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Originally Posted by GioforPM
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Every engineer I ever met in university was no genius. Engineering failure rate is high (though lower than computer science, agriculture or advertising) but I suspect it's because it's a program that attracts people whose parents think it leads to a job versus being suited for that degree.
First year engineers have a lot less responsibility than first year teachers.
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Agreed, it’s not an easy program by any stretch however I’ve known a bunch of electrical engineers who took the “square peg round hole” approach and passed the program out of sheer stubbornness. Hard work and a modest amount of brains / talent can get you through it. I’ve met exactly one other engineer in my time who I’d call a genius, and quite a few who I’d call idiots.
One of my favourite engineer stories was during a training day on a specific piece of test equipment we had a guy from the US doing a demo and explaining operating procedures. At one point the presenter said “we normalize our test values to 70 degrees ambient”.
A P Eng then asked “is that in Celsius or Fahrenheit?”. Well s*** for brains, if it’s 70 Celsius ambient in your room it probably means it’s on fire.