🐯 Princeton Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering unofficial reading list, fall 2026
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| Freshman level | |
|---|---|
| Engineering in the Modern World MAE 102 |
• The Innovators, Trade: The Engineering Pioneers Who Transformed America by David P. Billington • From Insight to Innovation: Engineering Ideas That Transformed America in the 20th Century by Billington & Littman ◦ Power, Speed & Form: Engineers & the Making of the 20th Century by Billington & Billington |
| Sophomore level | |
|---|---|
| Thermodynamics MAE 221 |
• Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach by Cengel et al. |
| Junior level | |
|---|---|
| Structure & Properties of Materials MAE 324 |
• Materials Science & Engineering: An Intro. by Callister & Rethwisch |
| Matrix Structural Analysis & Intro. to Finite-Element Methods MAE 325 |
◦ An Intro. To Matrix Structural Analysis & Finite Element Methods by Prevost & Bagrianski |
| Origami Engineering MAE 327 / 556 |
• How to Fold It: The Mathematics of Linkages, Origami & Polyhedra by Joseph O’Rourke |
| Aircraft Flight Dynamics MAE 331 |
• Flight Dynamics by Robert F. Stengel |
| Graduate level | |
|---|---|
| Modern Control MAE 434 |
• Linear Systems Theory by João P. Hespanha |
| Graduate level | |
|---|---|
| Mathematical Methods of Engineering Analysis I MAE 501 |
• Mathematical Methods for Physics & Engineering by Riley et al. • Mathematical Methods for Physicists by Arfken et al. |