• Question: how much is maths involved in engineering?

    Asked by ethansheppard to Amanda, Ben, Dan, Gary, Samer on 19 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Gary Boorman

      Gary Boorman answered on 19 Jun 2013:

      For me, quite a lot. But I have textbooks on my desk with all of the useful maths in them – it saves having to remember it all.

    • Photo: Amanda Lewin

      Amanda Lewin answered on 19 Jun 2013:

      There is some but day to day you will probably have a spread sheet or simulation set up to do the real number crunching. It’s important that you know the basic principles tho.

    • Photo: Ben Drumm

      Ben Drumm answered on 20 Jun 2013:

      A fair bit tbh – especially at uni (where you get your qualification).

      I find I do less maths in my job than I did at uni, but if I’m doing a thermal or stress analysis of something I can spend a fair bit of time number crunching!

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