<p>Please list all the mathematics classes you took while you were a undergraduate engineering or CS student. Additionally, list the undergraduate degree you received and the year said degree was received. If you are in your senior year of undergrad, feel free to participate.</p>
<p>[Optional] </p>
<p>List the academic institution that awarded you the degree; the semesters you took each math class; your grade in those math classes (honor system); mention which class(es) you found most/least useful after undergraduate. </p>
<p>{Example}</p>
<p>Alpha Centauri University
BS, Mechanical Engineering 2012</p>
<p>Calc I* (A) 1st S
Calc II* (A) 2nd S
Calc III* (B) 3rd S
Linear Algebra* (A) 4th S
Differential Equations* (B) 4th S
Numerical Analysis (A) 5th S
Complex Variables (A) 6th S
Engineering Analysis (B) 7th S</p>
<p>"Numerical Analysis was very useful because {brief reason}" "Complex Variables was least useful because {brief reason}"</p>
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<li>You may list these as "Core5" if you took all 5 ; otherwise, specify.</li>
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<p>“Numerical Analysis was very useful because {brief reason}”
“Complex Variables was least useful because {brief reason}”</p>
<p>I need advice on two those as well. But I just read an article from the ACM Magazine last week. In biological IT area, numerical analysis is important.</p>
<p>When I’m actually doing work myself I mostly program, so my use of math is limited to the requirements of the project. This is often none at all or very little. Sometimes I go about doing things in clever ways but do not really use complex math. I’m not sure I’ve done any calculus since I graduated.</p>
<p>More and more of my time is spent telling others what to do and helping them get it done. I assume that in a year or so I probably won’t be doing any technical work at all… hopefully. I do not enjoy programming all day long very much.</p>
<p>I have not yet needed linear algebra. If I had to solve a system of equations (unlikely) I would just use MATLAB. I do use MATLAB from time to time but it’s usually more to make good looking plots than anything else.</p>
<p>I was never a practicing engineering per se (unless coding counts) but I found my math preparation (at least relative to other engineers, not math majors) to be a plus both in my software job out of school and in my past business career (very long and complex spreadsheets!). I never used abstract mathematics in my career but strong mathematical reasoning abilities have certainly helped. </p>
<p>University of Nebraska, Lincoln
BS, Electrical Engineering 1996</p>
<p>Calculus I - placed out via AP Calculus
Calculus II (A) 1st S
Calculus III (A) 2nd S
Matrix Theory/Lin Alg (B) 2nd S
Differential Equations (A) 3rd S
Numerical Analysis I (A) 3rd S
Advanced Calculus (B) 4th S - elementary real analysis course
Introduction to Algebra (A) jr year</p>
<p>graduate courses:
Complex Variables (A) jr year
Real Analysis I (B) jr year
Real Analysis II (A) jr year
Algebra 1 (A) sr year</p>
<p>Most useful course: Matrix Theory as I used my linear algebra knowledge both in my first job in industry as an embedded software developer and also when I got out of business graduate school and worked in consulting and VC. Numerical analysis has also been useful at times.</p>
<p>Least useful course: Real Analysis II. It was a painfully time-consuming graduate course whose material I never applied this knowledge anywhere else. The two course series took away my free time junior year and never gave me back anything in return. Algebra I was also very difficult (no exaggeration).</p>
<p>Yeah, I assumed linear algebra would be the most useful math for an engineer in EE or CS. I wanted to take more math classes at my school, maybe pick up a minor, but most people are saying that it won’t help much since none of it is used later. :(</p>
<p>Hopefully I will land a job where I will be able to use most of the math/science I learn in undergrad. I would be frustrated if I rarely get to use the math/science knowledge gained. It finally hit me that I will not be able to pursue a physics degree, so landing an engineering job where I get to do some applied physics is of the utmost importance.</p>
<p>^ Good luck finding that elusive job bro. Surely there are jobs that use applied physics but a job that uses all the math and science you learned is probably nonexistant. If you work in research perhaps you can invent your own math and science that you can use.</p>
<p>Jobs using all that math and science are not nonexistent (assuming you mean using them at a very in-depth level), but they are uncommon without a graduate degree. Most BS engineering jobs have some degree of using the stuff you have in class, but it isn’t extremely common to really do the heavy science/math unless you have more schooling.</p>
<p>Yes, so it seems. The highest level of schooling I’ll probably go for is a master’s. Hopefully that will open some interesting avenues here and there. Unlikely, though. I’ll probably end up working for some tech company designing garbage products, like, say, iPhones.</p>
<p>I’m a chemical engineering major, I’ve taken Calc 1-3 and DiffEQ so far.
I did a 12-week R&D internship over the summer and didn’t use anything I’ve learned in school except for maybe a paragraph-worth of Organic Chemistry.</p>