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Engineering enrollments are up

May 12, 2009

A nice article in the Christian Science Monitor reports that engineering enrollments are up 30% at some colleges and 4.5% across the board for undergraduates. Masters degree enrollments are up 7%. Perhaps people are seeing that engineering work is a way to earn your money, as opposed to looting it like our finance types seem to do.

You are welcome to try and comment but the system is broken and our IT department is “working on it”. Blog wizard Brian Dipert says about 1 in 20 comments are going through. I tried to comment to my last post with Explorer 7, Firefox 3 and Opera 9.60 and could not get a comment to post. This is a big deal so it should get fixed soon.

Posted by Paul Rako on May 12, 2009 | Comments (2)

June 29, 2009
In response to: Engineering enrollments are up
jackie cox commented:

Its interesting to see an increase in structural analysis, In the world economy be aware that mechanical engineers are available for around 100$ per month from India, programmers the same slave price, and both can be managed remotely, Plus the guys with big cash in their pocket are going there, like Gates/Buffet, North Americans simply require too much money for these guys to consider doing the routine engineering and coding. Its unfortunate our government doesn't take these things into account at the import taxation level, It will be sad to see all those unemployeed engineers, unless they wanna go to india and similar places around the world, Children beware the sales pitches of the academic ventures whose main responsibility is to their owners, is to sell education. Abandon these guys, educate yourselves, education occurs from interest, Why would you spend an entire semester to listen to some windbag, forcing his belief systems on you, when you can read the summary at the end of the obsolete textbook, and get all the info you're really looking for, unless yer one of the royalty whose daddy pays yer way and you study real hard to pass the test at the end of the semester, which is promptly forgotten---You're on your own now, its a racist classist system that if you don't belong to you can't join


May 13, 2009
In response to: Engineering enrollments are up
Moe Rubenzahl commented:

That is great news and whatever your politics, more engineers is a good thing for the world. As long as we don''t wind up with so many that they are asked to write user manuals. Like the one I had to read last night. Ow. And with regard to the comments feature -- it has always been "broken." It STILL deletes line breaks and I always have to enter the three letters twice ("You typed NFK which was wrong!") (and still is set so a spambot could read the characters from the page code, duh).

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