thomaschau

"In my opinion most people who get a B.S or Ph.D degree in Engineering do it for the money, while most who get a Ph.D in one of the Biological/Life/Medical Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, or Physical Sciences do it because they want to help mankind."

If engineers wanted to make money, they'd take their brilliant minds and move to Wall Street. And they sometimes do. Lots of math/physics majors do as well.

I'm sure all the engineers that are building hospitals and making better microscopes and nicer wheelchairs are in it allllll for that beautiful yummy green cash.

Have you ever thought that people might go into a career because they love it? I've never met someone who wanted to do math to save mankind... he just likes math.

Not every 'medical researcher' or biochemist is inventing a cure for cancer. Plenty of them are just making collagen injections and botox or some other frivolous little thing. And as someone else stated, quite a few engineers are working on surgical robots and medical devices such as MRIs... but of course, they're only in it for the money, right? They can't POSSIBLY be developing medical instruments for the good of mankind. We all know that defibrillator design is just a huge goldmine.

And what's this obsession of BS versus PhD? A guy still has to work for years to get to the end, and the statistics indicate that the 'end' for either tracks leads to the same place: 100k and some change.


Again, if you want money, you go into business. If you love to do something, you do it.

Everyone has value to add to society. Well, almost everyone. I'm starting to wonder what stock brokers and used car salesmen are for. But engineers sure as hell aren't just a bunch of money-grubbing vultures. The only thing that separates them from people majoring in Math/Pure Science/Medical Science is the fact that they are APPLIED scientists. What difference does that make? Hmm.

If you really wanna claim that someone is useless, I'd say go yell at the business school board.