Sounds to me like engineers just pay each other big money to keep quiet the fact that they don't know what the heck their job is. That's the scariest part of this engineering phenomenon. Engineers themselves often seem equally puzzled as to what their career involves. As an example, we'll take chemical engineers. It's not the same thing.
Chemists pour chemicals and stuff.
I thought I would never solve my engineering enigma, no matter how long I stayed at this school. You see, I've decided to become an S.E. major. You know, syllable engineering. Matt Hanley is a graduate student in communications. His column appears on Thursdays.