Thanks for Prof. Larson's excellent editorial that calls on more research on education. According to Tryggvason and Apelian (2006), the current way of educating the majority of engineers in the US has changed very little since 1960s, there is a troubling lack of a good connection with the fast-changing reality of the global environment. It is indeed necessary to transform the way we educate to nurture the 21st century entrepreneurial engineer in the US. Irving Wladawsky-Berger wrote a related blog: http://blog.irvingwb.com/blog/2009/11/richard-larson-httpesdmitedufaculty_pageslarsonlarsonhtm-is-professor-of-engineering-systems-and-civil-and-environ.html