I’ve blogged about the maintenance crisis once or twice: Who’s gonna replace retiring maintenance pros?

Now I hear there’s an engineering crisis as well: Kids don’t want to be engineers. As soon as next year, we’ll be short 70,000 (engineers, not kids).

A survey from the American Society for Quality (ASC) paints this picture of kids and engineering:

• About half don’t know what it is.
• 1 in 3 thinks it’s boring.
• 1 in 5 thinks he’s not good enough in math and science—though these are the two best-liked school subjects.
• 1 in 5 parents steers a kid toward engineering, including 1 girl out of 10.

An ASC rep says this casts a shadow over the future of innovation, quality and that word I’m hearing more and more: infrastructure.

Man, this blogging is opening my eyes …

By Keith

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