<p>Look what I’ve started. </p>
<p>Dang.</p>
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<p>^^ It’s all your fault! j/k.</p>
<p>To add to Plattsburgh’s list, there should also be hospitals for people who aren’t sick.</p>
<p>I think the original poster’s question is valid. If there is a dearth of hispanic and black engineers, why is that?</p>
<p>As for why there are not more women in engineering, I think it has something to do with the fact that teenage girls come to see math and science as not cool, not feminine and not something that popular people do. By the time they realize how misguided they were, it is difficult to bridge the academic gap.</p>
<p>Sorry Facade, I didn’t mean to aid in the derailing of your thread.</p>
<p>My father is a civil engineer at the DOT in Manhattan and he’s black. Currently a project manager and has other engineering related degrees, architecture…</p>
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<p>Same. My apologies.</p>
<p>Not too good at detecting sarcasm, are you Platts? I was not suggesting we establish white male societies. More so I was saying these societies are being allocated school money for doing nothing. They can go find fellow minorities/women in their own time and arrange their own events without draining the school’s money and it’s all the same. Or they can get money and actually do something related to being minorities/women like debating the issues or mentoring/preaching to HS students about science and engineering. Either one is fine with me. The present situation is not.</p>
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<p>Not too good at detecting when you’re being spoken to, are you Shiney?
My comment was in regard to the entire thread. Not just you. These boards have this strange ability to put posts one after another.</p>
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<p>Is architecture considered part of engineering? Because it’s something I’m considering going in to, but I don’t know much about it yet.</p>
<p>^^ Does Brown even have architecture?</p>
<p>Not exactly. I mean, there’s this architectural engineering, but most schools don’t offer it as a major and in fact, consider it something different entirely.</p>
<p>And @ Plattsburgh and WantsBrown:: You’re forgiven.</p>
<p>Really? I should probably research this more. I want to shadow somebody in the field before deciding though.</p>
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<p>I don’t know, I haven’t checked yet. This is just something on the back of my mind. I want to make sure I want to pursue it first.</p>
<p>Brown, try here for better advice: [Architecture</a> Major - College Discussion](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/architecture-major/]Architecture”>Architecture Major - College Confidential Forums)</p>
<p>Platts…lovin the sarcasm…i think we’re soul mates</p>
<p>Oh no. This ain’t no love connection thread! =P</p>
<p>Architecture is not engineering (or even architectural engineering for that matter). It is more of an “art” major rather than a math/science major.</p>
<p>Ken, that is far from true. Architecture is NOT an engineering major, but neither is it an art major. Architecs require a great deal of math to construct their designs. Many universities even have it posted as its own college within the university. True, they must have artistic skill to be successful at what they do but that in no way merely classifies them as “more of an art degree”.</p>
<p>They equally use math and art, so their basically in a class all their own.</p>
<p>I am not saying it is an art major, but it values creativity first and it is more important than your math/physics aptitude.</p>
<p>In that aspect, yes. However your creativity will mean nothing without a proper math/physics background.</p>
<p>There is an American Assembly for Men in Nursing. Presumably the majority of members would be white. It’s all about unique concerns of a demographic minority in a discipline. The general discipline professional organization(s) likely already represents the majority of the discipline and so no one as seen the need to start a separate majority oriented organization.</p>