If one poses the appropriate question Does a society need students of science with an emphasis on practical application?it is simple to justify the nation’s love affair with the profession of engineering. Indeed, a nation that is developing itself would require that kind of human capital! But some where along the road, helped by the BPO, IT, and other unrelated booms, engineering ceased to be considered as the bedrock of development and became instead the minimal requirement for obtaining seemingly any job at all. That’s a bitter man’s perspective, and it is completely skewed on so many levels that we won’t even try to explain it without making this edition too long. The foundation for a country’s prosperity and security during an international, knowledge-driven economy can be its leadership in technology and innovation.