Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo

Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by mpweiher on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @02:56AM (#15025464)

My bad, I should have been more precise: natural science, which is part of a "liberal arts" education.

"Academic areas that are associated with the term liberal arts include:

Arts (fine arts, music, performing arts, literature)

Mathematics

Natural science (biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, earth science)

Philosophy

Religious studies

Social science (anthropology, economics, geography, political science, psychology, sociology, Linguistics, history)"

Note the absence of engineering disciplines.

Vs. engineering or engineering sciences.

See for example how Stanford groups things (CS is part of the "School of Engineering").

And then note the difference in enrollment in "chemistry" (the science) and "chemical engineering"

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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by izacus on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @05:08AM (#15026014)

Is the difference you're trying to paint perhaps a US only thing? I've never heard of this type of differentiation.

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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by mpweiher on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @05:41AM (#15026165)

The exact delineation of "liberal arts" seems to be a US thing (not sure about "only").

However, in Germany we also have "Naturwissenschaften" and "Ingenieurwissenschaften".

So it's a common distinction: figuring out how nature works vs building stuff.

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