I'm referring to people with degrees in mechanical, electrical, etc., or programmers with computer science or related degrees. These are all people who got through some level of college math requirement such as calculus.
And I'm not blaming anybody -- for one thing college math is often badly taught, and there's a pervasive message that you won't use any of your math or theory after you finish your degree. And then we get them so busy with CAD and bureaucracy, that they forget a lot of their school stuff.
But anything requiring calculus or above, goes to a handful of "math people" in the department, who accept those tasks in return for avoiding the CAD and organization stuff. (I'm one of those people at my workplace, my degree is in physics).
To make it a bit harder, virtually all math these days is done with computation, which means a person has to be good at both math and programming at some level.
And I'm not blaming anybody -- for one thing college math is often badly taught, and there's a pervasive message that you won't use any of your math or theory after you finish your degree. And then we get them so busy with CAD and bureaucracy, that they forget a lot of their school stuff.
But anything requiring calculus or above, goes to a handful of "math people" in the department, who accept those tasks in return for avoiding the CAD and organization stuff. (I'm one of those people at my workplace, my degree is in physics).
To make it a bit harder, virtually all math these days is done with computation, which means a person has to be good at both math and programming at some level.