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One group that would work on these types of problems is operations research analysts: http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos044.htm. An airline might have a team of analysts working with various programs and statistical packages etc. Operations managers, working with marketing, would then make the final...

Except for the very significant portion of MBAs with science and engineering backgrounds :smile:. Many of the employers hiring MBAs prefer to see that quantitative background as well. But MBA level math is typically nothing you'll need calculus for. Excel is the preferred tool for business math.

AP credits and a heavy workload let me double major with engineering in 4 years. Different schools also have different general requirements.

If you are working for a company making robotics, for example, you could very well find yourself doing some programming as an ME if you're able, or doing whatever else is required. Once you're actually doing something as a part of your job, it wouldn't be very hard to convince a manager that...

You memorize the equations and do a lot of problems :smile:. Trying to understand why things work the way they do, possibly by working through derivations, etc, can also help. That's why textbooks are set up the way they are. I also found that working through problems with others helped...

Your work experience will be much more relevant. Once you have your foot in the door somewhere, you may never even need to tell anyone where you went to school or what your degree was in. Assuming the company you work for does a range of things, how your career progresses will depend on the...

Researching new ideas will probably require a graduate degree. The majority of new technologies in industry are developed in research centers or small specialized companies. Engineers (not working in R&D) generally take the new technology and apply it to existing products or tweak products for...

I'm still with Bohr on this one... the measurement problem and observer / observed divides really aren't necessary. Basically, the idea is that the outcomes of experiments always depend on context or experimental setup. It simply doesn't make sense to talk about what's being measured (the...

Try "Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature" by Bohr. Seriously. The popular style books rarely get much of the physics or philosophy right unfortunately. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0918024501/?tag=pfamazon01-20

By that time opinions had already been formed. As a result, Heisenberg's formulation was not well accepted as far as its ontological implications. This is one of the reasons that Schrödinger developed his equation a year later, and it's one of the reasons Schrödinger's equation essentially...

The philosophy thing was a joke, but I do think a lot of it is just people talking past each other and not recognizing the different assumptions that are being made. There hasn't been much rigor around the interpretational aspects of QM. Evidence for that is the "Copenhagen Interpretation"...

This is exactly why I'm relatively indifferent to whether or not fields are called real or not. It reduces to a question of aesthetics and language. We're arguing over what to call the situation, we're not arguing over what the situation actually is. The fact that there has been a lot of...

There is very little consensus on what is or isn't true. It's much more about what is self-consistent and logically possible and what isn't. In philosophy you learn about certain arguments and sets of beliefs, but you can always argue either for or against the conclusions of any author with...

The best you can do with any given theory that claims to be realistic is show that it is logically consistent and consistent with known experiments that have been performed. You can never prove that there isn't some underlying microscopic probabilistic reality leading you to experimental...

No, but to a philosopher of science the question of whether or not any realistic theories are possible lies outside of physics. All we can do is look at individual theories and see if they are possible, valid, and consistent with experiments, their math, and certain ontological concepts. I am...