Which types of engineers use high level math?

<p>I Lovee math and prefer it over sciences. Which engineers use the highest levels of math and use math more than sciences. Do electrical/ computer use a lot of math?</p>

<p>I know aerospace and electrical use a fair bit of math from experience, and I have heard almost as much of mechanical too. In reality, I think most degrees have minimums that you have to learn, but in practice it will depend on your specialty in your field - for example, in EE the specialties of signal processing, electromagnetics, and antenna design are all mathematically intensive.</p>

<p>As a caution, industrial is often noted as one of the easiest fields of engineering, especially mathematically… but that is only at the undergraduate level, as graduate IE can be very mathematical.</p>

<p>Although electrical engineering has plenty of math, computer engineering has very little.</p>

<p>Depends on what you define as high level math. If you’re talking, calculus, discrete mathematics, differential equations, then you can find many engineers who actually use that kind of math on a day-to-day basis. </p>

<p>If you’re talking about “pure” math: no one actually uses it to do anything meaningful.</p>

<p>The communications branch of Electrical Engineering requires very advanced math. 20-30 credit-hours of graduate level math are required before you can begin to make serious contributions to the field from what I understand.</p>

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Isn’t that the definition of pure math? I thought if you were in a math department and someone found an application for your work you were immediately kicked over to the applied side!</p>

<p>is electrical engineering more math or physics?</p>

<p>Depends on the specialty. There are several areas that are physics-intensive, but signal processing (for example) is notably math-heavy. EE as a whole uses both.</p>

<p>It’s good that you like math, but it’s probably a little more healthy to be doing engineering for the application’s sake. When working on stuff, you should really keep the application in mind and not just do math for math’s sake. There’s no way that you can compete with the math guys on their home turf.</p>