What are the biggest misconceptions society has about engineers?

@thebigk • Oct 27, 2024

Oct 27, 2024

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What do you think are the biggest misconceptions society has about engineers? I'm especially focusing on the misconceptions the non-engineers have about engineers.

Here's one: Being an engineer - they expect I can fix any gadget in a minute 😕

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Sanyam Khurana

@sanyam-Nl7Zqc • Jun 21, 2013

Correction : Not any gadget, but even household things like fan, tubelight, tv and anything else 😛
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lal

@lal-R60Xjx • Jun 21, 2013

Actually right now, the misconceptions are taking an opposite turn 😁 People started saying "Oh, he is an engineer. He knows nothing. Just like tens of thousands of other engineers trying hard to secure even the pass mark in the university." They have started to laugh silently at engineering graduates.

They think all are same. Yeah, we know that we'll prove them wrong, but they don't. It is just a matter of time.
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CE Designer

@ce-designer-BWq0yl • Jun 21, 2013

For me, a big one is that we are highly paid.
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Sanyam Khurana

@sanyam-Nl7Zqc • Jun 21, 2013

CE Designer
For me, a big one is that we are highly paid.
lol
👍
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zaveri

@zaveri-5TD6Sk • Jun 24, 2013

Misconception number 3 : we are supposed to be "know-it-alls." from preparing tea to the fabrication of a rocket, we are supposed to everything about anything.
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lovebox

@lovebox-ZyXFqj • Jun 24, 2013

Here's another one: Requests from the parents of school students in the neighbourhood during their ward's examination to suggest a few important questions that have a high probability of appearing in their question papers, especially science and math. If you refuse, you are branded as 'Rude', 'Mean', etc, etc,...
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