So are you saying that they don’t actually know why the relationships are the way they are? Because that’s gonna drive me crazy. I need to know why everything before i even look at an equation. I can handle a certain amount of algebra i think but if all being an engineer is is solving calculus problems then that sounds boring and i’ll pass. I imagine it as more a lot of thinking about and experimenting to find a particular shape or concept you could use for whatever you’re designing and then using calculus to figure out the optimal dimensions and what not.