Why is engineering one of the most useful majors that a young person could choose today.?

Question

For a career in the future.

Answer 1

Truthfully the most prominent career someone can choose is in medical or medical research, however engineering is huge and used in everyday life, there is a nearly endless supply of jobs for engineers since so many new building, technology, and biomedical technology is being developed  

Answer 2

There will always be a need to design, build, fix and research things

And regardless of what country you go to and what the economy is like you have a good chance at finding a job

Answer 3

Engineering is the science of work, an engineer can study just about everything in the course of a career, the output is hopefully useful, but the work is fun, everyday different.

As an earlier respondent said, medicine is more useful, for the moment, that is, it is also boring, everyday the same, people with the same complaints, needing the same treatments.  Eventually, automated diagnosis, will take the tedium out of it, physicians will then have interesting jobs dealing with problems not yet resolved by applied technology, or providing a human face to emotive diagnoses.

If you are choosing a career, engineering is the one to go for, it should be the career of choice for anyone with an iota of curiousity and ability, whatever your headmaster or parents tell you.

Answer 4

Why is it useful? I guess that depends on whom it's useful for. For society, it's useful because engineering advances the technology used in most every profession, builds and improves our infrastructure, develops new methods and devices to improve our health, and pioneers us into new sources of energy. Engineers have their fingerprints on every single thing that is important to our society.

Why would it be useful for you? If you have a passion for math, science, and writing, it could be a great source of satisfaction for you to know that you participate in one of the most prestigious and needed professions in the world. In addition, most graduating engineers are near the top of all graduating majors in terms of salary, and the job security in most fields of engineering is comforting.