How about susidized tuition for American engineering students?
As outsourcing has shown, a high tech knowledge base is easy to lose and takes years to rebuild.
Half the problem is American students dont want to be engineers "its to hard and the payoff is too low"
Won't work. The top students -- the ones who excel at whatever they try, however few they are -- are not interested in pursuing such a demanding discipline of engineering, however it is subsidized, for the privilige of watching their careers being offshored and left with the predicament of not being able to make a living at what they've labored so hard to become skilled in.
The top students are thundering into law school because it is the last growth industry America has to offer -- suing the wealth right out of the country.