Engineering Education: Social Engineering Rather than Actual Engineering

Indrek Wichman

We engineers like to solve technical problems. That’s the way we think, that’s why we chose our major, that’s why we got into and stayed in engineering.

There are several other reasons why we got into engineering. One of them was the absence of what I describe here as “social engineering,” where the professor/instructor is interested not so much in solving technical problems as in setting the world right—in his or her opinion.

Cont... https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2017/08/engineering-education-social-engineering-rather-actual-engineering/



Indrek, eh? Looks like one a them immigrants to me.