<p>And yet, how does your example lend itself to your claim that a PhD can do the work of 100 BS engineers?</p>
<p>A PhD is certainly capable of doing the work of a BS engineer, after all, he/she has a BS. There is nothing to say that a PhD is better at a BS job than the a BS is at that same job. The simple fact is that those jobs don’t require a PhD so the person with the PhD would not really have that much of an advantage over a BS engineer in that case. They may have a few more experiences to draw off of, but there honestly won’t generally be anything that they have to do in that sort of job that a PhD would be better suited to do than a BS engineer.</p>
<p>The reverse, of course, isn’t true. The jobs typical of a PhD engineer would be nigh impossible for a BS engineer. No one is arguing that. Still, that does not make a PhD engineer intrinsically a better engineer than someone who has only a BS. It just makes them competent for the more advanced jobs.</p>
<p>I don’t need you to tell me what PhD engineers do to get their degree. I am fully aware of the degree requirements, as I am in a PhD program. Even as a (future) PhD engineer, I can still honestly tell you that it won’t necessarily make me a better engineer than my BS counterparts. It just gives me a unique set of competencies.</p>