Re: Engineering and math

On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:34:41 +0100, "TuT"
<edwarddotwilsonatbaesystemsdotcom> wrote:

<hondgm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm an EE and taking classes for my Master's. And I am again realizing
my distaste for math. I don't hate it, I just really struggle with it.
Is this weird?

I have always really enjoyed designing and building electronic things,
and even daydream about it. I analyze everything beyond what I believe
is normal, and am always trying to figure out better/easier ways to do
things, and I'm employed as an engineer. Yet anything beyond
high-school level math drives me nuts. Is it an oxymoron to like
engineering but look at a complex math problem like it's written in
Chinese?


I think one of the biggest problems for engineering students is that the
maths is too often taught in abstraction, which makes it difficult to
understand what the point is much of the time. In my experience, it's often
been the case that the maths only started to make sense when I tried to
solve a real engineering problem with it.

[snip]

Thus the MIT method... math necessary for the engineering topic at
hand is taught (in a math class) at the same time.

So I'm still a wiz at Calculus though I rarely use it.

...Jim Thompson
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