EzePromoe:
[b]OP, I hope you know that there's difference between intelligence and creativity. An illiterate can be an engineer (e.g some roadside car repairers, some electricians etc) or are these people not engineers? Knowledge of engineering to some extent can be passed through vocational or informal training. There are some people who will spend 4 years in the university studying Mechanical engineering yet they won't be able to detect even the least fault in a car. Medicine on the other hand is not vocational in orientation, that's why you can't see most polytechnics offering medicine as course. Medicine students spend close to seven years studying the course. I will only agree with you if you say that generally, engineers are more skillful and innovative than their medical counterparts but when it's come to intelligence, it's a very different ball game. Engineering is all about relating ideas to real world, your intelligence has little to do here. When I was in secondary school, I wasn't articulate when it came to expressing myself in English though I could read well and comprehend but I was unbelievably a Maths genius.
I'm an engineer who studied Elect/Elect but you see I can't undermine the intelligence of medical students. I'm sorry this has to go to the medical students because they won hands down.[/b]

jaybee3:

Roadside mechanics and electricians aren't engineers duh, they are simply Technicians!

EzePromoe:

Guy, you're funny o. Engineering encapsulates all these including those 'technicians'. In fact, there is nobody whose profession is 'technician', it could be a radio technician, motor technician (which falls under engineering) and even sport technicians which in no way has anything to do with what we're discussing here. The word 'technician' is just like the word 'specialist', you can't just call someone a specialist or technician without being specific about his line of job.

jaybee3:

You wrote quite a few words but barely made any sense

How come these road side mechanics aren't able to DESIGN hybrid cars?
How come these electricians aren't able to DESIGN the next generation PIC's?

Technicians are only trained to fault find and anyone with common sense should be able to do that since manufacturers usually publish technical details of components as well as expected performance outputs needed for minimum efficiency

You ended up saying virtually nothing convincing. So prior to the days when Nigeria started manufacturing automobiles and other electronics, there were no engineers in Nigeria?

Please I will advice you to make use of at least an English dictionary before you quote me next time.

mrpackager:
ASPIRANTS THO

EzePromoe:
[b]OP, I hope you know that there's difference between intelligence and creativity. An illiterate can be an engineer (e.g some roadside car repairers, some electricians etc) or are these people not engineers? Knowledge of engineering to some extent can be passed through vocational or informal training. There are some people who will spend 4 years in the university studying Mechanical engineering yet they won't be able to detect even the least fault in a car. Medicine on the other hand is not vocational in orientation, that's why you can't see most polytechnics offering medicine as course. Medicine students spend close to seven years studying the course. I will only agree with you if you say that generally, engineers are more skillful and innovative than their medical counterparts but when it's come to intelligence, it's a very different ball game. Engineering is all about relating ideas to real world, your intelligence has little to do here. When I was in secondary school, I wasn't articulate when it came to expressing myself in English though I could read well and comprehend but I was unbelievably a Maths genius.
I'm an engineer who studied Elect/Elect but you see I can't undermine the intelligence of medical students. I'm sorry this has to go to the medical students because they won hands down.[/b]

Onozboy:
You want to compare engineering to medicine ...as a medical student a job is already waiting for you after graduation ...

Ksslib:

I wonder how somebody can in the same sentence claim engineers are innovative/creative but being creative doesn't require intelligence. Dude, for you to be creative, you need to see what others don't, and that requires a great deal of intelligence to pull through.

And don't you think your ' some mechanical engineering students spend 4yrs in the university and are not able to detect faults in a car' analogy only gives credence to the fact that engineering is just not for everyone.

You make it sound as if engineering is just a piece a cake. Its JUST all about relating ideas to the real world and it doesn't require intelligence right? Fine, you studied elect/elect if iam correct. What contribution have you made to science? After all, its just all about relating ideas to the real world .

Ahmed4002:
Ezepromeo

what about the traditional herbalist. If you called road side mechanics etc.
so under which category would you place the herbalist.

jaybee3:

Roadside mechanics and electricians aren't engineers duh, they are simply Technicians!

sparkleRed:

Taaa engineer there re, electrician and person wey student elect elect no be d same thing dem dey do, mechanical engineering student and mechanic no be d same thing dem dey do?

EzePromoe:

Guy, you're funny o. Engineering encapsulates all these including those 'technicians'. In fact, there is nobody whose profession is 'technician', it could be a radio technician, motor technician (which falls under engineering) and even sport technicians which in no way has anything to do with what we're discussing here. The word 'technician' is just like the word 'specialist', you can't just call someone a specialist or technician without being specific about his line of job.

jaybee3:


My sister no be the same thing dem they do oooo

Lemme break it down for you:
An electrician would be expected to be able to connect +ve and -ve end of electrical terminals to any device/appliance that needs electrical input.
An electrical engineer would be expected to be able to design the energy source of the electrical terminals that generates the much needed energy to power those appliances.

An engineer should be able to do effortlessly carry out duties of the technicians but the technicians can't carry out duties of the engineers