Is mathematics neccessary for engineering science?
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If you are asking if you will use calculus everyday, the answer depends on what type of engineering.  Some branches don't, some do.  You will need to understand the concepts in whatever branch of engineering or what they are saying won't make sense.  Schools in the United States do a poor job of teaching math, so you may as well figure that you will have to work hard to learn the mathematics, but you can and it will pay dividends.
713743
I worked in a research and development lab building electronic prototype production machinery - trust me - I used a calculator and a pencil much more than any of the other more conventional tools.\nI now work as a general contractor - and, once again, I'm using math all the time extensively to compute materials needed and materials cost as well as the actual building plans.\n\nGreat story on your link. Good for him!
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Trig is just one of those courses prior to specialization that most science/math students have to take.  Case in point, during my first yr mech engineering studies, I had to take geology.  As for aviation, trig is defifitely applicable.  It will used to calculate al types of parameters such as forces related to lift, drag and trajectory.
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Im going to MIT studying Aerospace Engineering, the courses are\nThis is first term stuff. But you dont have to take physincs and calculus together on the first term.\n\nAE engineering 1\nCalculus 1\nPhysics\n(minor subjects electives)\n\nBut yeah if your in high school make sure you take physics and calculus they are important.
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I have no idea about college requirements but I can tell you that math is the one subject you will continue to use over and over and over throughout your life. Take all the courses you can - especially if you're in engineering. A degree won't improve your ultimate paycheck but knowing how to add it all up and properly apply all you have learned will. Everyone can read and write well enough to get by in this world - just look around at all the "graduates" young and old who use improper grammer, can't spell, and who have terrible penmanship. English is nothing compared to Math. Keep up the good work!
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For an engineer you have committed an uncommon error -- creating a general rule based purely on a limited (and likely flawed)sample. \n\nIn your own words: "I have never met a computer programmer... who had any real engineering skills(or an real engineering degree)."\n\nIs not THE foundational principle of Engineering that only calculable, repeatable, verifable infomation should be the basis for decisions?\n\nI assure you there ARE plenty of people who "write code" that have REAL enginnering degrees, those degrees may be in the traditional engineering disciplines of ME, EE, CE, ChemE as well as Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, and other fields from schools as "hard core" as Georgia Tech, Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Purdue, Univeristy of Illinions, Cal Tech or others. Typically people with such skills are much more likely to be found in highly techincal fields, were their skills are more valuable. You certainly would want not the same person hacking together a website that you would trust to write the code that guides the Space Shuttle, manages doses of gamma radiation, or powers the internal workings of life-safety communication equipment.\n\nComputer Science is a field of study that has existed at the University level for over fifty years. While the logic contructs that are its underpinnings are shared by both fundamental mathematics and linguistics, its reliance on technolgy set it distinctly apart from those related fields -- just as chemistry & physics share many foundational tenants one deals primarly with the constituents of matter while the other deals with its motion/energy.\n\nVirtually all complex software can be reduced to a small decision tree, just all virtually all engineering problems can be reduced to simple calculations, yet I wonder if engineers who oversee pot hole repairs need to rely on as robust a set of calculations as those who construct bridges that span San Francisco Bay?\n\nThere ARE standards to become a Licensed Professional Engineer in CE, ME, EE, ChemE, and there are standards  for those interested in Computer Engineering as well. I suspect that the number of CEs that are LPEs far far exceeds those who are Software Engineers...\n\nRight now I know of no "search engine" that can tell me instantly how many engineers are in the US and the world. Further there is no simple query that I know of that would separate out those that are restricted to "computer code writers". I suspect that if and when such search engines and query facilites are built it will be by those who have a thorough knowledge of both Computer Science and Engineering...
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Engineering uses a lot of mathematical procedures - and with some physics background too i would have thought with a short training period you would have been an ideal candidate.\n\nI am a maths graduate and my husband an engineering graduate and there are always takers for people with those kinds of qualifications. (beats BA 'leisure studies' dont you think?)
975978
Biology, chemistry and math.
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Mathematics is the language of science.  It is how scientific models are defined and universally understood.
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if u like teaching, go be a math teacher in 7th grade or up. you wont have to be an all-around teacher\n\ngo for an engineer takes sci. and math u get to ride roller coasters and design them\n\ni cant think of too many other jobs that require math sorry
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Math is used all the time in the engineering sciences.  Many physical phenomena, including fluid flow, heat transport, and diffusion can be described by appropriate partial differential equations.  In order to solve these equations and make predictions, you need to be good at calculus.\n\nIf you limit yourself to addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, you would be stuck with linear models for everything.  This means that any more complicated relationship between two variables could not be modeled continuously, and you would never be able to extrapolate with any confidence.  Thus development of new technology would be strictly trial and error (and you wouldn't even have a good trial and error system without statistics).\n\nHang in there!  Get through that math.  You don't have to like it, but you will inevitably appreciate the developments that math has enabled.
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That importance is incalculable (without the aid of a computer!). Spacecraft and mission design, vehicle navigation, guidance, control and flight simulation need intense mathematical work that can only be performed by computers. There are just too many complex interactions among all aspects of a space mission for any number of unaided humans to keep in mind.
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In electronics, which is my specialty, determining the dynamic response of a circuit (with respect to time or with respect to frequency) often requires the use of differential and integral calculus.  In structural engineering, designing buildings or bridges to make them strong and earthquake resistant also requires calculus.  Certainly physics and mechanics rely heavily upon calculus.  I'm not sure about chemistry or biology.
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I am a Chemical Engineer.\nIt is some chemistry and a lot of physics.\nYou are trained to design chemical plants.\nIt is a lot of work and demands and aptitude in math.
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No, chances are you will not use any advanced math in your life, ever.\n\nHowever, math does help teach logical thinking, which is something you can use every day of your life, regardless of what job you eventually get or what you do.  If you can do logic, you can solve almost any problem, work your way out of any difficulty, and understand the flow of the world.\n\nDon't think of it as useless math.  Think of it as doing brain push-ups.
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Truth be told in my experience most engineers don't use calculus very often.  An understanding of calculus is required to find derivations for most formulas that are used.  But in practical application most problems are solved making assumption that simplfy problems to simple algebra.  One application used in practice is definte intergration ussually using a spreadsheet.
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B.Sc. with mathematics.