Calculus

[Caloroso, Michael E]

> :::MATHS IS A NESSESARY EVIL!!
> 
> Andy, I wouldn't say so.  Without that math we engineers would be simply
> f*ck*d.  It is bad teachers/teaching that makes us suffer.
> 
> We learn to do formal operations in order to pass the exams, but no one
> talks about the interpretation.
> 
> I'd be better if engineers would teach math to engineers.
> 
Martin, I couldn't agree more.  I had plenty of the math theory in college and aced the exams, but no one gave us real world applications.  It's frustrating that I never had the opportunity to apply that stuff in the eleven years I've graduated from school.  Maybe I should've enrolled in Engineering Science and not Electronic Technology.

OTOH, I've gained a lot of info on how to make a circuit *reliable*.  While a circuit can look good on paper, many engineers overlook how it can hold up in the real world.  There are plenty of reliability shortfalls in my Memorymoog that I have corrected, and it is holding up great in the fifteen years I have owned it.

MC

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