> That does not mean that most who attend mid-tier schools are afraid of math, or don't know math -- that's wildly false.
That logically does not follow from my statements. Mathematically, (A implies B) does not imply (not A implies not B).
> Yet you are pretending that research is engineering
Nope, that does not follow, either. Theory != research.
> Other schools teach you to build stuff and have less emphasis on theory
Operating a milling machine is an accurate summation for "building stuff". If you want to build stuff as an ME, you're going to have to learn how to use the machine tools.
> What's not fine is it often comes at the expense of knowing how to build or design things well.
Again, I specifically said Caltech didn't teach how to build or design. I also said that that part can be learned on the job, but that learning math on the job is something for unicorns.
> theoretically trained engineers tend to be quite condescending and arrogant, not realizing how poor their math knowledge actually is.
Yeah, well, I can vouch for the math skills of a BSME from Caltech are better than that of Masters degrees from other unis. Good enough to ace the math part of the GREs. PhD level is way beyond me, I topped out at variational calculus. I don't pretend to be a math major, that's also way beyond me. I didn't take any "math" classes beyond the required ones. I am certainly not a math whiz. I just had it beat into me in every class.
That logically does not follow from my statements. Mathematically, (A implies B) does not imply (not A implies not B).
> Yet you are pretending that research is engineering
Nope, that does not follow, either. Theory != research.
> Other schools teach you to build stuff and have less emphasis on theory
Operating a milling machine is an accurate summation for "building stuff". If you want to build stuff as an ME, you're going to have to learn how to use the machine tools.
> What's not fine is it often comes at the expense of knowing how to build or design things well.
Again, I specifically said Caltech didn't teach how to build or design. I also said that that part can be learned on the job, but that learning math on the job is something for unicorns.
> theoretically trained engineers tend to be quite condescending and arrogant, not realizing how poor their math knowledge actually is.
Yeah, well, I can vouch for the math skills of a BSME from Caltech are better than that of Masters degrees from other unis. Good enough to ace the math part of the GREs. PhD level is way beyond me, I topped out at variational calculus. I don't pretend to be a math major, that's also way beyond me. I didn't take any "math" classes beyond the required ones. I am certainly not a math whiz. I just had it beat into me in every class.