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clazziquai
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
6685 Posts
June 02 2008 03:37 GMT
#1
Can anyone list the most important to least important?

-Physics
-Math
-Biology
-Chemistry


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MaZza[KIS]
Profile Joined December 2005
Australia2110 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-06-02 03:43:30
June 02 2008 03:41 GMT
#2
No.1 - Maths - this has to be a given... engineering principles are built on applied mathematics and mathematical modelling.
No. 2 - Physics (this will apply irrespective of what discipline: electrical, civil, telecomm etc. etc. but the dosages may be different)
No.3 and No.4 Differ between biology and chemistry... for example, enviro will need some biology, whereas a civil engineer may not do any, yet a civil engineer will need to know a bit more chemistry to understand the bonding and such of cement, grout, etc. etc.

I finished Telecommunication Engineering at University of Sydney (Australia)

Quick edit: if you're asking so you know "which subjects to pic". I'd go with maths and physics as prerequisites and bio and chem as optional. You may need to do chem if you intend to do civil type engineering as opposed to something electrical (p.s. theories in chemistry will help you with, say, computer engineering, to understand things at atomic/sub-atomic level, but you'll get pretty much the same knowledge from physics)

Hope that help.
I really wanted a bigger opponent, like Nate Marquardt, or King Neptune, or Zeus, or Zeus and Fedor, or Fedor on Zeus's shoulders, and they can both punch but only Zeus can kick.
infinity21 *
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Canada6683 Posts
June 02 2008 03:42 GMT
#3
it depends on what kind of engineering you're going into ;;;
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clazziquai
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
6685 Posts
June 02 2008 03:43 GMT
#4
Hmm

Industrial Engineering, hopefully by my second year.
I know for sure it's Math and Physics, but I want to know what is more important between those two.

As for bio/chem, I asked because I'm taking chemistry my first year (most likely)
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geometryb
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
United States1249 Posts
June 02 2008 03:43 GMT
#5
art
politics
religion
english
history
MaZza[KIS]
Profile Joined December 2005
Australia2110 Posts
June 02 2008 03:45 GMT
#6
On June 02 2008 12:43 clazziquai wrote:
Hmm

Industrial Engineering, hopefully by my second year.
I know for sure it's Math and Physics, but I want to know what is more important between those two.

As for bio/chem, I asked because I'm taking chemistry my first year (most likely)


If you're doing Industrial Maths, Chem and Physics ALL be equally important. Forget Bio.
I really wanted a bigger opponent, like Nate Marquardt, or King Neptune, or Zeus, or Zeus and Fedor, or Fedor on Zeus's shoulders, and they can both punch but only Zeus can kick.
clazziquai
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
6685 Posts
June 02 2008 03:45 GMT
#7
On June 02 2008 12:43 geometryb wrote:
art
politics
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english
history


ROFL

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clazziquai
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
6685 Posts
June 02 2008 03:45 GMT
#8
On June 02 2008 12:45 MaZza[KIS] wrote:
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On June 02 2008 12:43 clazziquai wrote:
Hmm

Industrial Engineering, hopefully by my second year.
I know for sure it's Math and Physics, but I want to know what is more important between those two.

As for bio/chem, I asked because I'm taking chemistry my first year (most likely)


If you're doing Industrial Maths, Chem and Physics ALL be equally important. Forget Bio.


Oh I see.

Thanks for clearing it up. ^^

Good to have an actual Engineering student answer my question.

Thanks once again
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We Are Here
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Australia1810 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-06-02 04:17:36
June 02 2008 03:55 GMT
#9
nvm
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clazziquai
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
6685 Posts
June 02 2008 04:01 GMT
#10
On June 02 2008 12:55 We Are Here wrote:
what engineering dicipline are u looking at? cause for civil eng. you need to be good at integration/differentiation

or are you doing core engineering for the first 2 or so years then specialise afterwards?


industrial eng.
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imDerek
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States1944 Posts
June 02 2008 04:11 GMT
#11
I would say

physics
math
chemistry
biology

for Industrial engineering
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Plexa
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Aotearoa39261 Posts
June 02 2008 04:30 GMT
#12
Math Math Math Math Math

everything else is a derivative
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HeavOnEarth
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States7087 Posts
June 02 2008 04:35 GMT
#13
On June 02 2008 13:30 Plexa wrote:
Math Math Math Math Math

everything else is a derivative

yeah, the cool thing about engineering is everything can be understood; other subjects are just memorization hax ; and politics is a web T_T
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Failsafe
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States1298 Posts
June 02 2008 04:39 GMT
#14
haha, i like plexa's answer. math is a great way to begin. with a very solid understanding of mathematical concepts, you should be able to handle physics more easily. a great alternative is just to study logic. i have a feeling with an extremely sound background in logic and math you could own pretty much any and or everything with just a bit of memorization to expand the 'vocabulary' respective to your major.
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Myrmidon
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
United States9452 Posts
June 02 2008 04:40 GMT
#15
You need math to do imaginary engineering?
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j/k Honestly I'd say math is the most important for most engineering (from personal experience, definitely in EE by far), but IE might be the exception. I know in my school's IE curriculum that IE requires 1 semester less math than most engineering and all sorts of introductory basics in many fields (intro statics, intro circuits/EE, intro materials science, etc.) So I'm thinking physics may be the most important, followed closely by math. Chemistry...may be important for an IE doing traditional work in the manufacturing field depending on the type of manufacturing being done I guess. Biology's definitely the least important.
Wizard
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Poland5055 Posts
June 02 2008 05:16 GMT
#16
On June 02 2008 12:43 geometryb wrote:
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english
history

lol
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MaZza[KIS]
Profile Joined December 2005
Australia2110 Posts
June 02 2008 05:20 GMT
#17
On June 02 2008 13:40 Myrmidon wrote:
You need math to do imaginary engineering?
+ Show Spoiler +
j/k Honestly I'd say math is the most important for most engineering (from personal experience, definitely in EE by far), but IE might be the exception. I know in my school's IE curriculum that IE requires 1 semester less math than most engineering and all sorts of introductory basics in many fields (intro statics, intro circuits/EE, intro materials science, etc.) So I'm thinking physics may be the most important, followed closely by math. Chemistry...may be important for an IE doing traditional work in the manufacturing field depending on the type of manufacturing being done I guess. Biology's definitely the least important.


so basically what I said?
I really wanted a bigger opponent, like Nate Marquardt, or King Neptune, or Zeus, or Zeus and Fedor, or Fedor on Zeus's shoulders, and they can both punch but only Zeus can kick.
HeadBangaa
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States6512 Posts
June 02 2008 06:03 GMT
#18
Math, Physics, and try to take programming classes instead of those last horrid subjects.
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kransekake
Profile Joined December 2007
Norway24 Posts
June 02 2008 09:17 GMT
#19
math by far. if you can do the math, the physics ain't that hard.
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thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
June 02 2008 13:59 GMT
#20
pretty sure math > physics. First of all you NEED math to be competent at physics. You won't be able to be productive solving shit if you can't do the math~~

plus oftentimes in engineering you don't really need to "understand" the physics, just use it, and using it requires math.
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