How do we get more young boys in to Computer and Electrical Engineering?

I train in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu(BJJ).  I am a member of a BJJ gym and I go to a lot of BJJ tournaments and events.  Because of this I get to meet young people, and after talking to some of them, I learned that most are not interested in Computer and Electrical Engineering. 

Why do we need more young boys to become interested in Computer and Electrical Engineering? At my current job, a few months back, my then manager was trying to hire for an open programming position and people where just not applying.

I receive emails/ phone calls all the time from local recruiters.  It seem like they are not many of us. I also get emails from amazon recruiters a lot. So, it seems like Companies are looking, but just not finding anyone.

I am currently working on a project solo that took a team of people at a different company 2 years to complete.  

This is why we need to get more young boys interested in Computer and Electrical Engineering. The more people we have the more work we can get done.

Also have you heard of a company called Infosys?  Infosys is a company out of India. I have worked with them a lot in my 6 years.  Infosys gets a lot of work, because we do not have a lot of  

Computer and Electrical Engineers in the US. 

 So any ideas?

For  people who do not know what Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is,

here is a video of a kid doing BJJ:

This kid is one of the best!! He is the one in the white Gi

Pacific System Solutions

I graduated in Computer and Electrical Engineering back in 2010. My 1^st job was at Pacific System Solutions. I was a contract Engineer and I design an antenna system that could transmit a video feed 150 meters away. I designed two Half-Wave Dipole antennas using the Friis equation. I oversaw testing of the antenna system and I produced a report on antenna design for Pacific systems solutions. The job ended up being a success and I was giving a really good reference that helped me land my next job. Almost even better, the head programmer at Pacific System Solutions did not think my designed was going to work. It felt so good when testing was done and it was working.

However, I do feel that I did not learn what I needed to know to design this antennas system from school. I feel that school teaches a lot of theory, but hardly any application. The funny thing is that in the working world you use application and not overly complex theory. The math to design the antenna system was very easy and also something I did not learn in college.

I really feel I could have designed that same antenna system without even going to college and it still would have worked.

Universities should teach more applications to student so they can be ready for the working world.  In my book, I go over some of the contract jobs I had after I graduated.  So my book will show real life engineering work projects.

Does anyone have a similar experience?

Below is a video of the Hook cam, I designed the two antennas it uses:

I go in more detail in my book.

Project from my book

Digital signal processing Application: high school - college level projects

This book will go through different projects that will teach the reader how to write software: to improve their singing, synthesize different guitar sounds, change the human brainwave, break glass, help people to relax and learn about many different sound engineering and DSP tools : DFT, FFT, High pass filter, low pass filter, fundamental frequency, Karplus-strong algorithm. In this book they will learn about: Isochronic tones, Binaural beats, and Monaural beats and how to code them. Then they will be able to come up with their own beats. They will learn about sound waves and a lot more. There are very few books / websites that show people how to code DSP tools. There are a lot that show the theory but not many that show the application, so I think this Book would be very useful for high school students, college students, and inter level employees.

Get the book here