Civil/Construction Management Major...

seesys
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:11:37 +0000

I wouldn’t sweat the math. I’m doing Structural Engineering and in the 6 calculus classes I’m required to take, I got C’s in all except 1 of them. In physics I got B’s in all 3 of them.

Right now I’m taking structural analysis and for the most part math is not an integral part of it. Physical understanding of a beam and how shear/moment applies is much more important. After a while you start to recognize things and the math becomes more obsolete, more of a tool that you use to calculate your final values rather than a method you depend on. In solid mechanics I was taught how to mathematically derive formulas to calculate deflection, which was difficult for me, but in this analysis class, I’m learning how to get that deflection with very little math and more intuition.