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There won’t be many digital business trends in the future if the world’s engineering and technology professionals pull an Atlas Shrugged on us. That’s IF we don’t run out of them first!

IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional society, turns 125 today, while announcing the first Global Engineering the Future Day.

Designed to raise public awareness of the opportunities in the technology industry, Engineering the Future Day recognizes the contributions and impact that IEEE and its members have made for the benefit of humanity.

The IEEE saw the need to increase awareness of technological advancement and its impact due to global decrease of students entering the fields of engineering, computing and technology. For example, the number of engineering specialties in Chinese universities has decreased by more than half from 1997 to 2006, according to the Chinese Ministry of Education.

In the U.S., although university enrollments are at an all-time high, the number of students in science, technology, engineering and math programs has remained stagnant for the past 25 years.

This lack of growth can lead to America facing a shortage of trained professionals in fields that fuel tomorrow’s innovations in healthcare, alternative energy and communications. And that would spell doom for digital business trends blogs!

Take a visit to IEEE 125, and see what technologies are emerging, and what’s being done to encourage tomorrow’s engineers.