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What the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics has to say about teamwork and communication
The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics is the primary professional society to which industry mathematicians belong. The department here has posted a copy of their brochure advertising what applied mathematicians do and the brochure is also available on their website.
They have descriptions for a number of different jobs and at the end of each description they list the skills that are needed and their relative importance. Here is a typical list by the Senior Director of Business Development at Reuters.
(5 = most important; 0-1= hardly at all)
Communication............................................5
Teamwork ....................................................5
Computer......................................................4
Analytical......................................................4
Sales..............................................................4
Math..............................................................3
Computation ................................................3
Engineering ..................................................2
The Director of the Applied Computer Science and Mathematics Dept. at Merck Research Labs cites:
Communication skills ..................................5
Teamwork ....................................................5
Computer skills ............................................4
Statistics ........................................................4
Math..............................................................4
Biology, chemistry, physical chemistry,
biochemistry ................................................3
Engineering ..................................................3
G. T. Sallee
Professor of Mathematics
UC Davis
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