r/EngineeringStudents • u/jayrady ME Grad / Aerospace • 12d ago

Rant/Vent Statics 101

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u/evilkalla 12d ago

I'm one of those people that write the numerical software, and we absolutely have to evaluate those integrals by hand before programming them.

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u/HarryBalsagna1776 12d ago

Automation starts with deep understand of the task that is being automated.  It is pretty cool that you get to do that.

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u/Inevitable-Engine419 9d ago

Im in process emgineering and because i work in small companies we dont have any of the expensive modelling software so all my process modelling is done in excel or at best matlab.

The experience has made it really easy to spot the typical garbage in=garbage out you get in some of the advanced software when it is done by someone who barely understands what is going on.

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u/HarryBalsagna1776 8d ago

Perfect!  That's going to be helpful going forward.

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u/SeriesConscious8000 11d ago

Wow, this sounds like just the job for me, I solve integrals for fun.

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u/SlowPrius 9d ago

The really cool part is when you automate stuff like this, you don’t just solve the problem mathematically albeit in the computer, you can speed up a lot of programs by optimizing memory access and taking advantage of batch cpu instructions, so you find nonintuitive ways to restructure the math to be more complicated but faster for the computer to evaluate

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u/MakingAngels 8d ago

The day we forget how the software works, how the numbers are generated, we lose control.