The Following is a booklist from Mechanical Engineering Magazine:
- Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas by James Adams
- FLying Buttresses, Entropy, and O-Rings: The World of an Engineer by James Adams
- Engineering and the Mind’s Eye by Eugene Ferguson
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman
- The Existential Pleasures of Engineering by Samuel Florman
- Structures: Or Why Things Don’t Fall Down by J.E. Gordon
- The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
- The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman
- Invention by Design: How Engineers Get From Thought to Thing by Henry Petroski
- To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert Pirsig
- What Engineers Know and How They Know it:Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History by Walter Vincenti