• Question: What subject is mostly needed in engineering?

    Asked by 842sptm52 to Ollie on 8 Mar 2018.
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      Alexander Burke answered on 8 Mar 2018:

      Depends on the type of engineering you’re interested in! In my opinion, I would say that maths would be the most useful subject in all types of engineering. You don’t need to be an absolute genius in mathematics to do well in engineering, you just need a good grasp of the basics =). I would ask this question to each of the engineers here… we all do very different types of engineering and you would get very interesting answers!

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    Guy commented on :

    You *always* needs maths to do engineering, at least some of the time. Sometimes, you can’t solve a problem any other way; sometimes it’s just so much faster to be good at maths.

    Example: I’m a bit rubbish at maths by the standards of most professionals. I spent all of yesterday puzzling out a problem with vectors that I should have solved in 15 minutes. I could still do the work, but because I lost a day I’ll have to make up the time at the weekend. Having the maths skills saves you work and makes more time for the fun stuff.

    Physics is the other subject that matters most. Most forms of engineering need directly a grounding in physics. Software engineering *doesn’t, technically, but science teams often won’t employ software people unless they have some background in physics.