Interview: Glenn Vanderburg on engineering

14/11/2022 29 min Episodio 16
Interview: Glenn Vanderburg on engineering

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MentionedOne 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, 1969Fredrick Brooks, Jr., The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist, 2010David 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 VincentiEngineering and the Mind’s Eye, by Eugene S. FergusonDefinition of the Engineering Method, by Billy Vaughn KoenA 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 DesignInvention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to ThingDesign Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in EngineeringSuccess through Failure: The Paradox of DesignTo Forgive Design: Understanding FailureEngineers 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)CreditsImage of double effect distillation chemical plant via Wikimedia Commons. User:Luigi Chiesa, CC BY 3.0. Cropped by Brian Marick.