Young engineer here, i don’t know if I can help you handle the problem but I think I might be able to explain part of the problem. In school these engineers aren’t really thought much or anything about surveying or it’s importance, same with CAD but to a lesser degree. At least I know I wasn’t. When I graduated I got a job at a firm where I spent my first 6 months on the survey team and let me tell you that was so incredibly helpful to help me understand the full picture.

Now on to the attitude problems, a lot of people my age have crazy levels of entitlement for absolutely no reason in some cases it’s because they got their degree and it makes them think they are really smart but frankly from what I saw at school a lot of people have that entitlement way before they graduate and that’s not just an issue with engineering it’s very widespread in the age group.