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minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·7 months agoSo. Many. DIYer/maker/woodworker/machinist/car mechanic/etc. Youtubers are former engineers, especially software engineers.
minus-squarePetDinosaurs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·7 months agoAgreed. I might also argue that those people are all still engineers. Engineer just means “problem solver”. Everyone gets paid for solving problems. The real question in my head is how far does this go? Sometimes the problem is that these burgers need flipping. Protein disk translocation engineers? I’m cool with that.
minus-squareentropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·7 months agoI’d argue that engineering, like science, is a mindset. If science asks “what” things are, engineering asks “how” to do things
minus-squarePetDinosaurs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·edit-27 months agoA more standard definition in my tenure in academia is that scientists solve problems because they want to know the answer. Engineers solve problems because they want the problem to be solved. In any case, the difference is just, heh, academic. I’m very much the latter.
So. Many. DIYer/maker/woodworker/machinist/car mechanic/etc. Youtubers are former engineers, especially software engineers.
Agreed.
I might also argue that those people are all still engineers.
Engineer just means “problem solver”. Everyone gets paid for solving problems.
The real question in my head is how far does this go?
Sometimes the problem is that these burgers need flipping. Protein disk translocation engineers? I’m cool with that.
I’d argue that engineering, like science, is a mindset. If science asks “what” things are, engineering asks “how” to do things
A more standard definition in my tenure in academia is that scientists solve problems because they want to know the answer. Engineers solve problems because they want the problem to be solved.
In any case, the difference is just, heh, academic.
I’m very much the latter.