The Engineering Student Survival Guide is not your usual textbook.

The third edition of this wildly successful text provides information and strategies for engineering students to get the most out of their college education. From freshman orientation to senior year and beyond, The Engineering Student Survival Guide 3e covers topics pertinent and unique to all engineering students by answering questions such as:

- What are the ten surefire ways to tackle an engineering test problem when you are stumped? See Chapter 7.

- How do you balance life, school, and sanity? (Is caffeine the answer?) See Chapter 10.

- What can you do when your professor’s teaching style doesn’t match your learning style? See Chapter 5.

- Will an engineering job be like doing problem sets all the time? See Chapter 8.

Features

- Text is written in a humorous, student-friendly tone.

- Concrete, time-tested survival tips and strategies are provided for the engineering student.

- Boxed personal essays from many professionals are included.

- Original cartoons enhance the text’s content.

- Comprehensive appendices provide contact information for engineering, special interest, and honor societies, as well as material for creating a resume.

New to this Edition

- Expanded information for minority students, particularly foreign students and engineering students with disabilities.

- The section describing the central engineering disciplines now includes Bio-engineering.

- Considerations for students taking a web-based class.

- What to expect (and how to survive) a team project: forming, storming, “norming” and performing.

- The addition of cartoon strips by mechanical engineering cartoonist Jorge Cham of Piled Higher and Deeper. Piled Higher and Deeper humorously illustrates life as a graduate student engineer, and the younger siblings of the central characters drop in to our last chapter as they apply for grad school.

- Expanded material on writing for engineers including online resources especially for techies.

- Updated and pertinent information on the FE exam, GRE, salaries, engineering statistics and a whole lot more!