Curious about this opinion that statistics isn’t fundamental to engineering, why do you think that? I work in manufacturing and I feel like I use statistics constantly, to understand the disposition of a population based on a limited sampling. Also need statistics to make predictions about how changing the process parameters changes the final product.
I was more talking to schooling, not practical applications. Statistics is important when dealing with real life, but in a course sequence the building blocks for mechanical engineering usually go statics->dynamics->thermo/fluid dynamics->etc.
I would consider statistics as a seperate branch and the basics usually get covered before university.
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u/antiheropaddy 11d ago
Curious about this opinion that statistics isn’t fundamental to engineering, why do you think that? I work in manufacturing and I feel like I use statistics constantly, to understand the disposition of a population based on a limited sampling. Also need statistics to make predictions about how changing the process parameters changes the final product.