What do most Americans know about engineering? Not much, according to a recent Harris Poll conducted for the American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES). Respondents said they know more about science, and are more likely to associate invention and discovery with scientists than with engineers.
AAES helped develop the poll, titled "American Perspectives on Engineers and Engineering," after a June Harris Poll measuring the prestige of various professions showed that engineers have "consistent but mediocre prestige" in the eyes of the general public. (Medicine was most often identified as a profession of "very great" prestige, while journalism and union leadership held the …
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