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Engineering education can deliver training that is allinclusive and systematic in the design, development, maintenance and management of intricate technical systems. Without question, such education provides the necessary technical depth to graduates. However, many technical systems are best understood from the perspective of human perceptions and also that of a wider socio-economic context. It has been well documented that the success of technical projects is quite often almost entirely dependent on these factors. It is a curious paradox that the software industry has helped provide the means by which others have been able to automate, reengineer and economy-scale their businesses, that is, reduce the human variable, and yet remains itself very people sensitive and intensive. For example: