<p>Mapping specific courses to specific career tasks is what trade or technical school is all about… University education usually transcends above this level.</p>
<p>One may not need a psych class to tell them the difference between rules, skills, and knowledge acquisition in designing how a product or software program works, or the social/geographic issues involved with, say, unpackaging a consumer product, or the gender bias issues involved in designing voice based interfaces, but they’re all there.</p>
<p>Consider the old joke about the hapless coder who puts up a message calling “Illegal Operation”… Sorry, the user pressed the wrong button, it’s not illegal to do so for crying out loud. Or, “Operation Aborted”. Again, some people may not prefer this wording. These are all boo-boos I see in specs and have to address. </p>
<p>As you said, ‘as a group’… This extra knowledge and experience comes in handy simply because of a Gestalt-like synergy (oops, Dilbertism) where what one gets out of a number of non-engineering courses is much more than the individual contents of particular classes.</p>