Engineering only cares about results...really. i bet countless minorities throughout history disagree...
Are some minorities unqualified?? Hell yes...but what about all the ones that wereand never had a chance...
What about them? There were many peasants in China, Russia, and elsewhere who might have been engineers, but their cultures historically were too backward to have a need for more than a handful of engineers. Besides, peasants in semi-feudal or socialist societies have very few opportunities at anything, including eating regularly in many cases. As for the US, engineering wasn’t professionalized until the 20th Century. Before then, there were no PE certifications or education requirements. Edison, Ford, and the Wright Brothers just went off and did things on their own. Now, I know you are trolling the “women and minorities” whine...for nearly 50 years they have had more than equal opportunity in a professionalized engineering environment. They haven’t made much of it, if you assume, as you do, that interest in engineering and motivation, among other things, are equally distributed.
If you could do well on your SATs, and wanted to be an engineer, then you would be accepted in engineering school.
If you had potential as a child, but that potential got wasted in a ghetto school where most of the students were hostile to learning, then that’s unfortunate.