<p>When I talk about Fourier transforms and that they are important to understand, in EE in particular they are heavily used. When I say using them, I don’t just mean taking integrals, I mean being able to use FFT’s to solve problems etc. If you have matlab and the toolboxes - take a look at the signal processing toolboxes. Also look at how matlab does FFT’s (fast fourier transforms). Its important to be able to use numerical techniques.</p>