SINGAPORE - Today’s graduates are not doomed if they study engineering, despite a poor job market. Mr Dyson is stubbornly optimistic that engineering, design and science students will hold up well, saying that artificial intelligence (AI) can never replace the human brain for creativity. In late 2024, Dyson cut an undisclosed number of jobs in Singapore following a global restructuring move that involved about 1,000 job cuts in Britain. The proportion of people in Singapore taking engineering and science at university is also higher than in the UK, he noted. “My chief engineer studied engineering and then studied design, and then came to me to practise as a designer engineer.
