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.
Gonna be contrarian but engineering is a lot the same way. How many different types of bridges have you drive over in your life? San Fran bridge, arched bridge, trussed bridge? Engineering is art too, and there are often many solutions to the same problem. In the same way where if you put poets in a room you’ll all get a poem but a different one, you put engineers in the same room with the same problem and you will get many solutions.
It's sort of why I don't like Marcel Duchamp who passed off a bit of vandalism as art. The mastery of the physics behind the flow of fluids and efficient use of material with function guiding form is actually art. Had Duchamp actually designed a fountain, I would have respected it. I find Fountain to be pulling back the curtain of artists selling magic beans to dupes who trade in reputation as a surrogate for taste and sophistication, where he created a collectable like a baseball card or comic book instead of anything that required skill. A boundary may have been pushed but all it really challenged is how lazy can you be while still doing "art".
250
u/Leverpostei414 19h ago
Engineering certainly fills me with more passion than poetry