Nonsense. I teach engineering. Enrollments are cyclical; they rise and fall. But salaries are up, and none of my students have had any trouble getting an engineering job.
Some students may be influenced by all-our-jobs-are-going-overseas doom and gloom that is being spread on the Internet by posts such as yours. Others are scared away from engineering because they think it too difficult. And some may consider engineering insufficiently glamorous. (Plenty of TV shows feature lawyers; how many show engineers?)
One more thing. Politicians should have no say about where companies hire their engineers. Politicians do not have a good track record when it comes to managing the economy. We would all be better off if governments were limited to their constitutionally specified functions.
This bears repeating. "Politicians do not have a good track record when it comes to managing the economy. We would all be better off if governments were limited to their constitutionally specified functions."
Absolutely. Trade is done between individuals and companies, not countries. Governments can set up the legal processes and procedures and they can either facilitate or interfere, but they don't trade.