<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>I am accepted by Rice University and will be attended Fall’14 MS program in Mechanical Engineering. It has been 3 years since I graduated from college and I guess I should take a look at something in order to be prepared for grad school. What should I do before the lessons started? I am planning to take a look at Matlab, because I don’t remember anything.</p>
<p>Matlab would be a good start. Schaum’s Outlines study guides are also extremely helpful–good way or reviewing/relearning/quickly learning a bunch of topics, like statics, dynamics, thermo, fluid mechanics, linear algebra, differential equations, etc. You can use them to brush up on whatever areas you feel you need to refresh.</p>
<p>Find out what placement examinations, if any, are required by your program and review that material</p>
<p>Thanks so much. </p>