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Alarm bells here. First off, an aptitude for math and science means nothing about whether he’d want to work in engineering. He really ought to talk to a couple of engineers (hopefully you and your friends know some) to get an idea of what the day-to-day life of an engineer is like, what the career path entails, etc. Its nothing like the classroom training to enter the field, which emphasizes the theory needed; on the job it is application which is significantly different even though it is grounded in the theory.</p>