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		izacus on Aug 16, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo Is the difference you're trying to paint perhaps a US only thing? I've never heard of this type of differentiation.

mpweiher on Aug 16, 2017 [–]

The exact delineation of "liberal arts" seems to be a US thing (not sure about "only").

However, in Germany we also have "Naturwissenschaften" and "Ingenieurwissenschaften".

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenieurwissenschaften

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturwissenschaft

So it's a common distinction: figuring out how nature works vs building stuff.

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