All I know about "Engineers" is that one of them was the only one who noticed that Godiva rode a horse. ( So he must have been Gay? )
My mum (from Regina in the '30s) sang songs while washing the dishes in the '50s. One of her favourites (I guess it was on the radio in the '30s) was, "I am a rambling wreck from Georgia Tech and a heck of an engineer.")
Apparently they really use "hell" instead of "heck", but that does not go with "tech", so I like the heck version my mum sang.
None of which excuses silly stories about battery chargers!