engineering major with least math

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<p>I know any type of engineering will have a heavy math load, but of the different types, which has the lightest load?</p>

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<p>probably civil, bio, or mechanical.</p>

<p>ECE, Aero, and Chemical are very math heavy</p>

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<p>I'd say Industrial Engineering.</p>

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<p>I would definately disagree with Industrial Engineering being light on math. From what I've seen of the IEOR program at Cal pretty much all the classes are very very math based. Lots of optimization, programming, probablity etc... I think a lot of people make false assumptions of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research because they dont fully understand what they do or what is entailed in the major.</p>

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<p>At my school - IME has less math than ME.</p>

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<p>Technical communication. lotsa writing though</p>

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<p>Industrial Engineering.</p>

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<p>At my school, Comp and EEs can skip Calc III. So I guess CoE and EEs? IEs have to take Calc I-III, Diff Eq, and Linear.</p>

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At my school, Comp and EEs can skip Calc III. So I guess CoE and EEs? IEs have to take Calc I-III, Diff Eq, and Linear.

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<p>I find it strange that they can skip cal3. I'm an EE and I'll take up to linear algebra like you mentioned.</p>

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<p>Biomedical engineering?</p>

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<p>Calc III is used extensively in Electromagnetics - which I would hope all EE's are required to take...</p>

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<p>"engineering major with least math"</p>

<p>Ok, if you are asking this it had better be PURELY out of curiosty. If not, quit whatever you were thinking.</p>

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<p>Comp Es can skip Calc III, not EE. Sorry.</p>

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<p>Agricultural and Biological Engineering has the least math.</p>

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<p>of all the engineers at my school, the EEs (myself included) have to take the most math, 5 semesters: up to Fourier and linear partial differential equations. i think the least is Industrial (and Computer Science, if you want to count that).</p>

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<p>I'm a ChemE, and my program only requires the three-semester calculus sequence and one semester of differential equations, totaling 15 semester hours of math. </p>

<p>We also have an IE program (for a little while longer) and they have to take the same number of math hours. Same goes for Aero, Civil, Mechanical and Metallurgical/Material.</p>

<p>Compare that to our electrical engineering program. It requires Calculus I/II/III, Differential Equations 1, Intro to Probability and Applied Matrix Theory, for a total of 21 hours. Our computer engineering program requires all that plus Discrete Math (for a total of 24 hours of math).</p>

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<p>Most engineering courses require atleast Calculus III if not differential equations so there is not really a way to get away from math if you want to do engineering. (unless it's engineering technology I guess)</p>

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<p>no even the engineering technology needs some good heavy math.</p>

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<p>I thought all engineers had to take up to differental equations and linear algebra. =X</p>