Technically, the Italian word corresponding to engineer is ingegnere. However, there is a profound, structural difference between the two profiles, even though the etymology is clearly the same, given the morphological similarity1. Unfortunately, this similarity often leads to misunderstandings, as it is believed that the two qualifications are essentially the same, regardless of the country … Continue reading Engineer ≠ Ingegnere
The engineers’ anthropological ranking
Mathematicians Physicists Engineers Everybody else Engineers see humanity this way. Despite their proverbial boundless self-confidence, they award themselves the bronze medal because of their ancestral inferiority complex with respect to mathematicians — the holders of the purest truth available to humankind — and physicists, to whom they envy the superior knowledge of the mathematical and, … Continue reading The engineers’ anthropological ranking