Myths about Engineers

Written by Seungyeon Lee

When you imagine what engineers are like, how do you picture them? When I google 'engineers' in Google, the image of a engineers are mostly men wearing the hard hat and holding a big paper with a structural design in it. Also, as I google 'chemical engineers' the image of them are people holding the beaker with unknown chemicals in it.

As I mentioned before, chemical engineers not only do the research wearing gowns and goggles, but also they can design products or sell them without wearing gowns and goggles. I think pictures shown in google images are very stereotypical. So I wanted to talk about some stereotypes of engineers people have.

1. Engineers are Geeks.
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a word 'geek' is a person who is very interested in and knows a lot about a particular field or activity, which means 'geek' cannot be only used in technology related people but it can also be related with sports, business, music, or game related.

2. Engineers are good at math and love math
Well, I personally am good at math compared to other subjects. However, it cannot be defined as that I love math and I have seen a lot of engineers who wants to finish their math courses because they do not like math. So this is totally a myth!

3. Engineering school is difficult.
I admit. It requires students to study a lot and to learn lots of things that are hard. However, I think other fields are also hard for students in order to be professional. Also, as long as you are interested in engineering or if you clearly decided to be a engineer in the future, I think even though it is hard to study a lot of stuff during college, it is definitely worth it!

Works Cited: "Common Myths About Engineers." The Creative Engineer. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Feb. 2017.