Here you notice that engineering involves a lot of general culture, and making a good engineer starts at birth.

When I was a baby I asked my dad to draw power outlets, we had Legos, we’ve visited dozens of factories, I did a dozen programming languages before 18, I’ve always gathered data about things (Ok a nuclear plant is 1GW, a plane has 20t of fuel, etc), and I’m an average engineer.

Meanwhile my bigger sister has technical but never much about making things work, we went to the same engineering school but she ended up project manager because she can’t do the engineering job. So she manages people.