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

mapj1:


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.

 

I think I would endorse that 100%


Basically, undergraduate study should be focused on the fundamentals of engineering - further study should then concentrate on "application" of more technical deepening.


As an example, I did a craft apprenticeship, higher education and a degree in electrical engineering - which actually led to me then doing a second undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering  - from which I did masters in Architecture (specifically focusing on the Environmental Design of Buildings)


I used the early parts of my career to do two things:


1 - Grab what application training was going

2 - Experiencing various jobs to principally work out what I didn't like doing rather than what I did like doing


What was left after that was a role that I enjoyed, underpinned by first principles  - which always makes me wary of "straight out of the box, oven ready candidates" who claim their degree was specialist - they are often lacking in a whole basket of transferable skill sets and broad underpinning knowledge


Regards


OMS

 

mapj1:


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.

 

I think I would endorse that 100%


Basically, undergraduate study should be focused on the fundamentals of engineering - further study should then concentrate on "application" of more technical deepening.


As an example, I did a craft apprenticeship, higher education and a degree in electrical engineering - which actually led to me then doing a second undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering  - from which I did masters in Architecture (specifically focusing on the Environmental Design of Buildings)


I used the early parts of my career to do two things:


1 - Grab what application training was going

2 - Experiencing various jobs to principally work out what I didn't like doing rather than what I did like doing


What was left after that was a role that I enjoyed, underpinned by first principles  - which always makes me wary of "straight out of the box, oven ready candidates" who claim their degree was specialist - they are often lacking in a whole basket of transferable skill sets and broad underpinning knowledge


Regards


OMS