(Part 2) Top products from r/NCSU

Then definitely go for it.

Pick up (or get it from the library) a copy of Introduction to Flight by John Anderson (you can also get the international version on ebay for like $40-50). It was (is?) the book used in MAE 262, which would be your first aero specific class. It's actually a useful text even if it's not still used. We ended up looking up a lot of things in it during senior design.

Regardless of which major you end up in, get involved with a club like the Aerial Robotics Club, Rocketry, AIAA, ASME, Wolfpack Motorsports. They all look good on a resume, especially if you end up in a leadership role, and they're also lots of fun and a great way to put what you've learned into practice and a way to learn things you wouldn't learn in class. ARC and Rocketry would also be useful for aero senior design.

Also, get a co-op or internship as soon as possible and keep getting them until you graduate. They help a lot when looking for a job.

If you end up in aero, AIAA meetings are a great place to meet and network with people from industry. They have speakers fairly often and sometimes the speakers are there specifically to recruit.

Good luck with whatever you choose!

The E101 "handbook" is made by NC State, so yeah, that's only going to be on the bookstore. That thing was useless though, and I'm pretty sure I just threw it away.

For EC 201, you might have been told to buy a custom book. I did and my friends who took it also did. When the teacher makes a "custom" book, you have to buy it through the bookstore. You also can just buy the standard version, but the organization of chapters may be different (and often, some chapters are taken out of from the standard version). But then again, since the professor usually removes stuff, it may actually end up cheaper to buy the custom one.

As for your Calc 3 book, is this the one who were told to buy: http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Concepts-Contexts-Stewarts-Series/dp/0495557420/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376233469&sr=8-1&keywords=stewart+calculus+concepts+and+contexts. That's the one I used last year. Not sure why you couldn't find that.

But for future reference, don't buy your books before classes. I did freshmen year and it was a mistake. If you are reasonably smart, you will never open your EC 201 textbook. I only used my Calc 3 book a couple of times as well. I did great in both classes and could have done so without the books easily.

There are a few engineering folks in there from time to time. It will be very heavy on research and behavioral methodology. Not much math at all (though you could vary that individually depending on your project). I think it would be valuable to an engineer and would certainly broaden your skillset in a meaningful way.

Here is a classic by Don Norman, The Design of Everyday Things. It's not strictly human factors, but gives a palatable insight into how HF researchers approach problems.

> I’m sorry

I forgive you. It was an event we had here from the writer and illustrator who brought us toni the tampon. Theres even a coloring book!

Not an ncsu student (wtf am I doing here).

What you need to do is be very very dedicated throughout the summer session and resolve yourself to study everyday. I dont know if you are a premed of some kind or if you are content with leaving with a C. Either way, you need to go through your textbook while in the class, and do EVERY problem in the chapter and the problems at the end of the chapter.

You may read this as over kill, but when I took the class I had already read the first 3-4 chapters before the class started. I left with an A in both I and II.

If you need extra study material, I suggest these:

Textbook (best organic textbook imo):

http://www.amazon.com/Organic-Chemistry-David-R-Klein/dp/0470917806

A second language book (DO NOT USE THIS AS A SHORTCUT TO LEARN WHY THINGS HAPPEN):

http://www.amazon.com/dp/111801040X/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_2?pf_rd_p=1944687462&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0470917806&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1FXC7SNT8XJA6F816TAJ

reply if you need anything else. I dont know anything about feducia or the course itsself. I do know organic though

I was a freshman in 08 as an engineer (graduated now). I forget what our summer reading was, but I never heard of it prior to moving in, never read it, and still got my A in Eng101 and it was never mentioned. I may have gotten lucky. If your summer reading is mentioned in classes, I doubt it would be in E101, but instead your required general electives like Eng101.

However, sorry if I'm wrong, but it sounds like you're awfully peeved about the cost of the book. Is this book it? If so, if you're upset about $13.63, just wait until your calculus book. Or physics clickers. Or every other cost associated with college.

My advice - pay the $13.63, read the book, and be ready to start your college career off on the right foot. Engineering isn't easy, so making sure you do well in your first classes is critical in cementing that GPA before later classes that are far more difficult.