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"In their drive for the cheapest labor, (which means foreign) the High Tech industry has slit the throat of the domestic pipeline. Good students suddenly are attracted to banking, law (shudder), business, engineering or anything except computer science. Hello Mr. Gates...Econ 101..."

Yeah. There was already enough trouble getting kids to tackle the tough engineering courses.

I have been a professional engineer (electronics)all my career.

I cannot recommend engineering as a professional pursuit to my kids. You're job WILL go to an H-1B or be outsourced.

It's just not worth the work to get an engineering degree.

Study something that can't be outsourced

I have been a professional engineer (electronics)all my career.

We've seen substantial changes since I've been in the field' ... seriously, you didn't expect that vacuum-tubed receivers and TV sets (prolific in the early sixties!) would continue to be manufactured by the likes of Zenith, Curtis-Mathes and Setchel Carlson into the 21st century?

No ... so, too, with today's technology and the tools that create/are used to design, engineer and simulate today's products - we've even seen the revolution in such 'modern' technological areas (and commodities) as 'cell phones'; no longer are they simple full-duplex FM transceivers but CDMA and TDMA protocol devices capable of both 'sight and sound' on transmission as well as reception ... even the cellular 'system' of 10 years ago is now considered 'archaic' ...