RE: S82 and BB12 Mar 2021 11:27
Interesting species, quite a difference between say civil, structural and mechanical engineers and those esoteric types in the game of photoelectronics, design and construction of ‘near’ and ‘far’ targets for the MINOS experiment. All graduate engineers (not me) are highly intelligent yet the former types are issued with tasks converging onto a final target (bridge, skyscraper,gearbox) while the latter are closer to physicists ie extremely open and able to understand quantum theory.
Nothing is that simple though, one of my best friends is a Cambridge maths Ph.D but designs engineering software: complex overlap these days between the various STEM subject experts.