My first-year courses in engineering (in Canada) made basic use of calculus without assuming any real understanding of it. By second-year, the calculus was assumed and for linear ODE’s and similar. Third-year, we moved to Laplace and Fourier transforms and the final year finally started to get into applications and standards and “real” things.
I’ve always wondered how different other engineering school curricula are.
Also canadian engineering school. First year we learned calculus but did not use it. Second year we learned even more calculus (up to PDEs, inear alg, and vector calc), but still didn’t use it. Calculus started being assumed in third year. We suggested to the school that they make more of an effort to use the skills that they teach between classes, so this might change soon.
My first-year courses in engineering (in Canada) made basic use of calculus without assuming any real understanding of it. By second-year, the calculus was assumed and for linear ODE’s and similar. Third-year, we moved to Laplace and Fourier transforms and the final year finally started to get into applications and standards and “real” things.
I’ve always wondered how different other engineering school curricula are.
Also canadian engineering school. First year we learned calculus but did not use it. Second year we learned even more calculus (up to PDEs, inear alg, and vector calc), but still didn’t use it. Calculus started being assumed in third year. We suggested to the school that they make more of an effort to use the skills that they teach between classes, so this might change soon.