The Growing Demand For Qualified American Engineers and Scientists
There is talk that there is a shortage of qualified American engineers and scientists. The United States is the envy of the world when it comes to providing education for engineers and scientists and for creating a very competitive high tech sector.
If there is a shortage of scientists and engineers then the wages of high-tech laborers would increase rapidly, and the average earnings for scientists and engineers have indeed increased during the last decade.
Many foreign students are graduates in engineering and science. In fact, foreign students made up half of the Ph.Ds in electrical and communications engineering at American universities in the mid-1990s.
Perhaps one of the reasons that American students are not becoming scientists or engineers is a lack of continuing education of experienced engineers. Corporations do not want to train older engineers because they can easily hire from the large group of newer and cheaper engineers. Foreign graduate students are attractive in the fact that they are often bound to a company for many years as they wait for their green card approval.
The other problem is that graduate training is subsidized, and since this education pretty much guarantees a good, middle-class lifestyle, we as a country should ask why companies are granting the training to foreigners instead of fellow Americans.
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