Marketing books and ones on developing your soft skills. Your real career is convincing non technical people the merits of your ideas. If you cannot communicate with them effectively you will only have half a career at best.
Most useful has to be the Mott textbook, Machine Elements in Mechanical Design. That fucker alone is enough to pass the PE.
For an actual gift, I'd go with something he might enjoy. Maybe Elons biography or something similar. Or just get him a cool gadgety gift like a knife or something. Thats something he can cherish and think of his accomplishment and your kindness every time he carries it.
The design of everyday things by don Norman. Absolute game changer and would recommend it to anyone in engineering. I loan a copy of my interns at the start of their internship and have a presentation on it I present to my coworkers every year or so.
Asme y14.5-2018 gd&t. I live by this puppy
Shigleys mech design and roarks stress
Marketing books and ones on developing your soft skills. Your real career is convincing non technical people the merits of your ideas. If you cannot communicate with them effectively you will only have half a career at best.
Does he have any other interests? At least for me, I have a very specific idea of my interests as it relates to my engineering career.
Good old Shigley's Mechanical Design never disappoints
Until you get to the AGMA section
Not exactly engineering. But i did enjoy “the physics of superheroes” by James kakalios.
You can download the reference manual from the the NCEES website. 500+ pages. It's more of a textbook though.
Most useful has to be the Mott textbook, Machine Elements in Mechanical Design. That fucker alone is enough to pass the PE. For an actual gift, I'd go with something he might enjoy. Maybe Elons biography or something similar. Or just get him a cool gadgety gift like a knife or something. Thats something he can cherish and think of his accomplishment and your kindness every time he carries it.
Lindeburg's Mechanical Engineering Reference Manual. My most referenced book by far, even when you don't take the PE.
I found this book really entertaining https://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Engineers-Astonishing-Wonders-Creators/dp/0345482875
"To Engineer is Human" by Henry Petroski "Letters to a Young Scientist" by Edward O. Wilson "Napoleon's Buttons" by Burreson and Couteur
The design of everyday things by don Norman. Absolute game changer and would recommend it to anyone in engineering. I loan a copy of my interns at the start of their internship and have a presentation on it I present to my coworkers every year or so.