Things to learn before going to College of Engineering?

<p>A decent regular high school physics course (e.g. PSSC book/curriculum, if they still use that) should be sufficient physics preparation for college physics that engineering majors take. Of course, the college physics courses also use calculus, so you need to be ready to take calculus in your first semester (meaning that you should have completed at least precalculus and trigonometry in high school; if you score a 5 on the AP calculus test, you may be able to start in a more advanced math course, though you should review the college’s final exams in the courses that you consider skipping before making your decision on that).</p>

<p>Some of your majors also require college chemistry, for which high school chemistry is often specified as a prerequisite.</p>

<p>Many computing courses for engineering majors focus on MATLAB use (GNU Octave is a free program that is similar). A short course on MATLAB is here: [Introduction</a> to MATLAB | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | MIT OpenCourseWare](<a href=“http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-094-introduction-to-matlab-january-iap-2010/]Introduction”>http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-094-introduction-to-matlab-january-iap-2010/)</p>

<p>If you want to learn computing from a computer science perspective, you may want to check out this classic book: [Welcome</a> to the SICP Web Site](<a href=“http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/]Welcome”>http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/)</p>