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It's a different kind of critical thinking. I know plenty of engineering students who struggled hard in courses that made them think a little.
I'm not saying engineering isn't a great degree. It's awesome if you want to be an engineer. But in terms of being a well-rounded critical thinker, hard sciences leave a lot lacking. The universities have cut so much of the core education classes that hard science majors don't get a well-rounded education anymore.
I was a biochemistry major for 3 years before I switched to philosophy of science, so I know the curriculum for a hard science major. I realized 1. I hated working in labs, and 2. I didn't want to be a doctor or geneticist, so I turned my minor in philosophy into a major...and proceeded to make up a crap-ton of core education classes I had been able to skip as a science major. Those classes are what really taught me things relevant to life out in the world, and I realized after that what I had missed out on.
That's why I have that opinion. It isn't because I have a liberal arts degree, as ATN says... It's because I was able to see first hand what is missing in a technical curriculum.
Nah, sorry, I don't agree. A true engineer is able to think logically and critically. That's the progressiveness of engineering, how to make some thing cheaper/better/faster as well as make things that has never been done before. I took a few philosophy classes too, what I got out of them is there was nothing in them useful to the real world. Interesting discussions, sure, but I didn't gain anything that I didn't already have.