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On the other end of the business size spectrum, small entrepreneurial technology startups are requiring their smaller employee base to not only develop the technology but also manufacture and market it. Robert Morgan has reported the results of a meeting of fifty leaders of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) that "Engineering employment in manufacturing has moved somewhat from large companies to medium and smaller ones, including many start-up businesses. These workforce changes have created a demand for engineers who can fuse technical, managerial, financial, and industrial skills." 5 The same attendees noted that future technologists "… need a breadth of knowledge to handle complex objectives and multidisciplinary functions, to understand non-engineering issues, and to perform systems engineering in a loosely bound environment".

The education and training of the workforce needed to assure global competitiveness of American industry in high technology areas, along with the proper role of various disciplines in that educational process, is currently being re-examined. Several academic areas in science and engineering have reported results from such studies that revealed several broad themes of educational need that span and cross the boundaries of science and engineering [1][2][3][4][5] . They included greater attention to and the development of team-building skills, personal or interactive skills, creative ability, and a business or entrepreneurial where-with-all.

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