The book provides the fundamental concepts and competences that any student should have when joining an engineering degree at the university, disregarding his/her background. This can help students with very different backgrounds to achieve a common basic knowledge, which is necessary to succeed in any studies of engineering, and from where to build a solid analytic training.Despite the book is generic and valid to face any kind of engineering studies, the contents and proposed applications during the course are biased towards the field of transportation engineering, as these students are the main intended audience.The book is specially designed for those students starting any engineering degree at university level, and will be most useful for students without a strong background in mathematics and physics, or for those who need to refresh these basic concepts.