Hmm, I agree that much of the higher level math is not required for engineering work that has extended math requirements for the engineering degree. However, at

Hmm, I agree that much of the higher level math is not required for engineering work that has extended math requirements for the engineering degree. However, at least for aerospace, it goes a bit beyond 8th grade algebra and excel. I used to work as an aerospace engineer, doing trajectory analysis. We used high school trig and algebra, as well as first semester calculus pretty much all the time. But, I don't think any of the other required math classes for my aerospace degree were ever used (3 semesters calc, 2 semesters linear algebra, diff. eq, IIRC). I did end up using a fair amount of stats, which was not required for my degree, but really should have been.