Who do you think is more intelligent Physicists or Engineers?

Answer 1

I'll tell you what my physics teacher told me in my Physics I for engineering class. "A physicist can tell you how much rocket fuel to put in a shuttle to get it into space. An engineer will tell you how to steer it directly within 1 inc of the satellite." Physicists tend to be right brained thinkers. They think on a broad sense and tackle hard and impressive problems that will settle for rough answers. Engineers tend to be left brained thinkers and analyze every detail. They tend to focus on very exact answers for problems that rely vastly on equations. I'm an engineer, and my teacher was a physicist. I HATED it when he said that pi (3.141592654) equaled, eh, 3, and gravity (9.812) equaled, eh, 10. :)

Answer 2

Engineers are often unemployed, because they work on projects funded by people whose confidence in the value of the project varies with time. The people funding the project will sometimes get the impression that the project is getting more setbacks than progress, and that their money is going into a black hole.

That's just part of the nature of engineering, and there isn't much anyone can do about it.

But ask yourself how intelligent a person could be who would choose a career whose most salient feature is unemployment.

Physicists on the other hand have to be very intelligent to be successful. If they aren't very intelligent, they soon become irrelevant and redundant, and end up finding some other line of work, which means they aren't really physicists.

So, overall, physicists tend to be a lot more intelligent than engineers.

Answer 3

Individuals in each of these fields may be more intelligent than some members in the other field. I would say that both are intelligent but the specialization makes them unique. I am an engineer and I wouldn't want to match wits with a physicist in his field just as I presume the physicist wouldn't want to match wits with me in my field.

Answer 4

Overall the cream of the crop will probably go towards physics since it has more unknown possibilities. I mean come on, superstring theory??? More than four dimensions? That takes a lot of smarts AND abstract thought in relation to things that are very very hard to prove.

Answer 5

You have to have a good analytical brain to be either of these. I vote for both.