Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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From modeling a medieval trebuchet to launching spacecraft, Dmitriy shares how the Wolfram Language reshaped the way he thinks as an engineer and educator. In this conversation, he traces his journey from that first 2013 encounter with symbolic computation to building fully interactive Aerospace Engineering lectures in Mathematica, deriving equations on the fly, simulating orbital maneuvers, and visualizing structural behavior in real time. He also discusses the custom tools he's built, including a beam solver for structural mechanics and research packages for orbital and rotational dynamics. More than a workflow upgrade, Dmitriy explains how the shift from procedural to functional thinking transformed the way he solves problems, teaches students, and approaches engineering itself. A must-watch for engineers, educators, and anyone curious about the power of computational thinking.