Interview: Glenn Vanderburg on engineering

Mentioned One of Glenn's talks on engineering. The first part of Hillel Wayne's interviews of people who've "crossed over" to software from "real" engineering. It's really good. Herbert Simon, The Sciences of the Artificial, 1969 Fredrick Brooks, Jr., The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist, 2010 David L. Parnas and Paul C. Clements, "A Rational Design Process: How and Why to Fake It", 1986. The Neal Ford talk about constraints was taken down from YouTube because Protecting Intellectual Property by removing a whole talk that uses a short clip is far more important than Mr. Ford's ideas. Glenn's other recommendations: What Engineers Know and How They Know It: Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History, by Walter Vincenti Engineering and the Mind’s Eye, by Eugene S. Ferguson Definition of the Engineering Method, by Billy Vaughn Koen A number of Henry Petroski’s books shed valuable light on the actual practice of engineering: To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America (this is quite different from the others, but by telling the real, non-idealized tale of how so many great bridges were built — including several disastrous failures and many other near failures — this book was instrumental in helping me understand how inaccurate the common stereotype of engineering really is) Credits Image of double effect distillation chemical plant via Wikimedia Commons. User:Luigi Chiesa, CC BY 3.0. Cropped by Brian Marick.