<p>Part of the reason that people don’t go into engineering is that, as several posts on this thread illustrate, many people believe that you have to be some kind of math god to do it, and that while other intellectual abilities might be learned, math is innate and only a few people can really do it.</p>
<p>Really, none of this is true. The math classes required for engineering probably require higher-than-average ability, but nothing ridiculous, and people can improve their math abilities.</p>