In this episode we discuss the top six apps for engineering students in 2017.
Hey 1% Nation, I'm Jake Voorhees and you are watching episode 031 of the 1% Engineer Show,
where we empower young engineers the rise of the top 1% of their career You guys are
way more fortunate than you realize.
When I was a student at university starting out 12 years ago there was no such thing as
smartphones.
Not even close.
In fact I started it in 2005 the first smartphone came out in 2007 and I personally didn't get
one so I was at the end of my graduate years so this was 2011.
So I went through six and a half years six years of university without having anything
like it.
So make sure that you're taking advantage of resources like these so you can crush it
in your student engineering career.
So get into it number one MathPixSolver.
This is hands down THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE FOR YOU GUYS.
You can take a photo of an engineering problem.
It scans the image so it's OCR optical character recognition and it will solve that problem
for you.
It will do derivatives.
It will do integrals.
It has two dimensional graphing functions three dimensional graphing functions.
This thing is just unbelievable.
So make sure that you try it out.
I think there may be a paid version as well but this thing is entirely free.
On the surface it's available for Android and it's available for iPhone.
I think most engineers are most likely going to be Android but I made sure that all these
apps in this review are both for Android and iPhone.
I think that's really important just to be diversified.
So download math picks all over for sure to Wolfram Alpha.
This app is considered the Wikipedia for engineering students has the ability to answer any engineering
student question regardless of whatever field you're in.
And as you can see there's lots of categories here from math to chemistry to physics to
specific engineering type problems and it will laid out exactly how you solve certain
very specific types of homework problems exam problems and project application.
So make sure you take advantage of this make sure you check this out and you're fully aware
of the resources on Wolfram.
And as you can see Wolfram also has a whole list of other types of apps so you can check
those out as well but this community this online database of support features for engineering
students is just unbelievable.
So go check it out.
Three check check is a platform to rant digital as well as physical textbooks it on to pay
the full price.
This is a big deal over four years.
Imagine the savings the average cost per semester on books is probably 500 dollars.
And some of these books can be even$200.
I remember my chemistry book was really big and super expensive so this awesome resource
beyond the textbooks support feature.
There's also tutor applications you can learn from other students.
There's pro versions where you can have paid tutors So go check that out make sure you
take advantage of all this.
I highly believe in tutoring for super hard classes like physics to calc two of you have
to take them to thermodynamics which super lucky for me as a civil engineer I did not
have to take that but make sure that you're paying for tutors guys.
It is a small price to pay little tiny price to pay in comparison to having to take a course
over again which happened to me I had to take calc 2 over again.
I did not have a tutor.
I do not believe Chegg was out when I was around so take advantage of that for sure.
For Evernote there's a reason why so many business professionals entrepreneurs and students
alike all swear by ever know it is the most popular No.
And clouds sink application.
You have the ability to keep your schedule straight.
All of your assignments your to do list your ideas on a whim so make sure that you check
it out.
There's two tiers of pro options.
I have no idea what is involved with those because I've never done it but check that
out.
I doubt any of you are going to be interested in that which shows you that this app has
a larger more serious professional user base as well.
So download Evernote guys use it.
Never miss a meeting never miss a class never miss an assignment again with Evernote 5 Coursera
course there is a free platform where you can take classes from top universities.
Some of those on the list are Stanford Penn Johns Hopkins du cetera.
And you could take college classes online for free and I highly suggest you do this
for challenging ones like computer science cow physics something that you can go through
Coursera even in a blitz fashion just get an idea of the material.
Just look at what the assignments might be like but it will give you an advantage during
summer break winter break even during a semester if you want to sort of peer ahead.
If you want additional practice problems but it's free.
It's from legitimate universities and they put them online for students like you to take
advantage of.
So check out Corsairs guys.
Stay tuned.
After this one because we do have a bonus put six is office lens office lenses a free
product within the Microsoft suite which allows you to scan documents physical documents and
have them in the cloud and have them on your phone have them up on your Google Drive.
You never have to worry about carrying stuff you're never going to miss an opportunity
if you go to the library or you're not able to actually read a book or for example like
me this is very practical.
We were allowed to peer into civil engineering senior design projects that were archived.
We weren't allowed to take them out.
So for you guys now you're going to snap photos of that stuff with your office lens app and
you can keep it forever for your reference.
You can use your friends material you can take snapshots of slides in class and it everything
up a little bit more unified than just a picture app on your phone.
You know you don't really want to be doing that for things like college classes things
like academics serious applications.
And here's the bonus round I'm going to suggest actually two more absolute I think you need
to check out if you haven't heard of Khan Academy yet it's another Coursera based community
where you can take courses for free and get a leg up get an advantage learn a little bit
more beyond the stereotypical classes that you're taking.
So check that out.
And the eighth one is Google Drive.
I love Google Drive.
You should be using Google Drive your teams you can edit stuff on the fly and see that
other people are editing even shows the cursor and someone's name and you can watch them
changing things so you could literally be on a Skype call on a Facebook chat group and
all be looking at the same document at the same time.
And one person is typing.
We're all working on different things within the same document at the same time and everything
is sinking to be in the cloud.
It has spreadsheets.
It has Google Forms.
It has maps.
It has presentations so you guys can take full advantage of this free service this is
what Google has done over time.
The democratization of products they have brought certain products to everyone so you
can have Word Excel presentation PowerPoint forms maps whatever you want for free.
So definitely use Google Drive guys.
So those are my top six apps for engineering students right now plus two bonus ones.
Campobello let me know which of these apps you already have and which one you're going
to download right now.
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