the engineer "malgré lui"?

the engineer "malgré lui"?

this is in no way an anti-engineering satire, as it was Moliere's anti-médicale satire:: 
"le medicin malgré lui"
on the contrary dear reader, don't you think it's time to give engineers & you, the
respect they & you, really deserve?

written...in recognition of Rodney Mullen's (t: mullenrodney) extraordinary achievements
as a skateboarder; he is one of those who created & still creates what never was,
without having an engineering background.
in this respect, he was & is an engineer "in spite of himself", or as they would say in
french: "malgré lui".   
check out some of his tricks, the: "darkslide", "kickflip", "underflip", "heelflip",
do you think that he made them possible & generally repeatable, using his
... "geometrical thinking and intelligence?" as defined in skate1st's post, written 7/6/14? :)

... more here than meets the eye...

also have your say here...
in the wake of higher education systems becoming more expensive pretty much
everywhere, tell others like you (engineers or not), what your present concerns.
might be...