The Engineer's Bread and Butter – How Engineers do Math for a Living

Product design engineering focuses on the goal of developing a solution of a particular problem, for a particular market, by generating a product. The development process generally starts at the application level, where analysis of a given system on the broadest level occurs, followed by systematically pealing away the layers of the onion, as-it-were, to arrive at detail component design. Mathematics is the language of these analyses; and in this talk, we will take a qualitative look at the mathematical foundations of these analyses, vis-a-vis the physical laws of the system, and see how these methods apply as the development process progresses. Some analysis techniques to be discussed are statistical methods, numerical methods, analytical methods, and some commercial software codes that are available to conduct these analyses.

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