I spent about a decade getting my PhD/MS/BS in EE. I can’t recall any instructors ever expressing political ideas of any sort in their official capacities, and that’s both as a student and in various TA and RA positions. There must have been some side comments on politics, but I never felt any pressure associated with them.
Part of it was probably the engineering culture and personality—engineers tend to be intellectually confident and are happier disagreeing than agreeing. PC social pressure can’t find a lot of purchase in such an environment.
I spent about a decade getting my PhD/MS/BS in EE. I can’t recall any instructors ever expressing political ideas of any sort in their official capacities, and that’s both as a student and in various TA and RA positions. There must have been some side comments on politics, but I never felt any pressure associated with them.
Part of it was probably the engineering culture and personality—engineers tend to be intellectually confident and are happier disagreeing than agreeing. PC social pressure can’t find a lot of purchase in such an environment.