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RALEIGH -- Engineering and science: They"re not only jobsthey"re the shelter of humanity.

Thats the confidant equation avowed by leaders in business, governing body and academia Friday at the Summit on the National Academy of Engineering at the Raleigh Convention Center.

"This is not a hyperbole: The destiny of the republic and the universe rests on the capability to do math, science, engineering and record to compromise the problems," pronounced U.S. Sen. Ted Kaufman, a Democrat from Delaware. "Engineers have regularly been the worlds complaint solvers."

Kaufman was one of multiform speakers to set upon this tone, a usual thesis at gatherings of engineers, scientists and mathematicians.

"We"re in an mercantile war," Kaufman said. "We"re in a fight for you, for the young kids and for the grandchildren."

Just a month ago, speakers at an additional forum additionally hold at the gathering core derided such showy statements as self-indulgent misconceptions ginned up to secure some-more supervision appropriation for record research. At the Emerging Issues Forum, speakers pronounced what this republic needs is some-more preparation in the humanities and humanities.

But this time it was the engineers" spin to reassert their primacy. The limit was sponsored by the engineering departments at Duke University and N.C. State University.

Kaufman and Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers urged those in the assembly to take each event to foster systematic and engineering fields.

They warned that the predestine of the republic depends on it.

"If we dont move now, we establish the young kids to a dwindling customary of living," Chambers said. "The companies will fix up to the places with the most appropriate tutorial systems in the world."

No discuss here of this segment being awash in impoverished engineers who used to work at Sony Ericsson, IBM, Lenovo and Nortel Networkstottering temples to quantitative knowledge.

San Jose, Calif.-based Cisco, with 67,000 employees worldwide, is aggressively employing in the building universe as well as in the U.S. The tellurian companys second-biggest site is in Bangalore, India. Its third-biggest is in Research Triangle Park, where Cisco employs 4,300 full-timers and contractors.

"In Silicon Valley, when you go out to a restaurant, you get a special list if you"re an operative since the the cool margin to be in," Chambers said.

"Its a total opposite turn of conversation," he said. "As a nation, we need to put engineers behind on the pedestal where they belong."