The key words here are probability and statistics, and you can probably swing a degree in this area in more than a few directions. As far as I know, there's not a lot of empirical science behind this kind of stuff That's my impression, anyway, and is based only on anecdotal evidence and reviewing a few undergraduate curricula. It's the lack of "physics" content behind the other two that makes me think those are probably the top contenders My master's degree was in applied math.
A lot of engineers in my specality do a lot of finite element work but I didn't. I was doing a lot of hand solutions, developing new analysis methods, etc.
After all, what you are doing is using math to describe the physics of what the hardware is doing. You have to understand the hardware in great detail to do that correctly. You need 20 credit hours or more of graduate-level math classes before you can make meaningful research contributions. I've never considered myself a math person throughout HS and into college, but I've found that I really enjoy the math that I do in CS.
Not liking HS math shouldn't necessarily scare you off from CS. But as a civil I use a lot of math but they are not hard at all, just calc and dfq. There are so many subdisciplines in each field using different types and amounts of math and absolutely none of us know enough about all of them to make that kind of call even if it could be made.
They tell us where we stand in the world, among our peers and even in our family. They tell us who's winning. The engineer uses them for the same reasons — by statistical analysis of the design, the engineer can tell what percentage of a design will need armor or reinforcement or where any likely failures will occur.
For the civil engineer, statistics appear as the concentration of rainfall, wind loads and bridge design. In many locations, engineers designing drainage systems must design for a or year storm in their calculations, a significant change from the normal rain concentration.
Calculus is used by engineers to determine rates of change or rates by which factors, such as acceleration or weight, change.
It might tell NASA scientists at what point the change in a satellite's orbit will cause the satellite to strike an object in space. A more mundane task for calculus might be determining how large a box must be to accommodate a specific number of things.
An engineer who designs packaging, for example, might know that a product of a certain weight must be packaged in groups of no more than 10 because of their weight. Using calculus, he can calculate both the optimum number of objects per box, plus the optimum size of the box. Satyajit 21 May All engineering degrees tend to have a lot of math content. Computer science and electrical engineering usually have a lot of abstract algebra.
Civil and mechanical engineering are usually more focused in numerical methods applied to the continuum mechanics equations. Read More. View all vote's. No Vote. No Up Vote. No Down Vote. Other Related Discussions. Which engineering has the most math? What math is needed for engineering? How much money can you make with a math degree? Which engineering has highest salary?
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