LibGuides: Engineering: Home

Purpose of this Guide

This guide serves as a launching point for students studying Engineering at Skyline College, although students from another field may find the resources presented here useful.

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Use this guide to find out about books and online resources for engineering, including ebook and physical items, journals articles, website recommendations, reference material, and databases containing subject-specific content.

New Books

Building the Apollo Capsules: an engineer's memoir of the moonshot program and its debt to Hispanic team members by Jim De La Rosa
Call Number: TL789.8.U6 A53194 2023
ISBN: 9781476687193
Publication Date: 2023
This firsthand account of the development of the Apollo 11 mission gives a behind-the-scenes look at the 1969 moon landing mission from an engineer's perspective. The technical problems and solutions of designing a capsule to carry three astronauts--Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins--safely to the moon and back are covered in detail from the author's point of view. The contributions of Latino personnel in the Apollo program are described.