[lagadu]

That answer doesn't surprise me in the slightest. I'm a software engineer so I forgot everything taught in those classes the moment I turned the exam in but I've a friend who's a professor of something that mechanical engineers take related to fluids (don't ask me details, we don't even live in the same country any longer); at one point he told me that anything other than numerical analysis is absolutely worthless in the real world because you can't find analytical solutions for almost anything.