many electronic devices for complex calculations. In what way do engineers use maths they learnt at school?

Answer 1

Does the phase gigo mean anything to you. Means garbage in garbage out. Every engineering problem has its own set of particular parameters. The computer can solve the equations but the engineer needs to be able to determine which equations apply to the particular problem.

Its a bit like using a computer to drive your car. If you go to the same place at the same time every day and your car is the only thing on the road its no problem to write a program to deliver you to work everyday. But if you want to go somewhere else or their are other cars on the road, maybe construction work, it suddenly gets a lot more complicated.

One of the ways engineers use math is to develop a math model of a process. If its a new process its unlikely there would be a canned program that exactly models that process. So I don't see engineers being able to dodge learning the math for the foreseenable future.

Answer 2

Sometimes they didn't learn maths in school and then had to go back to night school to learn the maths to do engineering.

I have to solve lots of equations at work mostly to do with radio wave signal strengths, losses in coaxial cables, power calculations, voltage losses many I use with formulas in Excel, lots on my calculators and I go through heaps of pencils.

Answer 3

They use math to calculate all of the things required for a particular design.


Doug

Answer 4

all part of engineering relates to phhsical phonamona than are all conected with mathematical relations derivative integral and so on once you study the course you need to understand them completly but when you become an engineer you calculate all them with computer