<p>i had to google to find that division sign</p>
<p>actually, i’ll be helpful. they mean calculus/differential equations. you don’t have to do proofs to do engineering.</p>
<p>Let’s talk about the norm - most graduates in civil engineering graduates don’t do skyscrappers. Many end up doing standard beams and columns design, or end up in project management. I didn’t say civil engineering is easy - if you do design skyscrappers, surely you’ll need to know many more things. But the post is on math requirement. If you know your undergraduate courses - physics, chemistry, math, mechanics, design, etc - inside out, it will serve you a long way in the industry.</p>
<p>Well, it’s more complicated in some ways to design a good-sized wooden house than a skyscraper (I’ve worked on both)! There is crazy roof geometry, and wood connection design is a bear. Lots of fun math and other issues to consider.</p>
<p>Thanks, MaineLonghorn. Too many people presume that structural engineering knowledge is scalable. It isn’t.</p>
<p>If the OP counts CS as engineering, steer clear of CS. You’ll be doing actual math in that…</p>
<p>Their is a vast difference in job requirements for engineers. Some jobs might use a lot of math, some very little.</p>
<p>Hi guyz m the new member to this wonderful community just amazing information u guyz exchanging!!!</p>
<p>Dears!!! I am good at maths i mean not bad and not so excellent, what do u think for is it suitable COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING.
But i love new techs and study about them professionally what do u think will it need lots of calculations and or will it be a blocked way for me…
Plz!!!</p>
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<p>This guy has NO CLUE what he’s talking about. Industrial engineering uses a LOT of math, probably more than most of the other engineering majors. EVERY SINGLE IE class I have taken or will take is almost ENTIRELY MATH. We don’t do physics, we don’t do chemistry, WE DO MATH.</p>
<p>You are SO WRONG.</p>
<p>I’d just like to add that transportation engineering is NOTHING BUT MATH.</p>
<p>To reply to the thread in general, all engineering majors use a ton of math. If you are afraid of math, you will be miserable in any engineering major. Don’t listen to what people here say is the major with the least math, because as the guy I quoted demonstrated, they don’t have a clue, and it won’t matter anyways.</p>
<p>Many of the problems you work on as a BS engineer will be of the closed-form variety, requiring, at most, good algebra skills. However, there are also times when real world problems don’t fit the text book “mold” and you’ll find yourself deriving your own equations to solve the problems… in which case, strong DiffEq and Calculus skills will be imperative.</p>
<p>Honestly though, if math is something you flat out hate, you really might want to consider a different field… Math is a big part of the engineering culture, and you can count on being surrounded by it pretty much all the time. If math is something you like, but aren’t good at, you can always take/re-take classes to improve your skills, or get a tutor.</p>
<p>Comments like this ****es me off as the poster doesn’t have a clue what civil engineering is about.</p>
<p>I’m the biggest proponent for the separation of structural engineering from civil engineering. 99.999% of structural engineers will agree with me on this. Which is why we all identify ourselves as structural engineers and not as civil engineers, while every other branch of civil, identify as civil engineers…there is reason for that. 90% of us have to get an advanced degree…master’s degree in structural engineering to understand it indepth. </p>
<p>A lot of people, and includes most engineering students continually say civil is easy, well yeah, it’s easy as long as you have no clue or have forgotten that they have a branch called structural engineering. It’s is a difficult discipline with lots of math. Typically you will observe, as in my time, pretty much the smartest civil major kids will go the structural route. I can’t think of any engineering program with great degree of maths in it than structural engineering. Structural engineers are the only engineers that can perform to an extent what Aerospace, marine, mechanical, ocean engineers and Naval architects do. Structural engineering is not only restricted to structures as most people think. It is a diverse discipline with applications spanning from aerospace to offshore, subsea oil and gas structures. Majority of Aerospace engineers I have come across have structural background. Substantial amount of Aerospace jobs as I speak right now( pls do the research yourself) require structural engineering background. </p>
<p>Structural engineering, which I think is probably the best engineering program one can get; it’s got prestige and money. People are aroused when I say I’m a structural engineer as opposed to when my friends say they are mechanical, chemical, civil e.t.c. Don’t be fooled by the ave. civil salary out there; believe me, it doesn’t reflect structural engineers. Straight out of college, I was started out with $70k…yes I was. Since getting my PE, I now make over $90k…no other civil makes that barely 5 yrs into their profession. My boss only has 13 yrs experience and only 37yrs, and makes over $130k. I’ll continue to say this, the day structural engineering is separated from civil, it will be way up there, on par, with nuclear, naval architecture and aerospace in terms of difficulty and prestige. Today, it hides under civil engineering banner and people have no clue what they do, what it entails; and even what they make. Structural engineering in Civil is akin to Reservoir engineering in Petroleum. Petroleum as a major isn’t that too hard but reservoir engineering is and they make a lot more than their counterparts( in drilling, production and completions); same goes with structural in civil.</p>
<p>A lot of engineers (including me) don’t use much math on the job. Nonetheless, EVERY engineering student must deal with a lot of math to get through the coursework. </p>
<p>Note - Most engineers do use their general problem solving skills a lot. Just not necessarily all of the math and detailed subject studies.</p>
<p>Such an old thread. Just looked up the OP, and she ended up going Biology, FWIW.</p>
<p>That post sure did strike a nerve with Structural Engineer lol</p>
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<p>Amen brother. You just wrote all of my frustrations about what people think about structural so well. </p>
<p>It annoys me somewhat that people think structural really easy and not full of math. In fact, structural has to take linear algebra at my school and mechanical doesn’t, but people think mechanical is more math based. What.</p>
<p>Carry on.</p>
<p>Engineers with the least math? I would say either railroad engineer, sanitation engineer, or unemployed engineer.</p>