I heard recently that engineering is becoming common amongst Frum people in Israel. I heard this from a Dati Leumi friend whose daughter and son-in-law are both studying engineering. They are each studying different types of engineering – apparently there are a lot of different kinds.
Apparently the hours are better than the hours of computer programmers. I have a brother-in-law who’s an engineer and a brother who’s a computer programmer, and my bil seems to have much more normal working hours than my brother does.