Question: Do you ever use any of your engineering skills in everyday life outside of your work place?

Diana Mathew answered on 9 Nov 2017:

Yes,absolutely.

From my experience, engineering and science equips one with a lot of transferable skills; conditions the brain to look at things more analytically. For example, a couple of years ago we did a major extension work to our home and I helped my mom in project managing it. Even though it was all about construction, electrical wiring, plumbing etc. it was easier to drill into the numbers and establish logical relations between things and ask the builders the right questions, not over spending on materials, comfortably argue tweaks to the designs with facts.

Irrespective of the specialisation, mathematics and physics forms the basis of an engineering degree which means you get good at processing numbers, visualising structures, logical relations on how things work/ interact and I find myself doing it even outside work – be it baking, gardening or DIY.