On Mar 22, 2007, at 6:31 AM, Alan B. Pearce wrote:

> But if that really is the case, then the course is rather badly
> constructed in the way the units are allocated, or selected,
> against the end degree.
>
It does seem that for a typical "hard science or engineering" program,
a school has to carefully coordinate their math and physics classes.
I vaguely remember a heady time when my physics, math, and ee classes
were all pretty much well-aligned, but that required being a semester
or so ahead in math (due to AP class), AND having the 
physics/engineering
classes teach some math.  (yeah, this was all curl/grad/div and
matrices and Maxwell and such.)

On the dim side, most of that got "simplified" into phasors and smith
charts and stuff in the advanced EE classes, and those particular bits
of math and physics have been among the LEAST used bits of my college
education since graduation (but then, I went into software instead of
one of the hard EE fields...)

BillW
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