As a Computer Engineering student I don't really have time to solve things by hand if my calculator does it for me. It helps prevent small errors that I might make in a larger mathematical problem. If I'm working out something while out and about I would bust out my phone and use the calculator on that.
Then again to get accepted into an engineering degree you have to be a maths boss to start with..
Then again to get accepted into an engineering degree you have to be a maths boss to start with..