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Who is, to engineers, what Feynman is to scientists? Popular but thoughtful, represents the spirit behind the discipline.
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Engineering is naturally divergent and distinctionist where science is naturally convergent and unifying, so the model engineers tend to be domain-specific, non-celebrity, and often only known to other engineers in their specific area. Linus Torvalds is a rare public one
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Also engineering tends to be looser in drawing credential boundaries unlike physics, since the scope is vaster. So yes, I’d include Elon Musk as engineering role model even though he’s not one technically Another such example is Admiral Hyman Rickover (nuclear engineering)
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