[res]

I might be wrong, but I was under the impression that engineering, with the exception of software engineering, was still very much a "suit and tie" field.

[arethuza]

Wearing a tie is often expressly forbidden in a lot of environments.

[mjwalshe]

depends on sector when I used to work in hydrodynamics (in teh nuclear engineering section) it was mostly lab coats jeans and wellies.