I do not think it is just engineers. Anybody raised for 15 years being told what to work on by their teachers, is not easily going to set his own goals. He has

I do not think it is just engineers. Anybody raised for 15 years being told what to work on by their teachers, is not easily going to set his own goals. He has been conditioned to waiting for someone else to do that. The ones more likely to overcome this bias, are students who have a close relationship with an entrepreneurial parent or other role model. They may pick up the mentality of setting their own goals. Furthermore, their peers may not be entrepreneurial either. They also need to get used to the idea that there rarely definite yes/no answers to business questions. Real-life questions do not often come out of a book.