Question: Why do you think people focus on the physical aspect of engineering?

Matthew Gall answered on 12 Mar 2015:

Hey Me!

Great question! I think there is something that we can understand when the problems that we need to solve are physical, we can touch and feel and rotate and see them in our hands. As it is physical, and we can interact with it, we can innately understand it easier than things that I deal with that are a stream of zeros and ones going across a wire to your computer!

However, that doesn’t make non-physical engineering any less important. With the rise of technology, we’re going to see demand for software engineers and other computing related disciplines become increased, and at the current rate, we’re simply not getting enough people entering engineering to fulfil the demand!