I will try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
The Surb, BSEE, Tri-State University, 1996
I had one of those little engineer hats as a child and I’ve been known to use the word “caboose” when talking about someone’s posterior. Do I qualify?
You know, that’s probably exactly the kind of arrogance pizzabrat would expect from an engineer like you. 
And what do you think the poster in the first link was trying to imply when she expained her aversion to superflous openings and closings in e-mails with her engineer title? And in the second, you don’t think a casual grading of strangers’ intellegence, and a matter-of-fact praising of yours and your peers counts as having an inflated ego?
The engineers are practical types, not eloquent.
No. I’m pretty sure that a group of engineers would be smarter than your average group of people. And a group of PhDs would be smarter than your average group of engineers.
That engineers don’t bullshit around when they communicate. They ask/give the information they need in the least amount of time possible.
There is a difference between ego and stating the facts. Engineers, and other hard sciences, have the hardest undergrad degree there is. That is evidence that they have, on average, a higher intelligence than the general population. If you mainly interact with Engineers then yes, you will interact with the higher range of intelligence much more than you do the lower.
See, I wrote more than I needed to, and pizzabrat beat me to the punch.
I’ve alway been impressed by Engineers, those special people that fuse science & craftsmanship.
Everything you own of worth & value, or ever will own in our Industrialized society is a product of an Engineer’s labor.
No, I have no engineering credits.
So the consensus is that they’ve earned their right to be arrogant?
Wahoo! I’m in a pit thread!
Anyway, I wasn’t trying to imply anything. Engineers have no idea how to imply things, aside from actually saying it outright. (Ever tried flirting with one?) And then it’s not implication.
And you think engineers are arrogant? Have you talked to a pilot lately? 
Several of us on this board are both. What do we win?
Yes. And yet, so few of them actually are. I’ve worked with several. Most of them were the nicest guys you ever wanted to meet, in fact.
:dubious: Even when they’re on the internet?
I got my shiny history degree fewer than five years ago. I work fewer hours, make more money, and have a more interesting job than any engineer I know.
Obviousy YMMV. But engineers don’t necessarily drive the most efficient cars.
Robot monkey butlers?
I’m just a student pilot. sniffle No robot monkey butler for me yet.
An aside:
How do you know you’re talking to a pilot?
(S)he’ll tell you.
To take the OP’s side for a minute, I think this is the exact kind of bullshit attitude that he’s talking about.
Pickles are good.
You arrogant bastard.
Most of the engineers on the Dope are right nice folks, your lame-ass rant and laughable cites notwithstanding. Speaking as strictly a humanities sort of guy.
Arts student? Can you say “Would you like fries with that?”
“Thanks for bringing me into the family business, Dad! Imagine that, right out of college and I’m a VP already.”
Math Majors are scary, IMHO. THe only ones who don’t outrank math majors and philosphy majors.