<p>As a junior electrical engineer here are my observations regarding girls in engineering</p>
<p>1) less than average looking
2) have boyfriends
3) boyfriends not in engineering</p>
<p>Okay, how does this work? It would make sense if 1 and 2 are true and 3 false due to the high guy to girl ratio. Ie, i'd except the boyfriends to be in engineering. </p>
<p>Point 3 doesn't really make sense because if they are below average in looks, why do they always have boyfriends (not in engineering)?</p>
<p>We have magical pheromones that attract non-engineers.</p>
<p>This may be hard to believe but some guys like girls who are intelligent and not obsessed about their looks. Even harder to believe these women also have other qualities and interests not limited to engineering so they meet guys in other places than engineering classes and labs.</p>
<p>I don’t agree with #1.</p>
<p>there are two girls on campus that turn heads. The types that hard too find even in an art school. trust me, they are few but they are around. Just see, dont touch 
(thats what the guys say, lol)</p>
<p>I tend to find that women follow that Three S’s rule. This is in general, not limited to engineering. </p>
<p>The three S’s being Sexy, Single, and Smart. Women tend to only have two. Then again, some day the men are the same? I dunno.</p>
<p>You sample pool is too small to have any statistical significance.</p>
<p>yes…i know, thats why i’m hoping other engineering students on the board can contribute.</p>
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<p>I’ve heard this being called the Tripod Theory. You never get all of them :)</p>
<p>In EE the girls were less than average looking. Most of them had boyfriends but they were equally ugly. Occasionally there would be a head turner. I found that the girls in civil and industrial engineering were quite normal looking.</p>
<p>That’s right alibarr, we do! </p>
<p>Clearly female engineers are desirable girlfriends given #2… whether we have all of the Three S’s or not.</p>
<p>Why does it matter? Do you want to date female engineers, and don’t, because of #1 or #2? Maybe if we’re finding boyfriends outside engineering, male engineers can find girlfriends outside engineering, where #1 might not be the case. Except I do remember a thread here a while back where male engineers weren’t able to find non-engineering girlfriends…</p>
<p>As a female engineering student, I had three serious boyfriends: one astrophysics major and two civil engineering majors. I married the last one and we started our own business together.</p>
<p>I have to say that your point #1 applied pretty well to the males in my classes, too!</p>
<p>In these bad economical times a smart, well respected, low maintainance, high wage earner will be the new trophy girlfriend.
Female engineers got it goin’ on, Bret.</p>
<p>I agree with #1 and #2</p>
<h1>1 is due to the fact that they’re too busy to care about their looks. The majority of girls, if they put time and effort into it, can boost their level of attractiveness significantly, be it through exercising, choosing fashionable clothes, carefully applying makeup, styling their hair, etc. Engineers tend to not be so concerned with such superficial things and in a lot of cases simply not have the time to do these things.</h1>
<h1>2 Is true because they are surrounded by males in their classes. When they study with groups of people, they are surrounded by males. When they want to have a conversation about something technical, it’s usually with males. And conveniently, these males tend to have lower standards (there aren’t many girls in their classes, so they jump at whatever chances they get). So yes, female engineers are usually taken very quickly.</h1>
<h1>3 is false. I’ve actually found the opposite to be true.</h1>
<p>I’d say male engineers spend even less time on their looks than female engineers do</p>
<p>^Well yeah, that makes sense. Seeing as in general males spend less time on their looks than females do.</p>
<p>Female engineers usually tend to be biomedical or computer engineering majors right?</p>
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<p>Really - take a critical look in the mirror, guys, before criticizing. I had the uncomfy experience of listening to a bunch of male engineers badmouthing a very nice ‘next door’ looks girl. These were not Gods of Beauty making these complaints.</p>
<p>^^^ LOL! I had gotten in GOOD shape in grad school, so I didn’t look too shabby. At the beginning of one semester, a bunch of newbie guys walked into my class and sat down in front of me. I remember thinking, “Wow, not much of a crop this semester!”</p>
<p>The rest of the story: One of those guys ended up being my husband. He cleaned up pretty well, after I convinced him to ditch the heavy black glasses and western shirts, and use deodorant! So first impressions aren’t always correct. :-)</p>
<p>I don’t see why it’s necessarily hypocritical for ugly people to call other people ugly. Can someone explain this to me? Can’t someone who’s below average in quality X still comment on other people’s deficiencies in quality X?</p>
<p>^^^ Well, it would have been different if it had been worded, “Have you noticed that PEOPLE in engineering are less than average looking.” Why single out women? It would be similar to a white person asking, “Have you noticed that black people are [fill in deficiency]…” It’s insulting.</p>