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Engineering Books to Read for Developing Skills in 3 Areas

Here's the 3 areas an engineer reads books for:

  1. Engineering Technical Skills

  2. Engineering Soft Skills

  3. Engineer as a Person

For each area listed above they can be broken down into the following subcategories.


Engineering Books for Technical Skills

Subject Matter Expertise, Technology, Industry, Meta Engineering

Engineering Books for Soft Skills

Management, Business, Leadership, Communication, Innovation

Engineering Books for Engineers as a Person

Career, Life Balance, Success, Personal Finance, History, Legacy


Every skill that you obtain throughout your career you gain through experience and study, as you continue you have 2 main drivers for which skills and areas you improve. That is you, the engineer and your ambition, and the other is your company for minimum skills requirements for you to perform your job.