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Obama: 'We Don't Have Enough Engineers'

Posted by Soulskill on from the can-we-invade-world-of-warcraft dept.

dcblogs writes "President Obama wants to boost engineering graduation rates by 10,000 a year. In 2009, the US produced 126,194 engineering graduates for bachelor's and master's degrees and for Ph.D.s. The US had just over 1.9 million engineers in 2010. The unemployment rate in 2010 for all engineers was 4.5%. 'We've made incredible progress on education, helping students to finance their college educations, but we still don't have enough engineers,' said Obama. He's counting on the private sector to help expand the number of graduates."

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  1. Where are these Engineers going to work? Obama? by Nexusone1984 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    We don't have jobs for the Engineers we already have, many myself included can not find a job in our fields.

    Why go to school to be come an Engineer when you will not have a job waiting for you?

    We need to create Job's for the Engineers, stop importing Engineer for jobs or having them move over seas.

    Fix out trade agreements so we are not competing against slave labor.....
    Fix the hole in our borders....

  2. Re:Obama spent his entire life in academia... by GlobalEcho · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Obama spent his entire life in academia...and really doesn't have a clue what anybody actually needs.

    As opposed to whom? Our presidents since Carter have included nobody with "real" work experience. We've had a famous actor, silver-spoon CEO types, a military guy, and career politicians (along with combinations of the above).