How hard is electrical engineering comapered to calculus I and II?

Answer 1

Electrical engineering and calculus are not mutually exclusive...this means that you cannot do much in electrical engineering without calculus.
For example, you can do basic first order circuit analysis with just algebra, but you need calculus to do anything complicated in electrical engineering such as transistor circuits, fields/wireless, and anything just about anything else.

I guess I would say electrical engineering is harder than calculus 1 or 2 because it requires calculus 1 and 2 plus other things like physics.

Answer 2

Most calculus you learn is way more than most engineers ever use. An engineering degree does more to teach you how to solve engineering problems than actually teach you techniques that will be useful 'on the job'. So you could say engineering is easier than calculus. But engineering requires an ability to visualize and handle complexity which calculus doesn't. An average project is much more work than any degree. They just aren't the same thing. Most people who can do calculus can handle the computational side of engineering.

Answer 3

i guess i would have to say it is harder, because many of the classes require you to know calculus in order to do well in them. this comparison is difficult to make, since calculus is a part of electrical engineering. many electrical engineering topics can be seen as applied calculus especially signals classes that use the fourier and z-transforms.

i do agree with chris that calculus is used much less in the real world. we use tables to do many of the calculations, allowing us to concentrate on real problems.