I have to disagree. To the degree that you care to differentiate between different schools and different sub-programs, almost no two randomly selected mechanical engineering degrees will be precisely equivalent.The Corporal wrote:And, what? How is what he engineers relevant to this discussion? He still completed his engineering education, meaning he's got the same mechanical engineering knowledge as an engineer working for any other company with an equivilant education.
What he engineers, and what he specialized in while at school, is relevant to the same (limited) degree that the fact that it's mechanical engineering as opposed to some other field.
In a general sense, his education is pretty much equivalent to Graham Kennedy's - he has a bachelor's degree, Graham Kennedy has a bachelor's degree. Both emphasize a certain amount of physics, which is then applicable to VS debate.
It only becomes more or less relevant when we go into something that MW as a mechanical engineer has covered or works with regularly that GK as a physics teacher does not, or vice versa. And then we should be concerned with specifics.