Depends on the specific engineering branch. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Sometimes nothing at all. But all engineering branches share one thing with physics: math.
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EatYouWell@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Isn’t physics a pretty integral part of engineering?
Zacryon@feddit.de 11 months ago
Forester@yiffit.net 11 months ago
Specifically, structural analysts
AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I think the joke is you don’t understand enough physics to make that your gig, so you go engineering as the backup plan. Source: am IT, were everyone’s backup plan when their initial goals fall through
Forester@yiffit.net 11 months ago
As a former engineering student who now works in IT… I resent your comment.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 11 months ago
About to graduate in physics and I’ve definitely scrolled through IT job postings when anxious about not getting a PhD position
AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Just graduated from college in IT, I know a thing or two because I’ve seen a thing or two. I originally wanted to do creative communications but couldn’t get past the entrance exam.
pigup@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I have worked with guys who got physics undergrad and mech E masters. They are both awful engineers who don’t really get it. I take this joke too personally because I know it’s bs from experience.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 11 months ago
The absolute worst is when those kinds of engineers graduate but are incapable of thinking about the problems they are designing solutions for.
Cowbee@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Engineering is just the economical application of applied physics, without Physicists Engineers work off faulty knowledge, without Engineers nothing gets designed.
The level of understanding an Engineer needs, however, is purely within the practical and economical, while Physicists understandably have more in-depth knowledge.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No, integrals are mathematics