Engineering Education as a Preparation for Any Life Work

In our present day engineering civilization, is there a logical basis for the thesis that an engineering education is a good preparation for any life work? President Johnson says there is, and in this article gives strong supporting reasons for his contention. He concludes that a broad basic engineering education ``which opens the mind and shows it how nature itself does its work, and teaches it to apply that knowledge through original thinking to the specific problems of one´s life work, is a preparation for that life work which has, and in the very nature of things can have, no equal.´´