<p>The truth is there is just a small percentage of the population that is really good at math and likes it. Notice there is always a shortage of people for jobs that require math. People who don’t like math, i.e., almost everybody, should do something other than engineering.</p>
<p>There is also just a small percentage of the population that has the gene for spatial visualization, the instinct that lets an architect or an engineer look at a set of drawings, understand the 3D assembly of components, and recognize errors in the drawings. This kind of person can always tell you which direction is north and the direction to the door he came in, no matter how many turns he has taken to his present location. This person likes to take things apart to understand how they work then put them back together. If you don’t have a clue what I am talking about, then by that alone it is pretty certain you don’t have the 3D gene, so don’t worry about it and enjoy business school.</p>
<p>A happy engineer or architect likes math and has the 3D gene. Although folks without the 3D gene can thrive as electrical engineers and tend in that direction anyway.</p>
<p>Trying to boost the engineering population with a PR program seems kind of like, well, something a PR person who doesn’t get it would think of.</p>