Engineers have to be Kinesthetic?

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<p>I’m contemplating on switching my major, but I’m not a Kinesthetic learner.</p>

<p>Is that a problem?</p>

<p>Can engineers be Auditory learners?</p>

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<p>of course. you can be any type of learner. visual, auditory… get scratch and sniff textbooks if you want. i find it hard to believe that this is a legitimate question. either that or people worry too much about little things these days.</p>

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<p>Stupid Question - the only person stopping you is you.</p>

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<p>I don’t think this is a stupid question at all, given many of the stereotypes that exist of engineers and engineering students (ie they are “always” kids who loved to tinker, build, take things apart, and are always “hands on learners”). This has even been suggested in some studies that have been done as well. For instance, here is a link to an older study on the learning styles of engineering students compared to the typical teaching methods used in engineering classes, which concludes that engineering students are typically visual, sensory, inductive, active/kinesthetic learners whereas the typical engineering education is auditory, abstract, deductive, passive and sequential. </p>

<p>However, your learning style (auditory, visual, kinesthetic) should not determine your career choice, but is only a guideline on how you might best learn ANY subject you are interested in. In fact, as an auditory learner you may do well in the often large, lecture style introductory classes that frequently do seem to weed out many engineering students.</p>

<p><a href=“Teaching and Learning STEM”>Teaching and Learning STEM;

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<p>We live in an age where information is so easily available that people no longer have any confidence in themselves. People have weird notions about everything and seem to believe humans are like robots and have no ability to outgrow their limitations. Look, it doesn’t matter what type of a learner you are (why do you even care about that?)… do engineering if you like it!</p>

<p>@scansmom: I’m just waiting for some schizophrenic to become an extremely good engineer, and then there will be a movie about it, and everyone will be amazed. The point being, that studies are a dime a dozen these days, but are you going to be a “study” or what you want to be?</p>

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<p>I only wished that I was more of an auditory learner; maybe I could pay attention better!</p>