What are the most promising S.T.E.M. careers of the future?

Are these suggestions for courses and career choices at Masters degree level - i.e. something you do to specialise after you have done a main degree in a core subject (Engineering, Maths or A Science ) already ?

I share Andy's concern that these are not what I consider Science (Physics/Chemistry/Biology), Engineering (maybe specialising, for example in electronics mechanics, or software) or mathematics (where folk end up in all sorts of places, doing things as diverse as robot vision and machine learning or modelling of novel low error communiction links and faiure modes in complex systems).

If not else where on the website, I'd suggest it is missing a bit, which is the pre-requisites.

As an illustration, you will not be a robot designer without engineering design skills, and they will involve some fairly solid maths.

My advice to a youngster for job security would actually be not to specialise until the last minute just before (or maybe after) going job hunting, as there is a serious risk of being something like the expert in canals when steam engines came along, and with a skill set soon defunct.

More useful it is to have a rock solid grip of the fundamental principles so that when change comes you can pick up the magazine articles and text books and keep yourself up to date, be it with wind turbines rockets or fun fair rides.

I do not know about the US (frankly their qualifications are a mystery) but in the UK I'd rather have someone who looks like they are bright and can be trained and kept up to date as required, with less knowledge of the  current task, than someone who can only do one thing right now without the core understanding of why and how..

I type as one with a degree in Physics and a PhD in  Electrical and Electronic Engineering, who has yet to be short of interesting work, but we also employ plenty of engineers and mathematics graduates !


I imagine others will differ.

regards Mike.

Are these suggestions for courses and career choices at Masters degree level - i.e. something you do to specialise after you have done a main degree in a core subject (Engineering, Maths or A Science ) already ?

I share Andy's concern that these are not what I consider Science (Physics/Chemistry/Biology), Engineering (maybe specialising, for example in electronics mechanics, or software) or mathematics (where folk end up in all sorts of places, doing things as diverse as robot vision and machine learning or modelling of novel low error communiction links and faiure modes in complex systems).

If not else where on the website, I'd suggest it is missing a bit, which is the pre-requisites.

As an illustration, you will not be a robot designer without engineering design skills, and they will involve some fairly solid maths.

My advice to a youngster for job security would actually be not to specialise until the last minute just before (or maybe after) going job hunting, as there is a serious risk of being something like the expert in canals when steam engines came along, and with a skill set soon defunct.

More useful it is to have a rock solid grip of the fundamental principles so that when change comes you can pick up the magazine articles and text books and keep yourself up to date, be it with wind turbines rockets or fun fair rides.

I do not know about the US (frankly their qualifications are a mystery) but in the UK I'd rather have someone who looks like they are bright and can be trained and kept up to date as required, with less knowledge of the  current task, than someone who can only do one thing right now without the core understanding of why and how..

I type as one with a degree in Physics and a PhD in  Electrical and Electronic Engineering, who has yet to be short of interesting work, but we also employ plenty of engineers and mathematics graduates !


I imagine others will differ.

regards Mike.