Quick globalization makes prediction of future human activity on production and economy more difficult. This is mainly because of increase in factors affecting relationship among different people with different way of life, culture, tradition and so on. To survive in such complicated world each engineer is desired to provide the knowledge of liberal arts as well as highly specialized knowledge. A synergy power generated by collaborative work of science-and liberal arts-minded way of thinking is a promising tool to unveil difficult world. This paper first describes degradation of liberal arts education during past two decades. Then, several movements for stopping that degradation are introduced in conjunction with the author′s overseas experiences. Finally, a necessity of bringing up well competitive desirable engineer through collaborative work by university and company is proposed.
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