Why Is Inspiring Children to Become Engineers and Scientists Important?
The world has now realized that scientists and engineers will solve the most challenging global problems. As a sign of the times, U.S. President Barack Obama appeared on The Tonight Show and encouraged students to study engineering and science rather than finance. Problems such as water shortages, the conversion of the economy from reliance on fossil fuels to alternative fuels, and a health system based on genomics and predictive maintenance rather than one based on preventive maintenance will be solved by the supreme innovators of our times: engineers and scientists. Today, 25 percent of the world’s population is under the age of 15. Often, in many places in the world, the best way for young people to improve their position in life is to become an engineer or scientist. Thirty percent of graduates in China leave higher learning institutions with an engineering or technical degree while only five percent of U.S. graduates do. In fact, U.S. universities produce more psychologists each y
