>Just because you deal with people it doesn't mean you'll get paid more, you are just as replaceable as anyone. Being 'Chief' something doesnt automatically make you have a higher salary, you are just the link between HR and the eternal abyss of autism of actual engineering. Is not an automatic implication, but it helps a lot. Being able to deal with people means being able to not be an autist and do groupwork and get to higher positions easier. I said I like maths, not that I am good at it.
>Sounds to me you think you are good at math because you can compute integrals, derivatives and what not (so at best you are just like any computer), but too stupid to actually formulate them to solve something real (the one thing that makes us not get automated) I said I like maths, not that I am good at it. Anyway, I am good enough to pass with good grades and learn whatever I need to work. I would enjoy delving deeper into a lot of mathematical concepts, but that's not really useful outside of academia, so I don't care.
Matthew Fisher
>If you obsess about making a high salary, you don't actually like math. You know, user, it's possible to like to make money AND to learn maths at the same time. People aren't unidimensional.
The thing is, I never stated that I know much about those fields, just that I like maths i.e. I like abstracting and concatenating information, especially if it involves quantities.
Adam Kelly
The reason that fluid mechanics understanding has stagnated is IMO because we need a new mathematical tool other than vector calculus to understand and analyse it. All the big institutions play about with CFD because it writes papers, but it doesn't advance understanding in the slightest bit, it just helps people keep their job.
I've got a degree in aero and currently work as an electronic and control engineer. They're both hard in different ways, solving navier-stokes is a huge pain, but so is trying to hand calculate frequency methods, natural frequencies and fourier. I don't know enough about ChemE to comment. Civil is baby tier, despite what that one guy says.
