Thoughts on the future of EE in specific, and engineering in general

[aibarr]

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But wouldn’t designing things just get plain repetitive after a while?

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<p>Yes! Welcome to being a young engineer.</p>

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How often do you get a new problem at your work?

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<p>All the time. Pile 'em on to the old problems that I still get to deal with, but I’m learning something new every day.</p>

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And if any old engineer can design something then wouldn’t that adversely affect the demand for engineers?

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<p>Not really, because any old engineer can’t design a lot of these things. There’s a lot more specialties than just your basic civil/chem/mech/elec/whatever divisions. Then also, there are a whole lot of “somethings” left to design. We’re not in danger of running out of work.</p>

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In EE, since the size of microchips keeps getting scaled smaller and smaller, it generates a lot of work for engineers. Once this innovation levels out, then demand for these engineers would get much lower.

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<p>And twenty years ago, there was NO WAY anybody would ever need more than a few megabytes of disk space… Innovation isn’t going to level out any time soon.</p>