Books play an important role in the life of every student. It is only through books that we get theoretical knowledge, which we can implement in our lives and achieve success. Books help us to understand from every aspect of our life. Be it an engineering student or a student of any field, college life is incomplete without books. Today we are going to tell you about some such important books which every engineering student must read and understand. These books will help you in every way to gain real life experience, overcome situations and achieve success.
10 Must Read Books for Engineering Students
1. Rich Dad Poor Dad
Rich Dad Poor Dad is a very popular book written by Robert T Kiyosaki. This book helps you to grow financial education, financial independence and wealth. Through this book, the author has explained every aspect of finance very well. In Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert mentions his two fathers and explains the different lessons they both taught and the consequences. Every engineering student must read this book. This helps them to understand finance in life.
2. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
This book is written by Stephen R. Covey. In this book, tips have been given to make a career and achieve success. In this book, the author has studied the lives of successful people around the world and has provided information about some of their important habits in this book. Through this book, you get to know about the good and bad habits of life and which habits are followed by successful people around the world. You get good knowledge of all these things in this book. Through this book, students can achieve success by changing the good and bad habits of their life.
3. Engineering And the Mind’s Eye
This book is written by Eugene Ferguson. In this book, the author has told about the present day engineering education. The author very well explains that engineering education that ignores the elements of non-verbal and intuitive thinking will produce engineers who will be detached from real world problems and unable to understand engineering objectives and equations . Through this book we come to know that every student should focus more on practical than theoretical knowledge.
4. Zero to One
Zero to One book is written by Peter Thiel. In this book, the author has told about startup and how startup can be made a successful business. This book shows that in today’s technological age, there is no reason to limit progress only to computers or Silicon Valley. As a result, it gives a positive note to the readers that progress can be made in any industry by creating something new and innovative rather than competing on ideas that are already in the market. Through this book, engineering students get a new direction of startup and help in making their own startups successful.
5. Getting Things Done
Getting Things Done is written by David Allen. Through this book, the author has told about doing things correctly. Any work is done with positive and negative thoughts. There is a world of difference between the work done with positive thinking and the work done with negative thinking. The author tells how any work should be done properly so that we can get success in that work. This book helps us to work with a positive attitude.
6. The Four-Hour Chef
This book is a very favorite book of engineering students. In this book, the focus has been on understanding different perspectives of the world. This book is based on the topics of learning new things to the students. This book plays a very important role in making the student self-improvement, self-realization and self-empowered.
7. Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs book is written by Walter Isaacson. Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs has been told in this book. This book presents the enticing tale of a CEO, the world will never forget. This book is the absolute best in terms of self-titled biographies. This book gives a student the knowledge to become great like Steve Jobs by achieving success on the problems of life.
8. Elon Musk: Tesla, Space X, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
This book is based on the inspirational life story of Elon Musk. Elon Musk is the CEO of SpaceX, Tesla and Solar City. He is a famous entrepreneur. Elon Musk faced many failures in his life but still he did not give up and achieved success and new heights with patience and courage. They say that one should not be afraid of failure. Rather work on it continuously and keep improving it.
9. Engineer to Win
The author of this book is Carroll Smith who was a famous Formula One racer. This book helps you muster the commitment and awareness to perform at a world-class level. This book will give you the mindset, attitude and skills required for your career. How a student can become a world class engineer has been given very well in this book.
10. The Design of Everyday Things
This book is written by Don Norman. In this book the author has described the design of the product and the problems related to it. The authors point out that truly effective and efficient designs play an important role in the transformation and development of the world around us. The design of any object acts as a communication channel between its user and the object. In this book, information has been given to design the object in the best way. Through this book, engineering students can understand the various processes of design in the best possible way.
All the books that we have given details in this article are very important books for every engineering student. Through all these books you get the knowledge to learn and understand many things in your life. All these books help engineering students to understand various aspects of real life and how to achieve success with patience and courage.