"The only career in which a high school graduate can expect to continue to work on [problems with a unique correct answer] is academic research in pure mathematics"
Unfortunately for this article, the premise that mathematics is the same thing as engineering is false.
If an engineering problem does not have a unique solution, its because of complications introduced by the real world. Any engineering problem which can be well-posed as a pure math problem, does of course have a unique solution; as the author concedes.