TOPS Engineering Computation Pad, 8-1/2" x 11", Glue Top, 5 x 5 Graph Rule on Back, Green Tint Paper, 3-Hole Punched, 100 Sheets (35500)

I works amazing for all my classes. Definitely will buy again.

I had been hesitating for a long time before finally rolling the dice and ordering this pad. As a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering, I have grown very particular with my writing utensils and media, almost to obsession. This engineering paper is the diamond in the rough, though, as it satisfies a very particular paper-palate and inexpensively. As far as my paper goes, I had always preferred the "cheaper" engineering computation pads that would pop up from time to time at my school's student store. With the more expensive "quality" pads, the sheets are thick enough to be solid yellowish on one side, nearly perfectly concealing the grid on the other side. Writing on that paper was basically like writing on a piece of printer paper with a yellowish tint, which I am sure is preferable for some. But here is why this (the paper for which this review is written) paper, and other "cheaper" paper is superior in my opinion:1) The paper is thinner, so when you stack two sheets the grid shows through to the front. It is faint enough that your pencil or pen is far darker in contrast, so your pencil or pen strokes won't be lost in lines while writing. But you can see the lines well enough to use them as guides for using it like notepaper with sub-college-ruled lines, and you have the vertical lines for if you need to draw diagrams or draw boxes around titles or diagram labels. For mechanical engineering it is great when drawing free body diagrams, sketching designs and diagrams, sketching out fluid systems, thermodynamic systems, graphs -- the list goes on.2) When done writing on the sheet and you pick it up by itself (recall in #1 we were writing on a two-page stack) the lines no longer show through as well (they nearly go away) so your notes or diagrams written using the lines as guides just appears as a neatly organized horizontal writing and diagrams or graphs with nice straight lines on yellowish paper.Nothing is flawless, however, and there is one con to speak of with this paper. The grid lines on the opposite side is dark enough to pretty useless unless you're writing in thick black ink. Some may disagree, but its brightness is near enough to that of a 0.5mm HB mechanical pencil that doing anything on the grid side just looks cluttered. BUT--This is a problem with all engineering pads I've used. Over the years I have (and you will) develop/ed two habits: 1. whenever I go to write, I tear two sheets off my engineering notepad so I can stack them and use the grid lines as writing guides, and 2. I only write on a single side of paper (note: your two stacked sheets are technically two sides).If you're on-the-fence about which pad to buy, I recommend trying this one.

Great paper for engineering class

It was what I was expecting.

Over time, I've become particular on the kind of paper i like to use. As an engineering student, I do lots of math calculations and drawing for different classes. Because of this, i primarily use quad ruled paper (grid paper). One of my main problems with this though is how it's so hard to find a paper where the grids aren't printed so dark that they make your notations hard to read. With all the dark grid lines and your writing , everything looks so busy and it's not easy to interpret right away.This paper was where that turned around for me though! Whats smart about it is how the grids are printed heavy on the back of each page so that you can see them through the front! They are visible enough to easily use as a guide for what you're doing, but light enough to not distract your eyes from what you're looking at when you're reading over. My only problem is that it's in the form of a tear off note pad, which is perfect if that's all you want. My holy grail of the stationary world would be to find this in a bound engineering computation book for writing my class notes in. I get a book from Staples that's as close to what i want that i can find, but i have yet to find this exact print in a bound notebook. It's for this selfish reason that i can only give 4 stars.

Doesn't feel icky like other papers. Very good.

This is the best quadrille pad I've gotten yet from Amazon. What I especially like is that I am most of the way through it and the cardboard has not separated from the pad, which has been a problem in the past with others.

Needed this for a class, this is the cheapest price I have seen. Everyone I talked to was shocked at how much I spent on this.