<p>Does anyone major in that?
How is the work load?
Is it more statistics/economics based than calculus based?
How heavy is it on calculus in realation to other engineering majors?
Is there a physics course involved?</p>
<p>I did look on the website, but that doesn’t really give me the full breadth…</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.iems.northwestern.edu/docs/undergraduate/08_09_IE_degree_requirements.pdf[/url]”>http://www.iems.northwestern.edu/docs/undergraduate/08_09_IE_degree_requirements.pdf</a></p>
<p>you don’t have to take physics if you don’t want to. IEMS is more flexible than others as far as basic science/engineering requirements go. that said, you’d still have to deal with some physics in “engineering analysis”.</p>
<p>i am not sure about the answer to your 2nd and 3rd questions. but my guess is it shouldn’t be bad. while you don’t have to be a math geek that “loves” it, you shouldn’t feel it’s a drag either. calculus is supposed to be a beautiful tool. you may use it when you work with non-discrete data. these days, you can “simulate” calculus using numerical methods on computers and spreadsheet. you’ll use MATLAB programming in your engineering analysis. i doubt you’ll actually have to solve complex integrals/differentials by hand.</p>
<p>Thanks so much. That helped. =)</p>