Meditative Engineer...Oxymoron?

Eventually I came back to the title of "Meditative Engineer...Oxymoron?" Testing the idea that engineers, the more applied straight laced version of physicists, chemists and the like, would be open minded enough to try meditation. Forget the mystical astral projection component, could we still our brains long enough to give meditation a try, and what would be the result. Thus, the experiment began.