Engineering Employment U.S.
Materials Engineers 16K 57K 21K 69K
Petroleum engineers 10K 70K 15K 92K
Chemical Engineers 41K 61K 30K 80K
Nuclear Engineers 10K 68K 17K 89K
Cival Engineers 171K 54K 218K 67K
Agricultural Engineers 3K 54K 3K 61K
Industrial Engineers 113K 54K 174K 67K
Mechanical Engineers 216K 55K 217K 69K
Marine Enginners 4K 53K 5K 74K
Computer Engineers 300K 60K 820K 79K
I feel sorry for any kid that you make that recommendation to. You really don't know what you are talking about.
Logic and facts don't matter when protectionism is involved. The sky is always falling with these guys.
none of my engineer collegaues at work are sending their own children into the field. none. you can find dozens of articles on what is happening to enrollment, its no secret. and if you pulled foreign nationals out of the US programs, the numbers would be much worse.
just type the phrase "declining engineering enrollment" into google and read what comes up, and be sure to select the current articles from 2003/4/5, not the old stuff.
just heard of another project today at work sent to India in fact.
its funny that IBM, one of the leaders in offshoring, would run a lecture like this:
https://www-927.ibm.com/ibm/cas/archives/2004/workshops/workshop_12.shtml
with some quotes:
"Enrollment in computer science (and in computer engineering) is down 50% over the past three years across North America." (2001-2004)
"A number of prominent newspapers (including the LA Times) have run recent stories about the 23% plunge in CS enrollments from 2002 to 2003."
the sad part is that US industry, who caused this problem, uses this data to argue for MORE OFFSHORING and MORE H1B visas - which makes the problem worse and worse. Or they blame the K-12 public school system, the same system that cranked out the engineers who created the telecommunications and internet revolution in the 1990s, all of a sudden collapsed in 2001-2005? Its laughable.
my observations are not anecdotal, unless you believe I wrote the articles and presentation given above.