Engineering education as a preparation for any life work

In our present day engineering civilization, is there a logical basis for the thesis that an engineering education is a good preparation for any life work? President Johnson says there is, and in this article gives strong supporting reasons for his contention. He concludes that a broad basic engineering education “which opens the mind and shows it how nature itself does its work, and teaches it to apply that knowledge through original thinking to the specific problems of one's life work, is a preparation for that life work which has, and in the very nature of things can have, no equal.”