Engineering

My Dad's an engineer. I was never good enough with the math, and too lazy to really work at it. Dearra is the same way, Cary and Naomi are stronger at it. Maybe one of them will have an interest. And yes, it's a concern. The US has been behind other countries in math and science for a while now.

What about all those "domestic engineers" aka "mom"? Now I'm wondering how many people searched "engineer". I didn't. Honest.

hi pike yes in all the discussions from Indians I noticed so many were all engineers,here in the states its one humongous price for young people to go through engineering college so thats why a lot drop out and go into less expensive trades. My son was once into engineering and could not afford the cost of four years at the U. so turned to computer programming. but if we want to keep up as a country we need to get more young people into engineering. girls and boys both.

Hello p1kef Im studying Industrial engineering, so count one more frome the west world. In my country the most popular major is business administration(and i must say most of the people who doesnt know what to study, study ba), though i think there still a good number of people studying engineering. I think this happen because engineering isnt an easy major, it requires more hard work than others that we could say are easier.

hi I am a electronics engineer from india. whatever you mentioned is correct.i know manufacturing is back bone of any country's economic development.but every field adds to complete prosperity of any country. western countries too have a huge requirement of engineers, but mostly is fulfilled by hiring engineers from east. one thing is sure neither engineers nor pop idols will do it alone.there has to be complete mix up all fields. everything has it's own importance.

I just graduated with a degree in Renewable Energy Engineering, a very new field. I had an internship during my last year of school with my professor, who owns a company that does a lot of work with biomass to energy. I don't have children, so I can't answer that one!

There are many of them in the health industry as well, doctors, I mean. I had an Indian pen friend from when I was 13. He was a few years older and left school to attend university to become an engineer. We lost touch when I left Australia to go and live in Singapore. I would so like to catch up with him. This was over 40 years ago...can you imagine how many engineers and doctors India has produced since then?? It surprises me (and I don't understand) how a country so rich in brain talent can have such a high level of poverty and the homelessness, ill health and lack of education that goes along with poverty. My nephew is an engineer and works for Boral. I'm not sure what division he works in.

Well, its true India produces a lot of Engineers. Around 500-600k Engineers graduate every year, but only 5-6k of these actually know something. Pick up ten random electronics engineers from random engineering colleges, and ask them to solder a 5k capacitor on a stripboard. Place the capacitor along with certain other components. Add in a cocktail of other components, like resistors, diodes, small relays. the results will be amazing. no more than 7 of them will correctly identify them, which is bad cuz Electronics Engineers grow up reading about these things. no more two of them will correctly solder them. Again its a prerequisite skill for all engineers. So what I am sain is that no more than 10% of India's Engineers learn anything useful. anything they can use to make stuff. So don't worry, your superiority is safe.

I don't know about the UK but the US has become a nation of consumers. We drove out manufacturing with sky-high taxes on businesses and in many states you have to be a union member to get a good job. We no longer make anything so there's no source of revenue except taxing the population. We all know what happened to the dinosaurs!

Many many many of my friends are engineers here in the States. I just feel like maybe they don't spend much time on mylot. :-) I know many who want to be engineers as well. I wouldn't get too worried yet. I have actually heard engineering is now one of the most popular things to study in Uni in the States these days.

Well, I guess because bulk of the erging industries in asia is within the scope of manufacturing. Mostly, the western forces delegate some of their manpower into the east and do manufacturing operations in the east also. I tried to do the search of discussions with the word "engineer". My results got discussions started around 3 years ago which is really ages. Most recent is 3 months old. Good to know that there are engineer in here too. I myself is an engineer and am very proud of my profession. Maybe the engineers in the other side of the world are too busy calculating stuff or are just earning solidly enough that they don't bother to to participate in myLot site.