Principles to be followed in life - for engineers, and for everyone who lives in the world that engineers have made.
In his book Notes to a Young Engineer, Guru Madhavan outlines what it means to be an engineer in a human world, and a human in an engineered world. The book is based on twelve rules that move from technical mastery to civic wisdom, and evokes a group of engineers who have employed their craft to serve higher goals.One turned the chaos of the church meeting into parliamentary action; another designed wheelchairs out of his own handicap; and a filmmaker trained as an engineer, running his plots like clotheslines.
Combining field observation and data, this book is both reflective and practical, and maps the relationship between intention and outcome, where differentiation has more weight than data. It connects nature and human nature, duty and purpose, logic and psychology, and the wisdom of communication before justification.A little book for constructive interaction with the world.
