The National Association of Manufacturers has released it's February 2006 study showing some disturbing trends in US research and development, technological innovation and manufacturing:

* the US now has a trade deficit in technology
* the US share of global manufacturing trade has decreased by almost 25 percent since the 1990s
* manufacturing output is lagging
* manufacturing capacity grows at less than one percent per year, compared with 5 percent a decade ago
* there are more engineering doctorate degrees awarded to foreigners in America on visas than to United States citizens
* between 1996-2003, the number of doctoral degrees in engineering awarded to US citizens fell by 35 percent

http://www.nam.org/s_nam/sec.asp?CID=202515&DID=236301

Very very unsettling.

I talked with a Bangladeshi software engineer working in Austin, Texas - home to Dell and other tech companies - and he relayed his experiences going to class in American university engineering and science programs.

The classes are made up of 90 percent foreigners on work/study visas. There are fewer and fewer Americans graduating with these degrees anymore. There is no way the US can keep a lead in technology without enough citizens with engineering educations.

There is little point in studying engineering when the entire industrial base is being moved offshore.

There is no demand here, except in defense related subcontracting. Most of that cannot be outsourced, by law, but laws can be changed when there is money to be made.

There is little point in studying engineering when the entire industrial base is being moved offshore.

There is no demand here, except in defense related subcontracting. Most of that cannot be outsourced, by law, but laws can be changed when there is money to be made.

What do you expect with a labor force hostile to industry and capital?

There is little point in studying engineering when the entire industrial base is being moved offshore.

That's true. It's a cycle of students going into college and trying to decide what to study and there being no point in studying certain fields because they're in decline. That in turn means there's no work force, which means decline.

I've done my part. Got your high tech skill set right here.

The National Association of Manufacturers has released it's February 2006 study showing some disturbing trends in US research and development, technological innovation and manufacturing:

* the US now has a trade deficit in technology
* the US share of global manufacturing trade has decreased by almost 25 percent since the 1990s
* manufacturing output is lagging
* manufacturing capacity grows at less than one percent per year, compared with 5 percent a decade ago
* there are more engineering doctorate degrees awarded to foreigners in America on visas than to United States citizens
* between 1996-2003, the number of doctoral degrees in engineering awarded to US citizens fell by 35 percent

http://www.nam.org/s_nam/sec.asp?CID=202515&DID=236301

Very very unsettling.

I talked with a Bangladeshi software engineer working in Austin, Texas - home to Dell and other tech companies - and he relayed his experiences going to class in American university engineering and science programs.

The classes are made up of 90 percent foreigners on work/study visas. There are fewer and fewer Americans graduating with these degrees anymore. There is no way the US can keep a lead in technology without enough citizens with engineering educations.


Not just engeneering ,also medical and bussiness major .

Damn, and somebody just told me in another thread that I made this kind of stuff up..