Rose Hulman Vs Harvey Mudd

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Tue, 15 Nov 2016 23:44:03 +0000

@NoVADad99

By abstract, it’s not that the problems you are solving are necessarily abstract. For most engineers this is not the case. The abstractness is in identifying a problem into a specific class of similar problems and developing and using tools that solve a class of problems. This is much more powerful than understanding individual problems in isolation. I think this is the “abstract” in engineering.

Engineering is very concrete in the sense that most problems engineers solve are concrete and tangible. This is not the case, in say, pure mathematics.