- Leonardo da Vinci - John Smeaton, first civil engineer. - James Watt, invented the steam engine, mostly self taught - Thomas Edison - Nikola Tesla - Henry Ford - LeTourneau (biggest wheel loaders in the world) - Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky (co founded rocket engineering)

or Oliver Heaviside (put Maxwell's equations in vector notation)

How do you know they called themselves engineers?

BTW, Tesla studied engineering.

Colleges and Programs are designed by administrators. Most of the subject / invention itself was often created by self-taught engineers, in all fields.

I recollect an Asimov quote. "Self Education, is the only kind of education there is"

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