Obama pushes jobs plan in North Carolina [10,000 new American engineers every year]

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | June 13, 2011 | Jim Kuhnenn

[poobear]

“Here in the Oil Patch, new petroleum engineering graduates are getting paid $90k per year.”

That’s what we were thinking.

[RFEngineer]

“This sucks. My child is a math/engineering/science major. Maybe she can be a pharmacist instead.”

If you child is a math/engineering/science major, your child has a more rigorous education than a large portion of her peers.

As long as your daughter is willing to roll with the punches, she’ll be able to keep herself gainfully employed.

Don’t sweat the pessimism on the thread. What the pessimists seem to be saying is that somehow shunning rigor and hard work will pay off. I disagree. I would much rather have a child facing an uncertain world with an engineering education than without one.

I too have a daughter (at least planning in the fall in my case) to get an engineering education.

The fact that so few kids take the “hard classes” is all the more reason for yours to do so.

[DH]

I doubt that engineering majors are/were required to also be an English major.

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Apparently you did not notice my post was sarcastic...not fact. I would recommend a remedial reading comprehension course for you.

[poobear]

Big thanks! Our daughter is a hard worker. She made 100’s on her finals last week. I just want her to do well at what she likes which is Math, Science and Chemistry.

There are very few students these days with this kind of passion for “hard” courses. Most high school seniors can’t pass Algebra I. Sad isn’t it?

Thanks again for the encouragement.

[noinfringers2]

No I didn’t catch the sarcasm for the statement and no I don’t think I need remedial comprehension. Neither do I need to be told how to be considerate with my words before responding to a forum comment. I learned such from reading and writing in a parochial grade school.

[Clock King]

You both get it! Barry, like most on the Left, thinks that people are interchangeable units that can be trained to do anything the elite need at the moment. A person must WANT to learn higher level math and physics. Even then, you can’t force a mind to be creative and come up with “neat, new” products. Leftists think scientists and engineers just “discover” new ideas and products, without logically solving problems — as if an Ipod was discovered under a clam shell on a beach.

What the “council” really wants is more “minority” engineers (read, Black and Hispanic). And on that issue they are correct that K-12 completely fails minority students in preparing them to learn or think logically. But that won’t be fixed by their proposals.