> And some courses would require it for calculating Fourier 
> coefficients/transforms, but those weren't challenging integrals. In all 
> other courses where, say, a diff eq would crop up, the professor would 
> almost always say - "Let's not get distracted by the math - this is an 
> engineering course. Here's the solution: You can verify it by plugging it 
> back into the diff eq."

Yeh, I guess it depends whether you want to be someone who just uses 
pre-existing results to "Engineer" run-of-the-mill stuff, or you actually 
want to work with cutting-edge concepts and develop new stuff.  Me, I prefer 
the latter, but maybe that was just because of the way my degree was 
oriented.

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