As was stated earlier, engineering embraces a very wide range of political beliefs and operating types. That said, the very focus on science laws, rules, theorems and proofs at the expense of philosophy, literature, critical analysis outside of the ‘scientific’ method tends to limit their view of what is really relevant and of value. The following is indeed a stereotype but is based 45+ years of intimate observation and operating experiences.
Engineers tend to be very simplistic in their analysis of anything that involves real-world economics (albeit they love the Samuelson and quantitative modeling crap that ignores human action) as well as about anything relating to politics (beyond their immediate experience), and human relations. Outside their field of concentration, they will side with those identified as experts - to the point they are extremely gullible. Fo
Want examples? How about a graduate engineer with an MBA that identifies the combustion engine as the single most damaging and evil invention of the past 200 years? That was an MIT graduate with Masters in Mechanical Engineer and a Sloan MBA.
Or, how about the PhD. in Economics whose theory for success in business was to have government-funded research to determine the proper allocation of company funds to product development, manufacturing, sales, support, marketing and appropriate profit margins for each industry - then enforce these. His proudly proclaimed basis for all the decisions in his life would be based on economic heuristics he learned during MIT’s graduate economics.
Oh, really? Does that include the engineers that post here?
Let me guess, you are not an engineer.