• WastedJobe@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    My engineering friends and me propose that physicists should be referred to as theoretical engineers.

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      9 months ago

      As someone with an engineering degree and a science degree, scientists are absolutely nothing like engineers.

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        9 months ago

        Doing research, I used to work with mathematicians, engineers AND physicists on a daily basis for years. Physicists were the least fun. Most of them seemed to think of themselves as a sort of Jesuits of Science. As in: “I just figured this out, and already it’s set in stone, why do you even argue with me?” Mathematicians and engineers were a lot humbler, more down-to-earth. Also, some of them were astonishingly edgy in a very positive way.

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      9 months ago

      There are different kinds of physics researchers and it doesn’t look like what physics lessons show in university, which is mostly theory. Most are not theoricians, they work on experiments and analyze results, they design and build instruments similarly to engineers. It seems the main difference is the kind of question they want to answer to: scientific question vs client need.

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      9 months ago

      I propose engineers not be allowed to name things. Not everything needs to be an “engineer”