If you don’t have at least 4 pages of math in your papers, you’re not a real engineerTM
But engineers just let computers do all the maths!
Software engineers*. Computer scientists are concerned with the math behind computing and are mostly found in academia. Software engineers generally have a foundational knowledge of computer science they combine with software engineering principles to create robust software. Generally software engineers do have computer science degrees though.
They share a similar relationship as engineers and physicists.
I think you’ll find that the line between “computer scientist” and “software engineer” is rather blurred.
See, I wanted to major in math over engineering because engineering has less math. My husband is an engineer and he does very little math on a daily basis. The software does all the calculations when he runs simulations.
No disrespect but that sounds like an analyst to me.
Engineers build and analysts run.
I am prepared to be 100% wrong for other domains and regions then I am familiar with
Isn’t that true for most workplaces though? You’ll end up using some tool that automates much of the heavy lifting and a lot will be meetings and managerial tasks anyways. When you design products you usually have engineers of many different fields that need to work together so lots of it is just talking about how to get it to work together.
For any applied math jobs, which is probably IT related you’ll have the same issue.
I mean bio or chem engineering will def have a lot less maths.
People often don’t understand that math is pretty much in all fields of STEM. For example students at my university start chemistry thinking they will be at most balancing chemical reactions or calculating concetrations, but then differential equations and linear algebra starts. During my first year about half of the students failed the introductory physics course.
Still don’t get why you need maths for computer science. Like programming originated in maths or something? Maybe they just use it to filter people out. Seems to work quite well then.
Are you… Serious? Because computers are math machines. That’s literally their purpose. If you’re programming anything lower level than a JS app then you need to understand what’s going on closer to the hardware. CS is a pretty general field and I appreciate the math classes that I’ve taken so far because I am planning to go into embedded systems and therefore will be actually using a lot of it.
I have a family member who studies fish at a post doc level. He had to learn a bunch of calculus and statistical analysis just to be able to actually make use of the data they collect. Anyone who wants to design and publish research has to have a pretty good grasp of a lot of math.
Anyone who wants to design and publish research has to have a pretty good grasp of a lot of math.
I invite you to have a look at some of the studies, when there is a new “pyschologists found out that your poor sleep comes from your mom having an affair with your goldfish” style headline. Then you find out they asked like 30 people they got from an online survery or so.
Architecture was moved to a STEM field in 2019. I haven’t had trouble with math, but due to the lack of exposure to it in architecture, I didn’t do good on the math exam needed for stem fields lmfao
As civil engineers we used to joke that architects are mostly artists and wouldn’t know what they are doing.
There is some brilliant architects that do know their physics for building design and construction, but they seem to be far and few in between.