While that statistic is often taken to mean that LA graduates a lot of programmers (which it does), in reality, a large portion of those engineers are also your PhD-level aerospace engineers, graduate-level electrical engineers and Caltech mechanical engineering grads.
Mahesh Sawant, of Frost & Sullivan, a consultancy, says that the country has 122,000 chemists and chemical engineers graduating each year.
It was an accomplished lineup of engineers, graduate students, and bank employees, in their late twenties and early thirties.
"There are more engineers graduating in India every year for the last eight years than in the whole of Europe," Mr Williams says.
Ms. Bovee's shift in the emphasis of her studies, from mechanical to other engineering disciplines, mirrors changes under way not just in the auto industry but in the classes of engineers graduating from universities.
Ms Goeser says that Mexican workers are well qualified as well as cheap: more engineers graduate in Mexico each year than in Germany, she points out.In Aguascalientes, not far away, Nissan is building a $2 billion factory.
[There's a long and useful essay on the case by Jordan in New Scientist.] More than 5,000 scientists, engineers, graduate students and academicians have signed an open letter to Italy's president decrying the trial.
An article in Business Day on Thursday about Conexant Systems' hiring of research engineers in India included an outdated reference to the number of engineers graduating in the United States.
In "Advantage," you make the case for American "software" in innovation, but American executives often say we shouldn't be confident; they cite some familiar numbers on Chinese engineers graduating each year, rising Chinese investment in R. & D., new infrastructure, and so on.
Adding to the problem, the number of engineers graduating from U.S. colleges has leveled off.
