

Reading List
Fall 2001
Required:
Ferguson, Eugene, Engineering and the Mind's Eye, MIT Press,
paperback, $12.95.
Other books of interest:
- Ashby, Michael F. and David R H Jones, Engineering Materials 1,
Butterworth-Heinemann, paperback.
- Brand, Stewart, The Media Lab, Penguin Books, paperback, $15.95.
- Drexler, K. Eric, Engines of Creation, Anchor Books, paperback,
$12.95.
- Gordon, J.E., The New Science of Strong Materials, Princeton,
paperback, $14.95.
- Salvadori, Mario, Why Buildings Stand Up, W.W. Norton, paperback,
$10.95.
- Petroski, Henry, Invention by Design, Harvard Press, $24.95.
- Florman, Samuel, The Civilized Engineer, St. Martin's Press,
paperback, $10.95.
- Bucciarelli, Louis, Designing Engineers, MIT Press, paperback,
$12.50.
- Van der Ryn, Sim, The Toilet Papers, Ecological Design Press,
paperback, $10.95.
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Dept. Chemical Engineering
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