People said this at my undergrad, too. "Instead Of Engineering", but same deal. Mainly, they had a reputation for a light workload, which people naturally ext

People said this at my undergrad, too. "Instead Of Engineering", but same deal. Mainly, they had a reputation for a light workload, which people naturally extrapolated into a judgment of the discipline. When this came up I always proposed the alternate explanation that Electrical Engineers' higher workload might, just might, be due to a sadomasochistically-macho department culture, and Industrial and Operations Engineers' lighter workload might be due to a curriculum designed by efficiency experts.