Crackdown on Science!

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by MrVisible

Blaming people for not being engineers seems kind of strange to me. The reality of the situation is that foreign-educated engineers come with lower pricetags due to lower cost of education in their countries. We can't compete with them. Why would we want to try?

No one wants to be an engineer, anymore. The big one avoided right now may not ever recover from its tarnished reputation. Really, why would anyone even think of stepping into a major like computer science after what has happened in the previous years? 9 out of 10 developers that work for the company I do have been offshored. I know I wouldn't return to the major I originally started in because of what I've seen.

"People are loath to do computer science because they think, Well, gosh, my job will just get outsourced," says Kevin W. Decker, president of the computer-science club at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. Mr. Decker is a junior majoring in computer science. The number of students pursuing bachelor's degrees in computer science at the university has dropped to 146, from 161 a year ago.

It doesn't help when the media pulls crap like this, either:

In fact, about half of what China calls “engineers” would be called “technicians” at best in the United States, with the equivalent of a vocational certificate or an associate degree. In addition, the McKinsey study of nine occupations, including engineering, concluded that “fewer than 10 percent of Chinese job candidates, on average, would be suitable for work (in a multinational company) in the nine occupations we studied.”