Engineers are going be key to creating the instruments that discover new drugs and vaccines, and then key again to mass producing those drugs and vaccines.
While engineers use existing science to build things, the “circle closed” long ago and now engineers create the new instruments that are crucial to creating new science, and so on and so on.
“Bean counter” managers have greatly hampered the engineers who work for the “Big 3” USA automakers.
The managers at foreign carmakers have more intelligently used engineering principles. One example is the embrace of USA citizen Edward Deming’s ideas in Japan.
