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"What courses were most and least useful to you in your engineering career?"

danzima

Hey there, community! It's a pretty muggy Friday here in Chicago, but also it's Friday, so on the whole things are good.

 

One of our Chicago colleagues is writing an article for another publication on the topic "What courses were most and least useful to you in your engineering career?", and he thought it would be interesting to get input from our community, so I wanted to open the question up to the members area.

Any response that makes it into the article will be credited to you, so maybe that'll be the start of your second career as a public intellectual and you'll wind up doing TED talks in Palm Springs soon enough?

 

Thanks in advance for your input!

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  • For me the most useful courses were the introductory courses that all engineers had to take:  Statics (mechanical engineering), Introduction to Electrical Engineering, Chemistry, Introductory Physics, etc.  I found that some of the 3rd and 4th year courses were years behind industry in my area of specialty once I was out of school but the basics never change.  If I had to pick one that was best it would be Statics like Doug.  That was the course used to weed out first semester engineers where I went to school.  FORTRAN also turned out to be very useful in my first few years out of school (I never dropped a deck ;-).

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  • For me the most useful courses were the introductory courses that all engineers had to take:  Statics (mechanical engineering), Introduction to Electrical Engineering, Chemistry, Introductory Physics, etc.  I found that some of the 3rd and 4th year courses were years behind industry in my area of specialty once I was out of school but the basics never change.  If I had to pick one that was best it would be Statics like Doug.  That was the course used to weed out first semester engineers where I went to school.  FORTRAN also turned out to be very useful in my first few years out of school (I never dropped a deck ;-).

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