The Narrowness of Engineering

From College (Un) Bound: The Future of Higher Education and What it Means for Students by Jeffrey Selingo:

"The skills needed for success in the twenty-first century may sound like a throwback to the classic liberal-arts course of study of arithmetic, geometry, grammar, logic, and rhetoric.  Indeed, as the United States moves away from a broad educational approach into narrow, practical majors, many Asian countries are moving precisely in the opposite direction out of fear that they are producing nothing more than a nation of test takers.  As a reporter, I hear over and over again that students and colleges need to have more balanced degrees, with both broad knowledge and in-depth study in a particular area.  Employers say that is what they want, but their hiring practices might be working against that goal."