Is Engineering Right For Me?

Aimed at high school students considering engineering as a career, this video by the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences describes the unique features of engineering thinking and problem solving.

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[AdMiraLWafFleS18]

Really? "fuck math" is the top comment on an engineering video? way to show your smarts America

[Warghost1000]

@GunZTube1 Considering how many people (a large percentage of humans) have a problem with math, it makes ya wonder if we as a species were meant to know about it. I think a better way of thinking about math is that it's going to undoubtedly be responsible in propelling humanity faster up the evolutionary scale. Words, literature, and speaking can only do so much to enlighten us, as social tools. Math allows us to think like machines, and then make machines to assist us think.

[quaditz]

@AdMiraLWafFleS18 Well, even if you love maths at school, you will hate it as student :D

[Warghost1000]

@rygor42 Of course you don't. But that's okay, you couldn't even accurately estimate if I am a male/female based on my avatar and username. Again, book smarts don't equate to common sense, as you've clearly displayed. I'm sure there's a decent reason why you may have assumed I might be female, considering my YouTube name is Warghost. But, I digress. My point still stands: humans are becoming more mathematical, which will affect the path of our evolution.

[rygor42]

@Warghost1000 I don't believe that you know what you are talking about, sir/madame.

[34ballerific]

@Warghost1000 The point is to solve problems not just compute answers.

[chroniclerofthe70s]

@djr4evryone Electrical Engineering has more mathematics.

[chroniclerofthe70s]

Engineering started without science. Engineering Programs began incorporating basic science in order to survive as a profession. If you look at the curriculum of engineering programs throughout the last half decade, more basic sciences and mathematics were included. The reason, without the progressive basic knowledge of the basic sciences engineering would have been obsolete by the mid 1960s. Most engineering programs today look fragmented physics and chemistry degree programs.

[chroniclerofthe70s]

@cjn9999 Bullshit. Most successful individuals in many walks of life were not engineers. Second, Mathematics and Physics in are true fields of problem solving. Engineers take what has been tested and often modify existing technologies which is why technology and engineering principles often become outdated and obsolete such as in electrical engineering. Engineering programs are frauds. Any scientist can design but an engineer without basic science can't do shit.

[djr4evryone]

@thissmoothie To be honest, I'm not really sure. I'm in chemical engineering and it's a common misconception that there is less math in it, when in fact, it has just as much as the other engineering majors. I would probably say industrial systems but I'm not really sure.

[djr4evryone]

@ThyrmBloodaxe That's wrong. Chemical has less physics than the others but not less math. Nuclear I'm not so sure of.

[ThyrmBloodaxe]

@thissmoothie maybe chemical/nuclear. those are more chemistry and physics i think. imo physical and chemical equations are more fun.