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You can find various discussions about engineer’s syndrome or engineer’s disease all over the place, but once you see it yourself, you’ll never unsee it. It may be you’ve already seen it in action, just never had it named.
I went for a Computer Science degree, and took so much of the same coursework as engineers, and it was a near-constant experience in talking with a haughty engineering student - and that’s when they were just in the training phase. This was prior to the dot-com run-up to the dot-com bubble, so Computer Science was definitely thought of (by engineers) as some kind of red-headed step-child with no real point to it - so I think that dialed up these sort of anecdotal interactions in school.
It’s not just engineers, though. I’ve seen cases where doctors (of the MD type) do this sort of thing.
Anyway, it’s particularly hilarious to see, say, an EE or ME do this with politics, the humanities, evolution, vaccines, or climate change.
What is “the engineer’s disease”?
You can find various discussions about engineer’s syndrome or engineer’s disease all over the place, but once you see it yourself, you’ll never unsee it. It may be you’ve already seen it in action, just never had it named.
A for instance:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10812804
https://thunkshow.com/2019/07/24/172.-‘Engineer’s-Syndrome’-and-Learning-Techniques.html
I went for a Computer Science degree, and took so much of the same coursework as engineers, and it was a near-constant experience in talking with a haughty engineering student - and that’s when they were just in the training phase. This was prior to the dot-com run-up to the dot-com bubble, so Computer Science was definitely thought of (by engineers) as some kind of red-headed step-child with no real point to it - so I think that dialed up these sort of anecdotal interactions in school.
It’s not just engineers, though. I’ve seen cases where doctors (of the MD type) do this sort of thing.
Anyway, it’s particularly hilarious to see, say, an EE or ME do this with politics, the humanities, evolution, vaccines, or climate change.