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November 1, 2005, 7:13 pm PST
11/01 The Stepford Family
Quote From: selcotracyYou ask why engineers seem to think there is only one way to do things and have an incessant need to share the right way with people. I am an engineer. My husband is an engineer. We met in an engineering class in college. It gets better. We own an engineering firm, and we their work together with 40 other engineers. In college engineers have it beaten into their heads that there is only one way to do things: the Professors. That the answer doesn’t count unless you show all the steps: So the result doesn’t matter its how you get there. I have seen engineering professor’s give a student 80% credit for the wrong answer where you show the steps and 10% for the right answer when not showing the steps. It flies in the face of reason because you think of engineers as being innovative and creative in their designs, but engineering school is designed to make them conform to a ridge non-creative standard. For some they just can’t let go of the rigidness of college. This is one reason that many engineers that graduate with straight A’s aren’t able to adapt to engineering outside of the university. If you want an engineer that can display creativity, look for one that graduates with a C+ or B- average, they are the ones the professor’s couldn’t beat the creativity out of.
Hope this explains some of why we are the way we are. I can understand why your brain is stuck in the Engineer mode. This is what you do probably most of your waking hours. As a person that takes an Engineer's schematic or drawing and brings it to a three dimensional form. You know as well as I do how often the schematic or drawing needs to be red lined. Sometimes the math just does not work or is incorrect. Maybe if you just conceder the changes to your behavior as red lining yourself, then you will be able to not have the anger when things at home are not just as your mind thinks they should be.
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