The Huffington Post UK – Peter Luff
“Our national security and our future competitiveness and prosperity all depend on bringing more people into engineering at all levels. But we need rather different skills from the conventional ones engineering has sought in the past and this is widely understood…tomorrow’s engineers need to come up with better, faster, leaner products and find ways to spin out technology quickly and unglamorously…This requires the softer skills which are sorely underestimated in most engineering degrees. These skills are fostered far more effectively in the humanities…What does this mean for today’s engineering graduates? The global jobs market is changing rapidly…”It is becoming increasingly apparent that in future design graduates will need to be both artist and scientist, or at least, be able to understand how they may cross the divide…””(more)