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Asked by ethansheppard to Amanda, Ben, Dan, Gary, Samer on 19 Jun 2013.
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Gary Boorman answered on 19 Jun 2013:
Some aspects of engineering need more maths than others. I use quite a lot of maths, but a good friend of mine is a Civil Engineer and uses very little maths (he works designing railway stations).
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Amanda Lewin answered on 19 Jun 2013:
It depends really but as long as your interested and capable of learning the basic principles you will find that quite a lot of the actual maths is done by computers when your working as they can do it faster than you! However you have to know how the calculations work or you wouldn’t know if there was a problem with the computer programme.
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Ben Drumm answered on 20 Jun 2013:
It really helps if you are good at maths, as a LOT of what you will study in an engineering degree is maths based and I certainly use it in my job a fair bit…
However, there are other routes into Mechanical Engineering (not certain about the other disciplines) e.g. you could do a mechanical apprenticeship (making things using workshop machinery) and become a machining technician. Some of these guys then apply for jobs as Mechanical Engineers working in design offices. I would say that in my office it’s a 50/50 split between degrees vs apprenticeships.
I would recommend the uni route if possible though…
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