Question: Is it true that engineers spend their entire time in university studying math but then when they have to work...

Question: Is it true that engineers spend their entire time in university studying math but then when they have to work in real life they only use high schiool level math?

For the most part, but I've used calculus a few times in optimization problems, FEA and Monte Carlo simulations. Graduated a year ago

So for the most part of the time you use high school math and a few times you used a few ''complicated advanced math for super inteligent people'' ?

Make no mistake, high-school math is part of it, albeit in incredibly large volumes that often require analyses to put the data into physical context. It's just that the higher maths are usually reserved for design, optimization, and experimental analyses.

Engeneers just dont want to admit it

Entirely depends on what kind of job you get. Most starting positions won't demand too much math from you. When you actually get to engineering and designing you'll be using more complex areas of math.

For or less. If you go into R&D I'd imagine you'd use more, but most don't end up there.

>university student
>specialized in a STEM field
>required to study advanced math throughout university
>get a dank degree in engineering for it
>6 figures starting salary
>job anywhere on earth
>only use high school math to do the vast majority of your job

the "smug engineering graduate" meme is NOT a meme for nothing, cowboy.

t. smug pre-med psychiatry student who won't have to deal with icky things like needles and blood and guts and wrongful death suits yet will get to reap a nice, fat 200k starting salary and a job anywhere on earth i want

I'm 26 years old. I've met a ton of engineers. I ran a tech non-profit for a few years, and worked in the engineering department of an automotive firm for a while. Just for the fun of it, I always at some point ask if they do any calculus in their job. I've literally never gotten a yes. That includes plenty of pretty senior engineers, and a close friend of mine who does the electrical system on a rocket that resupplies the international space station.

School is kind of a joke desu senpai.

>numerical methods
>""""advanced math""""
We don't call them brainlets for nothing, OP.

t. math phd, 400k a year at any n-dimensional manifold factory anywhere in the world