Of late, seasoned engineers around the world are alarmed with the increasing number of electronics engineers who cannot use a soldering iron properly. Is this a case of a cackle of old timers who are living in the past? Or is it symptomatic of the decline of the engineering class?
Do modern engineers really need to know how to paste wires to each other? The next engineering problem is designed using software and delivered by fabs located in various parts of the world. On this note, there has been a spate of fabs being built in low cost places like India and... New York. Interestingly one of players announced by India is Malaysia's very own Silterra.
According to testing solution providers Coverity, there is going to be an even bigger need for an already poor-sized pool for coders. Demand for IoT (Internet of Things) will drive up demand and price of software developers. These includes systems developers, app developers, device "drivers", communications, data aggregators, security and so on. Oracle believes it too, and continually promotes Java for IoT.
But no. It is not the death of engineering. In fact, engineers alongside scientists are using their skills to create funky things which require greater skill than connecting wires: spray-on circuits, gold nano-particles for brain implants, and quantum computers. So! Leave hot iron to the tinkerers. Its time to move on.
btw Wouldn't it be good if my backyard (Asia) could build the management, scientific and engineering capability that is sorely needed? This is ironic considering its manufacturing might. Plus! there doesn't seem to be a shortage of cash here. But that's another story.
btw Wouldn't it be good if my backyard (Asia) could build the management, scientific and engineering capability that is sorely needed? This is ironic considering its manufacturing might. Plus! there doesn't seem to be a shortage of cash here. But that's another story.
Coverty's IoT Infographic:
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