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US VS INDIA AND CHINA - ENGINEERING GRADUATES
STATISTICS
US top tech nation, says study
US still churns out more engineers than India and China.
29 December, 2005
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
If you thought the United States is being relegated to the backyards of technology, it could be far from the truth.
According to a study conducted by the Duke University in North Carolina the US still retains a lead over churning out engineers vis-a-vis India and China.
Various media reports had suggested earlier that the United States was graduating 70,000 engineers a year, compared with India's 3,50,000 and China's 600,000.
The study, 'Framing the Engineering Outsourcing Debate: Placing the United States on a Level Playing Field with China and India,' found that the numbers were wrong.
It said the accuracy was missing as China and India include graduates of three-year degrees and other technical certifications like diplomas in their statistics, swelling their numbers.
''The United States actually graduates more engineers than India, and the Chinese numbers are misleading. On a per capita basis, the United States still has a strong lead as it graduates over 750 engineers per million, India graduates only 200 engineers per million and China graduates 500 per million,'' according to the study.
The study also attempted to dissect definitions used to describe the word'engineer' in a bid to come to a better understanding of available data.
Engineers capable of taking jobs away from US Graduates and are able to lead innovation are known as dynamic engineeers.
As per the findings of the study, dynamic engineers who graduate from recognised varsities with specialised language skills form a miniscule percentage of the total number of engineers graduating from China and India.
It also said the threat perception should be downgraded as high-end jobs are still considered as not "outsourcable" .
The US still is producing a competitive number of engineers, computer scientists and information technology specialists, as per the study.
The study also identified the task ahead for the US as "maintaining its technological edge" as an innovator.
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