<p>An engineering education teaches you how to be critical and analytical, to think scientifically, and to apply these skills to real-life situations. I’d hire someone with an engineering degree as an engineer, a manager, a laboratory worker, a production supervisor, a technician…just about every job I’ve ever hired for. My son’s best math teacher in high school was a mechanical engineer. Is it too popular? No way. We may not need more engineers per se, but we sure as heck need more people who think like engineers. To paraphrase Mike Rowe, engineers make civilized life possible for the rest of us.</p>