U.S. Engineers Undercounted

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday December 13, 2005 @08:04AM from the commonly-held-incorrect-fact dept.

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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What about foreign students? by Neoprofin · 2005-12-13 08:12 · Score: 0, Redundant

The study says that almost 300,000 graduate from U.S. Universities but it doesn't say how many of them are U.S. citizens with plans on staying in the U.S. and how many of them are just in on student visas. Although I don't think this makes up the entire gap between the two sets of findings it may explain at least some of the difference.

Furthermore, the problem, as stated by a sibling post, is not that these engineers exist in great numbers, it's that they are availible at lower prices than the typical American engineer.