Missing Basics

The amount of material we will cover in math and science greatly out weighs the amount of stuff we will be exposed to in other areas.  Yet as engineering progresses as a idea we have to become able to do more than just crunch numbers, figure out the hardware/software/mech/ everything we are used to doing.  People now want us to come up with ideas that we think would work and to present them to large corporations.  Because of this we have to know what kinds of questions to ask, how to ask them, and how to speak to large groups, which are some of the missing basics.  If we know how to do these things we become better than the people who are also trying to get the same jobs as we have more skills and can better assist the company in what they are trying to do as we can come up with ideas and present them and not just figure out how to make them work.  The missing basics will help us better survive in the real world as it prepares us for jobs and not just what we have to do in them.