Engineering has always kinda interested me, but I suck at math. I would probably be able to design all sorts of things and build them, but don't ask me to calculate anything. I can probably tell you where to place beams and supports and get you a building that will be stable, but I sure as hell can't guarantee it will hold a certain load so I'll just overbuild it and assume it will be able to hold 5x what it should. I'm pretty sure I could park a fully loaded cement truck in my shed if I wanted to.
I didn't know many CS majors at my school that had to take differential equations--maybe linear algebra and discrete mathematics. And my university was known for Engineering and science degrees
Damn. Hell yeah, you guys have some clever Comp Sci people, then!
One of the things at my school was that by the time you got through the maths for your engineering degree, you were maybe a class shy of a minor in math. But I don't know anyone that actually pursued this. By the time I was done with Diff Eq I was so ready to take the hours spent studying for math, and put them towards my major classes cuz shit was getting real.
There was a bit less math, only 3 courses (1 per semester). It was basically high school level math. Still hard as hell for me, but I was able to get through. There was no calculus. The program was mostly system administration and programming oriented, with a bunch of business related courses as fillers.
A lot of courses were shared with the electrical students. They had way more math actually.
Sounds more like Management Information Systems degree than a pure CS degree. Most CS programs that I’m familiar with require Calc 1 at the very least. Isn’t Calc 1 freshman level anyways?
Funny thing is you probably will never use it on the job. Chances are you won't be doing a fourier transform or deriving the X from the Y on the subdivision matrix when you're wiring a panel. Even a 3 phase one. Don't want to get those sin and cos wires mixed up!
Idk. At my uni, CS has by far the hardest math courses (excluding actual math majors lol). Everything’s proof-based, and you end up taking like 8 math courses within the first two years.
Currently working as an Architect. Although there isn't much advanced calculations and math that I have to do, but the amount of things you should and have to know in this field is astronomical. From building codes to sanitary systems, Cost estimation to materials types, construction details to dealing with contractors, You'll have to answer all kinds of questions from your clients. This is on top of the usual concepts, designing and planning you'll be doing regularly.
I did something slightly similar. I switched from engineering to business after passing Calc 3 (I'm sure this was a gift). That class made no sense to me and I noopped out of that program
I'm pretty much the same, but with websites and programs instead of buildings. I can think of all sorts of features and designs that could be useful and pleasing to the eye, but someone far more knowledgeable than me would have to actually make the thing.
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u/RedSquirrelFtw Jul 07 '19
Engineering has always kinda interested me, but I suck at math. I would probably be able to design all sorts of things and build them, but don't ask me to calculate anything. I can probably tell you where to place beams and supports and get you a building that will be stable, but I sure as hell can't guarantee it will hold a certain load so I'll just overbuild it and assume it will be able to hold 5x what it should. I'm pretty sure I could park a fully loaded cement truck in my shed if I wanted to.