Anybody familiar with Engineering fields?

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Originally Posted by Al Swearengen

My own son, who is 19, is working towards a degree in Mechanical Engineering. All I know about it is that the math is hard.

I like math, it's okay, as long as.. I don't know how to define it, or any specific area, but some of it just plain sucks because it's very unnecessary looking and too long and out-of-the-way to solve something that's only an abstract concept anyway..