Suggested reading

If you’d like to expand your awareness of Engineering, take a look at our reading suggestions. (Don’t worry, it’s not compulsory!)

Mechanical Engineering

• Benham, Crawford & Armstrong: Mechanics of Engineering Materials
• Cengel, Turner & Cimbala: Fundamentals of Thermal-Fluid Sciences
• Cenfel & Boles: Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach

Electrical and Electronic Engineering

• Frenzel: Principles of Electronic Communication Systems
• Hammond: Electromagnetism for Engineers: An Introductory Course
• Hambley: Electrical Engineering: Principles and Applications

Year 1 Mathematics

• Stroud & Booth: Engineering Mathematics

General reading

• Fry: Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine
• Gordon: The New Science of Strong Materials: Or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor
• Krauss: The Physics of Star Trek

If you are interested in programming:

• Banzi & Shiloh: Make: Getting Started with Arduino

If you are interested in design:

• Budynas & Nisbett: Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design