Challenge: more engineers in US politics

My brother Edward Tenner some years ago pointed to the paucity of engineers in Congress compared even to physicians, let alone businessmen and (of course) lawyers. As he notes, the scarcity of engineers in modern Anglo-American politics (despite Herbert Hoover and Jimmy Carter) is in marked contrast to their prominence in politics in other cultures (obviously including the USSR and other Communist nations but not limited to them): "Globally, then, the unpolitical Anglo-American nerd is the exception. The argument that gained credence in 19th-century France and was echoed in other regimes is that a state must be guided by a scientific and technological elite. Two forces kept that notion from taking hold in the United States. The first was American suspicion of central government. The second was industry's appetite for engineers; at the turn of the 20th century, U.S. companies fearing manpower shortages resisted attempts to make elite postgraduate degrees the norm for engineers, as they were becoming for lawyers, doctors, and executives." https://www.technologyreview.com/2005/04/01/231337/engineers-and-political-power/

So is there any plausible POD for changing the situation whereby in the US "engineers...continue to design and implement everything but our laws"? The Technocracy movement, with its advocacy of an enhanced role for engineers, had a certain vogue in the 1930's but never became a really formidable political force http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement and since we are having a separate thread on it, https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=377639 I would prefer other possible POD's.
 
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If the US educated more engineers, to the point where there's a surplus of engineers, many of them would be interested in finding work elsewhere. Several of the older ones would find politics a desirable second career.

I don't believe the article's implication that engineers are less interested in civics than members of other fields. I think that the shortage of engineers is one major factor. Perhaps another factor is that members of the American political establishment are biased toward recruiting lawyers to run for office. They think "Who have I met who can be a good city councilor?" And the first person they think of is a lawyer.
 
If the US educated more engineers, to the point where there's a surplus of engineers, many of them would be interested in finding work elsewhere. Several of the older ones would find politics a desirable second career.

I don't believe the article's implication that engineers are less interested in civics than members of other fields. I think that the shortage of engineers is one major factor. Perhaps another factor is that members of the American political establishment are biased toward recruiting lawyers to run for office. They think "Who have I met who can be a good city councilor?" And the first person they think of is a lawyer.

Most lawyers dont like being lawyers, hence the motivation for a second career. I'm not sure that's true about engineers.
 
The only President that I can think of as an Engineer was Herbert Hoover who was a mining engineer and spend some time in western Australia.

Most seem to be lawyers or soldiers so people who know the law or know how to lead.
 
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