The best study aid you'll ever have for all three semesters of Calculus.

Don't get the easy outline. Stick with the old reliable outline. It will get you through both semesters of freshman engineering physics.

If you think you know probability & statistics, working the problems here will verify your assessment.

If it's been awhile since you had chemistry, this short teaching guide will get you up to speed.

I've used a copy of this reference since I got started with Matlab. It's very good for beginners who need to look up how to do general tasks such as write a function using variable arguments, perform plotting, or figure out how to shoe-horn a problem into Matlab that doesn't really seem to fit the Matlab paradigm of everything being a matrix.

For learning Java, there is no better book. It starts from the beginning and explains matters in a straightforward manner. Java makes many things that C makes hard, such as networking and GUIs, quite easy. Also, kiss pointers goodbye.

Thermo is hard for two reasons. The equations are messy, and the properties are so abstract. Van Ness deals directly and only with the second problem. His discussion of energy functions and energy transformations just as rules between observables is very helpful.

The best of the undergrad electronic design books, from BJT to op-amp. It explains circuit design methodology in detail and tells you WHY you care about each aspect. Undergrad electronics will be one of your hardest subjects.

The basics of electric and electronic circuits. Goes hand in hand with the Art of Electronics book. Ventures into the world of linear systems & transforms as well as PSPICE.

The best text on linear control systems engineering. No coverage on non-linear control, but that is more of a graduate topic.

Oscillators & signal generation are not covered, but just about every other aspect of solid-state RF circuit design is: small & large-signal amplifiers, impedance matching networks, filters, Smith charts, "nonideal" characteristics of components at radiofrequencies & so on. The presentation is lucid & the info is eminently useful.

The programming side of robotics, featuring Java.

The best book on the language of VHDL and how to apply it for beginners.

A book on how to combine hardware to produce an embedded system.

One of the tortures they make EE students go through is to do stuff with Autocad. In my day we had to do drafting by hand. This book is a good place to start.

Unlike many texts on straight economics, it is not just filled with narrative. It has many well-explained formulas and examples using those formulas throughout. The numerous exercises included throughout the book involve open-ended problem statements and iterative problem-solving skills, which are the real-world skills you'll need on the job.

The best book for engineers on this subject, plus it provides the needed background material on random processes. Lots of examples and detailed explanations.

Provides real code on how to do DSP routines. Instead of thinking that you need to go to the hardware store and buy a handful of butterfly units when designing an FFT, you'll see how to code one up in C.

Lots of people really HATE this book. That will probably be the case if it is your main text. As a supplement to Tannenbaum and a source of applied instruction it is excellent.

Don't neglect the personal stuff. One of the reasons I'm 50 years old with three MS degrees and sitting in the middle of cubicle world with the new hires is that, even though I know the technical stuff, I am the most socially backwards geek you'll ever meet. Learn from my failures.