Unfortunately, those ARE the facts. Once upon a time American engineers WERE the best, BUT, today's American engineering students for the most part are so ill prepared in high school they simply can't cut it. In addition, most don't have the necessary work ethic to buckle down and study hard enough to overcome that deficit. My wife used to teach Petroleum Engineering at a major university, and she said that the foreign students were much better prepared than the Americans.
This is such an outrageous statement. You can not possibly paint the entire nation of American engineers with one brush. It is naive of you to think that ALL American engineers and college students are incompetent and unable to cut it. JUST AMERICAN BASHING AT It's BEST.