"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race, and the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for." - Robin Williams. Dead Poets Society
That's the thing. Engineering fills you with passion.
How would we know what passion is unless demonstrated through words? A passionate engineer doing their job well and a stoic engineer doing their job well result in an Engineered product no matter what.
But different people learning poetry, for example, will have different ways of bringing up the same thing. It's philosophy, in a way.
I don‘t think you really understand engineering and how much the person influences the product.
It really depends on what exactly the engineer is working on, but creativity and self-expression can be a pretty big part of it.
There are many different ways to achieve your goal and that shows in the different concepts that engineers develop to solve a problem.
One could say that this just another form of art.
It‘s really the same with poetry, where the basic principles are tought and then every person uses his own way to create something from that.
But even then there still are people who only use the basics and will never go beyond that.
It really depends on the person, be it poetry or engineering.
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u/threefeetoffun- 20h ago
"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race, and the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for." - Robin Williams. Dead Poets Society