Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-s2hrs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-09T20:30:47.265Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
This chapter is part of a book that is no longer available to purchase from Cambridge Core

Electrical Engineering

Marla Parker
Affiliation:
SunSoft
Get access

Summary

The turning point of my lifelong mathematical awareness was in the sixth grade, when math became fun and interesting. My career plan was laid out in the ninth grade when I decided to become a math teacher, at that time the only job option I knew for people who liked math. Since becoming a math teacher meant taking a lot of math classes and going to college, my high school courses consisted of four years of math, science, and English, two years of Spanish, and of course the required social studies and P.E. classes, plus some music classes. This prepared me for almost any college while providing a well-rounded education.

Attending the University of California at Davis to pursue a mathematics degree, I plunged into calculus, chemistry, and physics. But by the end of my freshman year, mathematics, especially calculus, became too abstract for me. At this same time, I enrolled in an introduction to computer programming class for engineering students and enjoyed it. To my surprise, the engineering students in this computer programming class were also in my math, chemistry, and physics classes. So I took more engineering classes and discovered they were fun. Engineering, especially electrical engineering, uses even more applied math than math majors use. Now I could apply my math and science “tools” to something that felt closer to real life.

After receiving a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, I went to work for IBM, and have been there ever since.

Type
Chapter
Information
She Does Math!
Real-Life Problems from Women on the Job
, pp. 126 - 131
Publisher: Mathematical Association of America
Print publication year: 1995

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×