Hi bentway; Re the politics of engineers; In my years doing engineering, my experience was that software engineers tend to be somewhat liberal but other engineers are quite conservative. Let's see if I can find some polling data:
Engineers tend to view themselves as much less liberal and slightly more conservative than the general public, according to a recent survey of over 1,200 readers of MACHINE DESIGN and Electronic Design magazines. The same survey also found that engineers say they are more likely to be Republican (42.1%) or Independent (33.7%) voters, as opposed to Democrats (14.5%). And although over a third of the engineers think Republicans represent the best interests of the engineering community better than Democrats, a majority of engineers (48.1%) believe neither party is really on the side of engineers.
machinedesign.com
Bush favored over Kerry in November vote
EE (Electrical Engineering) Times, 8/25/2004
It may be a tight race in the national polls, but the design and development community is clearly behind President George W. Bush in this year's presidential contest. By a 48 percent to 40 percent margin, respondents favor re-electing the president over electing challenger Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts.
Our respondents offered that support despite their apparently declining faith in the vibrancy of the U.S. technology industry. Salaries are up, unemployment is down and product development starts have picked up — but only a third of the engineers and managers who responded to our survey said they believe American technology is forging ahead.
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eetimes.com
EE Turn-ons, turn-offs
EE Times, 6/2/2003
... EE Times and marketing communications firm McClenahan Bruer Communications (Portland, Ore.) commissioned an Internet survey ...
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Similar surveys were conducted in 1999 and 2001. As in the past, it was no surprise this year to find that the bulk of the respondents were male (95 percent) and middle-aged (the mean age of this year's group is 44.9 years, slightly older than the 2001 survey mean age of 40.9 years). The western United States is home to just over a third, or 36.4 percent, of this year's respondents.
Most of the respondents are design engineers (73 percent). Among industry segments, test and instrumentation claimed the largest single percentage of respondents (24 percent).
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Engineers take their civic duty seriously. They vote in national, state and local elections and tend to be Republican (43 percent) or independent voters (24 percent); 16 percent said they vote the Democratic ticket. They describe themselves as social moderates (44 percent).
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Surveys were sent to 15,000 North American design engineers and managers. Some questions offered multiple choices. The 2003 study of 680 usable re-sponses (received March 18-March 27) has a confidence level of +/-3.6 percent. Beacon Technology Partners LLC tabulated the results.
eetimes.com
Here's a list that is supposed to be US congressmen with PhDs, engineering degrees, etc., don't know if it's accurate and it does not give party (but you can look it up):
engineering.curiouscatblog.net
-- Carl |
