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13 September 2009 | Posted inFeatured, Pictures, Weird

Perception of Engineers

Not too long ago, fellow HOK blogger Justin wrote about the perception of architects. I rather enjoyed that blog and wanted to do a sort of counter/comparison with the perception of engineers.

For starters, I went to a search engine and typed in “structural engineer” images. I was not surprised to see some rather silly images…but also a lot of construction site images…

The next thing I did was to ask around to see what the perception was of an engineer, or …

HOK Engineering at Career Fair

I have to admit that I didn’t really know what an engineer was until late in high school when I started looking at colleges. Even then I wasn’t sure what an engineer did, I only knew they took a lot of math classes. That seemed right up my alley so I pursued it. Now, years later, it’s what I do, I have a better understanding of what an engineer does (or so you all hope), and I …