<p>I'm a ChemE student looking to complete a math minor. From what I've heard, minors don't really add much, if anything, to your "hire-a-bility", so I'm picking courses that have the potential to elucidate things I might come across during the day-to-day as an engineer. So this means I'm shying away from the theoretical and looking to take more applied and practical courses.</p>
<p>I have two electives available and right now I'm looking at taking "Applied Numerical Methods and Optimization" as well as "Mathematics of Finance". But I'm here to ask if anyone else had any insight as to what would be potentially useful in my career. Thanks</p>
<p>Depending on what you plan to do. I would take more practical ChE classes in engineering if you want to find a job right after college. Most chemical companies do not need their entry level engineers have more math than they already have. If you want to got to graduate school for a PhD, that is a different path.</p>
<p>Only get the Math minor only if you plan to go to grad school or if you love Math. I got my Math minor with my BS in ChE simply because I love Math.
If you had to choose between those two classes, pick Applied Numerical Methods and Optimization because that is more difficult to learn on your own than Mathematics of Finance.</p>
<p>^^ Mathematics in finance sounds like stochastic calc to me. This is a hell of a lot harder than numerical methods.
What does it cover?</p>
<p>That being said, numerical methods is probably more relevant.</p>