Well crud, I just had to deal with some wave equations and was reading about some of the materials research behind FINFET's for a paper, guess I'll have to turn in my engineer's card.
So we read math doesn't matter, engineers don't do science, and audiophiles don't care about either.
Wow.
I suspect many (but not all) of the engineers who said they've forgotten all math were joking. That said, whilst in design I used calculus fairly often, it was not daily, and a lot of design uses models that are essentially algebraic. There is such a huge range of engineering, of science in general, that I find such generalization useless and often insulting. The debate between science purists and engineers is never-ending. The definitions are spelled out in gov't docs but the line between basic research (pure science) and applied research has always been a bit blurry to me. I think engineers' ability to reduce pure science to practice should not be overlooked nor understated but of course I am biased. I thought I wanted to do pure research, and have done a bit, but discovered I like to build it and see it wiggle. Heck, I was ready to go to med school, but have noticed since that a lot of doctors could sorely use some engineering troubleshooting skills.
So we read math doesn't matter, engineers don't do science, and audiophiles don't care about either.
Wow.
I suspect many (but not all) of the engineers who said they've forgotten all math were joking. That said, whilst in design I used calculus fairly often, it was not daily, and a lot of design uses models that are essentially algebraic. There is such a huge range of engineering, of science in general, that I find such generalization useless and often insulting. The debate between science purists and engineers is never-ending. The definitions are spelled out in gov't docs but the line between basic research (pure science) and applied research has always been a bit blurry to me. I think engineers' ability to reduce pure science to practice should not be overlooked nor understated but of course I am biased. I thought I wanted to do pure research, and have done a bit, but discovered I like to build it and see it wiggle. Heck, I was ready to go to med school, but have noticed since that a lot of doctors could sorely use some engineering troubleshooting skills.