U.S. Engineers Undercounted

mcho writes "Red Herring reports that 'The United States graduates far more engineers annually than typically reported in the press, a study said Monday, while the number of engineering graduates in India and China, long considered threats to the U.S.' status as a technological superpower, may be overstated ... the data implies that per every 1 million citizens, the United States is producing more technology specialists than China and India.' Are U.S. Engineers undercounted?" We've reported on the trend of U.S. students leaving the field previously.

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Re:I hope it's wrong

[HermanAB]

The engineering glut only affects Electronic Engineers, amongst which the jobless rate is about 20%. So, provided that your son is doing Chem Eng, Mechanical or Petroleum, he should be fine. If he is doing EE, then he should switch.

Yeah, US engineers "have an edge" over Chinese

[Master of Transhuman]

because they get "leadership dinners".

Translation: They make friends with Bush cronies so they can get hired at Halliburton and rake in taxpayer money.

Meanwhile, the Chinese work for one fourth the wages - and they work seven days a week - no time out for football and local bars.

Sorry - the US is out of business and has been so for the last twenty years (disregarding the IT industry - which unfortunately can't make anything work - just spent the entire day trying to get two HP/UX boxes running the same SSH servers and clients to talk to each other - still isn't working...POS HP crap...now I have to become a fucking "Master of SSH" - AGAIN - in order to get something done...)

Send me an email when you geek morons actually manage to make something work in IT.

Oh, wait, my SBC email account tonight says "Maildrop busy"...

Fucking morons. Buy another fucking server, you dolts!