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epitome of incomprehensibility
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How is this not a word yet? It deserves to be a word.
My mom's father, Grandpa, was a mechanical engineer in his working life. He was also a rail travel enthusiast. So, when I was young, I figured he worked with trains (instead of working on machines for an electric company). At age 8, I thought engineer = train engineer.
You'd think that growing up would make me at least passably familiar with the field, but I didn't even know civil enginering existed until 2016 - or, if I did, I wouldn't have been able to tell you what it was. (About designing and maintaining infrastructure things like road systems, bridges, canals.)
That was courtesy of working admin for the tutoring centre, which I can't say I always liked (see make_your_own_stereotypes, for instance), but I did learn a little bit about the vast field, namely:
-Civil engineering exists
-HVAC stands for "heating, ventilation, air conditioning"
-Polytechnique isn't just the college where a terrible shooting happened when I was a baby (the_polytechnique_effect)
-Biomedical engineering is a thing
-Chemical engineering is also a thing, and at least a few chemical engineering grads can teach chemistry courses AND explain to you at an office party why aged cheese might not bother you, a lactose intolerant (something about enzymes)
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