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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gosh this is making me rethink my daughter’s plans to major in engineering. She’s super good at math but has never expressed interest in building things. It sounds quite hard.[/quote]
There are many different facets of engineering, not all necessarily involved in the actual 'building' of something. I actually went into it wanting to learn to 'blow things up' (I can watch an implosion video all day long and still wonder, very sadly, just how/why the Towers mostly did so almost as if....by design). I figured the best way to learn about how to destroy something was to learn how it got designed and built. But my "Structures" class(es) (I'm the PP who hated Steel), took care of that and I became fascinated with, well, water and its mechanics. Groundwater, stormwater, drinking water, and even, ah, wastewater. Stormwater...rain water (one of my rare electives was meteorology) held a particular allure and was where I chose to focus my upperclass studies and what my engineering career revolved around.

Math is central to so much of engineering and if your daughter loves it....and is open minded....she might find an engineering (or an application of that math, science, and data) aspect appealing. Good luck and good searching! It's a fun journey. And regardless, an engineering education, almost regardless of the school (and there are many "good" ones), is top-notch. She would be able to flex into just. about. anything.[/quote]

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