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Then I guess by this logic the CEO of Boeing (who has a degree in accounting) is also an engineer?

• fsociety 6y ago
  Well did he do many years of engineering work? It’s perfectly valid to become a chemical engineer, demonstrate knowledge in electrical engineering, and then become an electrical engineer without a degree. This is an accepted path.
  • dharmon 6y ago
    I think this is the point of the article. Besides some coding a long time ago, nobody has presented evidence that he's ever done actual engineering. Do you think PMs should be able to call themselves engineers? They know the work pretty well, many (at least in SV) have undergrad degrees in STEM, they can talk the lingo. They've just never actually written code. Some people would even protest PMs who used to be engineers still calling themselves that. I think Musk knows things at the level of a technically-strong PM. But I think if you asked him to some basic tasks in structural engineering, for instance, he would have no idea what to do.
• xt00 6y ago
  An undergrad degree in physics from my personal observation is typically quite math heavy and you learn mechanics, electrical theory, and many people in their 2nd year for their senior projects build fairly practical things. No idea what that was like back in the 90s for somebody like Elon. So I think its a bit different from an accounting degree.