I went to RPI (Rensselaer in upstate NY) a 2nd tier engineering college behind the 2 Techs, in the mid 80s, and while perhaps not the majority, the left-winger had the loudest voice on campus.
The ridiculous thing was how *trendy* the idiots were, following the fads sweeping the Ivy’s as wannabe’s — one year its was Nuke Freeze, then Divest Now, then ‘the homeless’. Pathetic.
I just spent a year back in industry after taking a break a few years to teach computer science as an instructor at a state university. The CS & IS faculty were mostly left-leaning. OTOH, the large majority of the students I got to teach from engineering were right-leaning.
Perhaps the engineers have a more concrete focus on the real world than even the scientists.
Also, perhaps software in general may be more susceptible to liberal dogma, because the focus on symbol manipulation makes it not as different as you’d think at first glance from the noise of much of the humanities bunch.
