The modern-day engineer must be equipped to solve multifaceted technical challenges that require the efforts of interdisciplinary teams whilst managing social, environmental, and cultural issues as well. The skills required by the engineer have been categorized into technical skills, computer skills and soft skills. The increase in the demand for and deployment of these technologies in the engineering world will threaten many routine-based jobs and open the door for several others that are more dynamic and require original human intelligence and ingenuity. This paper therefore, using a strategic frame work of analysis unfolds the utility of impacting practical engineering skills in the Nigerian system by recommending that the challenging trend in the use of technologies in the engineering world will not necessarily lead to unemployment of engineering professionals if attempts are constantly being made to upgrade the acquisition of engineering skills. As a matter of fact, the conception of this paper is that the challenge is expected to provide more openings for engineers with an entrepreneurial outlook to adequately take advantage of the opportunities for innovations through the use of new technologies.