My wife's anecdotal experience as an engineering student at CalTech may be instructive. She is very smart, but her spatial reasoning is weak. At first this wa

My wife's anecdotal experience as an engineering student at CalTech may be instructive. She is very smart, but her spatial reasoning is weak. At first this wasn't too hard for her, but it became a real issue in lab courses. Then she discovered that CS courses qualified as lab courses and were easy for her. So she got her degree, then became a programmer. So the answer that I give to you is that as soon as you actually have to any part of engineering that involves actually dealing with how physical stuff works in practice, spatial reasoning comes into play. And dealing with how physical stuff works in practice is pretty much core to being an engineer.