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> Most of computer programming is instead tinkering Most of mechanical engineering is still tinkering. Not all problems are solved. Many of the people here pin

• balls187 5y ago
  Interdisciplinary experience is something I most engineering educations provide. I can only speak from my undergrad experience, but almost every engineering discipline took the same background courses, as well as mechanical, thermal, fluid, and electrical engineering classes and from there, went on to take courses related directly to their field. From my experience, tinkering is another way to say prototyping or building a proof of concept. As we've gained experience, the need to prototype the same solutions decreases, but when learning new tools and methodologies, experimenting and prototyping is very much part of the engineering process.