[catnipman]

Just goes to show you how valuable engineers are to any organization they join, regardless of the position they take! After all, by training, engineers are professional problem solvers, and the best are also innovative thinkers. Engineers aren't simply daydreamers either, as their training includes the tools to actually solve the problem, not just think up the solution. That is, engineers are both thinkers and doers.

Engineers are also taught that their actions have consequences and that they are accountable. After all, if the bridge you design falls down and kills everyone on it due to a faulty design, there's not exactly a whole lot of finger-pointing you can do. Not to mention the fact that your firm will probably be sued out of existence.

That being said, it doesn't look like Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was much of an engineer. I'll give him an A for ingenuity for smuggling his bomb on board, though even that may be debatable due to the pathetic security apparatus of the U.S. Nonetheless, since his bomb failed to explode and destroy the planeload of people it was designed to kill, I'm afraid I'd have to give him an F on that part of the assignment. Overall, I'd have to flunk engineer Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on his initial engineering endeavor.

[Nepeta]

Just goes to show you how valuable engineers are to any organization they join, regardless of the position they take! After all, by training, engineers are professional problem solvers, and the best are also innovative thinkers.

It used to drive my chem e ex-husband crazy when I could solve practical problems of design and organization in more economical and elegant ways than he proposed. It would make him even crazier to know that after we went our separate ways the kind of grades I got in calculus and physical chemistry.

Not all engineers are created equally. Some aren't very good.