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Engineering is a purely math field! From the very basic engineering courses, all you do is math. You must compute things like trajectories of objects spinning, flying, falling, etc, or what an object might do if it were to start moving. You also need to compute areas and volumes of odd-shaped objects to more accurately represent them in problems to determine how they will move--crucial for mechanical engineers. Basically, if you're not good at math, engineering is not the field for you.
There are many instances: Computer graphics, using quadratic, exponential, and radical graphs to draw curves. Mechanical engineering, physics requires a solid math understanding. Computer engineering obviously requires at least basic math skills. As for technology, computers use binary.
Ratios when it comes to gears, a lot of small units of measuring for cylinder boring, percentage problems, weight ratios, displacement or cubic measuring of cylinders, limits when it comes to car weight. Physics would describe the type of math for a mechanical engineer which goes hand in hand with math.
These are the general math courses in an undergraduate program of Mechanical Engineering. Actually, these are also the math courses required in ANY undergraduate Engineering curriculum: Algebra Trigonometry Analytic Geometry Differential Calculus Integral Calculus Mutivariable Calculus Differential Equations
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