Reading List
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Quality Engineering and Quality Management
- Juran, The Quality Control Handbook
- Juran, Quality Planning and Analysis
- Aquayo, Dr. Deming: The American Who Taught the Japanese About Quality
- Walton, The Deming Management Method
- Walton, Deming Management at Work
- Peters, In Search of Excellence
- Peters, Thriving on Chaos
- Gabor, The Man Who Discovered Quality
- Juran, Quality by Design
- Juran, Juran on Leadership for Quality
- Feigenbaum, Total Quality Control
- Deming, Out of the Crisis
- Crosby, Quality is Free
- Dobyns and Crawford-Mason, Quality or Else
- Ishikawa, Guide to Quality Control
- Scholtes, The Team Handbook
- Imai, Kaizen: The Key to Japan’s Competitive Success
- Imai, Gemba Kaizen
- Campanella, Principles of Quality Costs
- Besterfield, Quality Control
- Russell, Quality Audit Handbook
- Pennella, Managing the Metrology System
- AIAG, The Supplier Seven Pack (QS9000)
- ISO/TR 10017: Guidance On Statistical Techniques for ISO 9001:2000
- Blake and Mouton, The Managerial Grid
- Scherkenbach, The Deming Route to Quality and Productivity
- Senge, The Fifth Discipline
- Blanchard, Raving Fans
- Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- Britz, Improving Performance Through Statistical Thinking
- Roberts and Sergesketter, Quality is Personal
- Katzenbach and Smith, The Wisdom of Teams
Six Sigma
- Breyfogle, Implementing Six Sigma
- Pande et al, The Six Sigma Way
- Pande et al, The Six Sigma Way Team Fieldbook
- Eckes, The Six Sigma Revolution
Lean
- Womack, Jones, and Khoo, The Machine that Changed the World
- Womack and Jones, Lean Thinking
- Hammer and Champy, Reengineering the Corporation
- Liker, The Toyota Way
- Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, Ltd., Poka-Yoke
Science and Engineering History
- Kuhn, Structures of Scientific Revolution
- Sagan, A Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
- Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From
- Hoffman, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth
- Isaacson, Innovation
- Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
- Clark, Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
- Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
- Winchester, The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
- Moss, The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner
- Jahren, Lab Girl
- Isaascon, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
- Feynman, Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman!
- Feynman, What Do You Care What Other People Think
- Wulf, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World
- Kanigel, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
- Shetterly, Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race
- Oresekes and Conway, Marchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
- Specter, Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives
- Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle
- Bird and Sherwin, American Prometheus:The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Costa, Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace
- Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
- Dawkins, The Ancestors Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life
- Mahon, The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell
- Ulam, Adventures of a Mathematician
- Marx, The Voice of the Martians
- Nassar, A Beautiful Mind
- Farmelo, The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
- Fossey, Gorillas In the Mist
- Sobel, Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
- Sobel, Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
- Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist
- Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Chevalier, Remarkable Creatures
- McGrayne, The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes’ Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
- Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
- Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
- Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Case Studies
- Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow
- Taleb, The Black Swan
- Gigerenzer, Risk Savvy
- Taleb, Fooled By Randomness
- Ingrassia and White, Comeback
- Kanter, The Change Masters
- Kidder, Soul of a New Machine
- Feynman, What Do You Care What Other People Think?
- Gladwell, The Tipping Point
- Sobel, Longitude
- Rich, Skunk Works
- Pohl, Chernobyl
- Norman, Design of Everyday Things
- Crichton, Airframe
- Goldratt, The Goal
- Boyett et al, The Quality Journey
Math and Graphics
- Salsburg, The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century
- Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
- Tung, Topics in Mathematical Modeling
- Silver, The Signal and The Noise
- Strogatz, The Joy of X
- Peterson, The Jungles of Randomness
- Casti, Searching for Certainty
Design of Experiments
- Montgomery, Design and Analysis of Experiments
- Box, Hunter, and Hunter, Statistics for Experimenters
- Hicks, Introduction to Design of Experiments
- Neter, Kutner, Nachtsheim, and Wasserman, Applied Linear Statistical Models
- Bhote and Bhote, World Class Quality: Using Design of Experiments to Make It Happen
- Mathews, Design of Experiments with MINITAB