Notes to a Young Engineer

Name: Notes to a Young Engineer
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By: Guru Madhavan

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Hardcover | 13 April 2027

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20.3 x 13.6

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In Notes to a Young Engineer, Guru Madhavan charts what it means to be an engineer in a human world-and a human in an engineered world. Organized around twelve maxims that move from technical mastery toward civic prudence, he summons an ensemble of engineers who turned their craft toward larger purposes: one who turned a church meeting's chaos into parliamentary procedure; another who designed wheelchairs from his own disability; and a filmmaker trained as an engineer, who ran his plots like clotheslines.

Part field notebook, part manifesto, meditative and practical in equal measure, the book maps the space between intention and consequence, where discernment carries more weight than data. It connects nature and human nature, duty and purpose, logic and psychologic—and the wisdom of relating before rationalizing.

A small book for constructive engagement with the world.

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