Belated welcome Psiecton,
Great sciencie intro btw. I like your point about engineering types from facts based science backgrounds who often lack creative thinking or don't truly apply the scientific method. At least I thinks that's what you were saying. In the past I've heard the argument from muslim guy X that, "muslim guy Y is an engineer and he studied science and he's still a muslim". As if to suggest that even though 'he knows all about science and stuff' he still kept his faith hence some how proving that Islam must be true(They probably think they're evening being super logical about it, using their own distorted attempt at scientific method lol). If you get me?
Anyways I think it's a really good plan you moving to another country to study, with a bit of determination and the right set up can't see it not going well for you.
Here have a
and a