{"id":4745,"date":"2014-11-22T12:19:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T11:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=4745"},"modified":"2014-11-22T12:19:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T11:19:26","slug":"engineers-should-embrace-their-artistic-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2014\/11\/22\/engineers-should-embrace-their-artistic-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineers should embrace their artistic side."},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/9d\/Question_mark_blue.png\" alt=\"?\" width=\"150\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top\">More warnings about a shortage of STEM graduates. Where are these messages coming from?  There is no shortage, many graduates in engineering for example are forced to work in jobs that are nothing to do with their degrees, or even worse they are in non-graduate jobs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<blockquote><p>Engineering needs to emphasise its creative side to encourage more young people to take it up as a career.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <em>Sir John O&#8217;Reilly<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is fine. The fields of science and engineering do require some creative thinking. There is an element are art to this.<\/p>\n<p>But I am worried about the continual message of a lack of STEM graduates where in reality many are unemployed. I really don&#8217;t understand the B.S. here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/education-30136921\" title=\"BBC News\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Embrace engineering&#8217;s creative side&#8217; to fix skills crisis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More warnings about a shortage of STEM graduates. Where are these messages coming from? There is no shortage, many graduates in engineering for example are forced to work in jobs that are nothing to do with their degrees, or even worse they are in non-graduate jobs. Engineering needs to emphasise its creative side to encourage &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2014\/11\/22\/engineers-should-embrace-their-artistic-side\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Engineers should embrace their artistic side.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}