Obviously you didn’t get the memo. Engineers are smart, they know everything. They don’t need to consult anything or anybody.
Back in the early 80’s I think it was a Penzoil rig that sank in the gulf because Exxon engineers new everything.
I was an uneducated dummy so they werent going to listen to me.
We’re Exxon engineers. Our S@@T don’t stink.
There are some of those for sure but not many in my experience. Most, at least the ones who survive in the trade for any length of time, are smart enough to realize that they DO NOT know everything and will listen to those who have - let us say - been around for awhile.
Years ago I worked for a company in New Orleans who supplied oil and water separation equipment to rigs and drilling companies. The also provided water clarification systems for drillers and for refineries, power plants, chem companies, etc.
Occasionally we would receive request for proposals from Exxon, the owner of the company, an ex Chevron engineer, would tell us not to waste our time. Over the years he had seen the same RFPs many times. He had responded in the past with many innovative solutions to the same problems. He never received a reply.
He eventually learned that when Exxon had a training class for newly hired engineers, they would assign various projects for the engineers to work on. Sometimes, instead of attempting to solve the problems themselves the engineers would send an RFP to vendors and have the vendors solve the problem for them. They got a good grade but learned very little from the exercise.