The psychology department was engaged in a personality assessment project involving student analysis of a subject's reaction to various objects. Clipboard in hand, the student stands near the professor as the subjects approach. The room is set up with various props in order to move through the assessment quickly. The first person to enter the room starts the test.
"How does this glass of water look to you?" asks the professor.
"It is half empty," comes the reply. The student checks "pessimist" as the personality description.
A second person enters the room. "How does this glass of water look to you?"
"It's half full." The student checks "optimist."
A third person enters. "How does this glass of water look to you?"
"Looks like you have twice as much glass as you need there."
The student is utterly bewildered and looks toward the professor.
"I forgot to warn you," mutters the professor, "engineering students HAVE no personality ..."
---------------A Final Thought ...
"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering."
- Freeman Dyson (b. 1923), U.S. physicist