In some fields maybe. I can tell you that at the engineering school I graduated from the faculty were pretty conservative, as were many of the students.
Agreed, I am in a doctorate program in International Studies and find myself fighting an increasing mass of liberal academics and students. You are fortunate, indeed.
In Soviet Russia during the 20's and 30's engineers were the first group the Communists went after, even before the kulaks and the church. Alexander Solzhenitsyn once remarked on how shocked he was at the number of former engineers he met in the gulags in the late 40's. Many had already been there for 15-20 years but the great majority had long ago been murdered.