<p>Aerospace Engineering
Architectural Engineering
Bioengineering
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Computer Engineering
Computer Science
Electrical Engineering
Engineering science
Industrial Engineering
Materials science and engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Nuclear Engineering</p>
<p>Which one involves the MOST math?</p>
<p>…what kind of math?</p>
<p>That’s sort of a vague question… It’s like asking which one involves the most science. All of them do, but some involve some sciences (or maths), and completely neglect other areas of science (or math). </p>
<p>Civil/structural engineering involves a ridiculous amount of linear algebra, but not so much differential equations or calculus, until you get into finite element theory. Designing trusses involves a ludicrous amount of algebra and geometry.</p>
<p>So, what sort of math are you most interested in?</p>
<p>Engineering science is the most “academic”, so its viable to have the most math involved. Actually, all of those involve a firm math background.</p>
<p>Computer science is the most mathematical of all of them; in fact, parts of theoretical computer science can be considered mathematics. Discrete mathematics is the foundation of computer science.</p>
<p>Parts of computer science, such as databases, programming languages, and networking, are very mathematical. Relational databases is an application of set theory. Programming languages are very closely related to theoretical CS, which is nothing but math. Networking requires a good understanding of graph theory. Now, the more applied parts of computer science (OSes, architecture, compilers, graphics) are a bit less mathematical, but still require a great understanding of math (mostly in discrete topics, but occasionally some calculus and linear algebra) in order to excel in those topics and to extend the field.</p>
<p>You don’t have to be a world class mathematician to be a computer scientist, but you do need an understanding of algebra, calculus, linear algebra, and especially discrete mathematics (which consists of set theory, proofs, graph theory, number theory, and combinatorics. Most CS departments have a discrete mathematics course that teaches enough of those subjects for a CS student to survive higher-level CS courses). Other courses that you may end up taking are statistics, algorithms (CS course that is mathematical), and theoretical computer science (automata, finite state machines, and the like). A math minor or double major will give you even more math.</p>
<p>all kinds of math aibar- combinatrics,probabilities,calculus,etc. (everything)…just answer to the best of your abilities…</p>
<p>linguae- how about computer engineering and electrical engineering?</p>
<p>I’ll start with electrical engineering first.</p>
<p>Electrical engineering requires calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations. Any mathematical field related to physics (especially the electrical parts of physics) would be very helpful. Statistics is useful for all engineering and scientific fields.</p>
<p>Now, computer engineering is a combination of computer science and electrical engineering. At my school (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo), computer engineering majors take all of the math that EE majors have to take plus discrete mathematics. They also take EE classes in digital design, circuit analysis, continuous-time signals and systems, semiconductors, and electronics; as well as computer science courses such as assembly/computer organization, computer architecture, systems programming, microprocessor design, OSes, and networking. They don’t have to delve into computer science theory, nor do they have to delve too much in the non-electronic parts of electrical engineering.</p>
<p>As for me? I am a rising sophmore computer science major and mathematics minor, so I don’t have much EE background; I got much of my information from experience with EE friends and the course catalog.</p>
<p>I agree with airbarr, its a real vague question. I mean, you can get into chaos theory and fractals and all that jazz in mechanical engineering if you want, is that what you are looking for? There are so many instances in each type of engineering where heavy math is utilized, and like airbarr mentioned, each branch tends to deal with their own thing.</p>
<p>At the undergrad level at my school, all engineers only need to take 1 or 2 more classes to get a math minor, so they all at least require you to take roughly the same core courses (calc, lin alg, diff eq, probability)</p>
<p>nah i’m talking about actual engineering courses. Which ones involve a lot more math(calc,algebra,everything) than anything else?</p>
<p>Digital Signal Processing</p>
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<p>DSP is highly mathematical, and in fact, signal analysis of any kind is highly mathematical.</p>
<p>But I think the most mathematical classes are the ones from from CS. Such as algorithms. Cryptography. Theory of computation. Complexity theory. Many of these are basically math courses. In fact, at some schools such as MIT, these classes ARE math classes (they are crosslisted in both the CS and math departments, and you have a lot of math majors, including math PhD students, taking these classes).</p>
<p>Other engineering classes may use a lot of math, but they generally aren’t so mathematical that they can actually be counted as math courses for the purposes of earning a math degree.</p>
<p>Yeah… Agreed… But then you get into the whole “is CS really engineering” thing. At Rice, the department that deals with that sort of thing is called “Computational and Applied Mathematics,” and the computer science department is entirely separate from the CAAM department, so it’s even further removed from the engineering department.</p>
<p>But yeah, definitely check out the computational and applied mathematics sorts of departments and majors, if that’s what you’re interested in… I don’t really think of them as “engineering”, though, personally…</p>
<p>Computer Science: scientific computation, algorithm design and analysis, theory of computation, complexity theory, discrete math, combinatorics, logic, graph theory
Electrical Engineering: signal processing, communications, and information theory</p>
<p>I would also say computer science.</p>
<p>I was a computational mathematics major (as an undergrad) and you were required to take the following CS courses: Algorithms, Computational Complexity (NP-Complete and all that mess), Theory of Computation (turing machines and all that mess) along with the discrete math stuff.</p>
<p>Having said that…</p>
<p>Ever look at the U of Illinois graduate programs in either Computer Science or Applied Mathematics? You can actually construct a set of 10 courses in which you would get an MS degree in either major (depending on what you select as Math Core, CS Core and Math-CS joint dept courses as electives).</p>
<p>I would say EE because its the most theoretical of majors</p>
<p>To echo what’s been said about CS, a lot of people, at least getting into CS don’t realize just how much mathematics is involved. I have friends who think they’re going to pursue the field who think that it’s basically all just programming simple games and what not, but there’s far more complexity involved.</p>
<p>I’ve had the rare opportunity to delve deeply into CS as a high school student (thanks to a research project that’s taken, to date, 3 years), and the more time I spend with the topic, the more it seems that “real” CS (not just basic programming or working with websites) is basically an application of mathematics. It’s not necessarily the sort of mathematics that you might find in requirements for most other engineering fields, but usually more “discrete” math. I think linguae did a good job covering that aspect of things.</p>
<p>Personally, that’s what I love about CS…it’s a cutting edge field that rests largely on cool, non-standard mathematical topics.</p>
<p>If you go into the right areas, EE is definitely the most mathematical and theoretical. Beyond the intro circuit stuff, you can get into linear systems, transform theory, random/markovian processes, estimation theory, and communication theory - which are all entirely mathematical in nature.</p>
<p>You can argue that other majors are required to take more math, but that’s not necessarily the issue. I’m talking about which majors provide the most opportunity to go into heavily mathematical areas.</p>
<p>Computer science gives a strong case for being considered heavily mathematical as well, but there’s so much emphasis on programming these days going into true theoretical CS is somewhat difficult.</p>
<p>FYI, UIUC cut its Theoretical and Applied Mathematics department last year and split the department up to merge it into the other engineering departments. There was a big bru-ha-ha about it, complete with student protests and demonstrations.</p>
<p>You mean Theoretical and Applied Mechanics? They’re going to merge with Mechanical Engineering and form a new Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering. They also recently merged General Engineering and Industrial Engineering to form the new Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering.</p>