americans know these engineering jobs have no future, their parents who are engineers steer their college bound children away from those fields, because they know what is happening to them. I know 100s of people I work with doing exactly this. that's why those programs have to use foreign students to fill the seats.
no american parent is going to spend $100K to educate their kid, to get a job working 60-80 hours per week, competing with offshore labor. why bother, when real estate brokers and stock traders and lawyers are financially much better fields.