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Why Hire Engineers With Disabilities? They're Practised Problem Solvers

posted by on Tuesday December 27 2016, @05:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-judge-a-book-by-its-cover dept.

AnonTechie writes:

Disabled engineers make great contributors—if they can get past the interview

[...] People with disabilities are under represented in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) jobs compared with their numbers in the overall population, according to the Bureau of Labour Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau. But those who succeed share qualities of acceptance, tenacity, and resilience. By necessity, these engineers and coders have well-honed problem-solving skills.

There are three examples quoted in the article. I am sure some of you have had similar experiences. What are your views on this?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 28 2016, @01:09AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 28 2016, @01:09AM (#446524)

    He clearly meant completely blind, not legally blind. He's also 100% correct in that spatial data is almost impossible to represent nonvisually at a decent pace. Show me a for-the-blind plugin for Eagle and prove me wrong, but in my experience, one cannot do PCB layouts easily without some sight. He never implied blind meant dumb (which means "cannot speak" fyi, not "mentally incompetent") or slow.