Where (and Who) the Engineers Are

摘要

A new database from the nonprofit Population Reference Bureau provides the most detailed state-by-state snapshot yet of U.S. engineers and scientists. Collected from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2005 American Community Survey, the database highlights the location, earnings, and education of engineers, as well as participation of minorities, women, and foreign-born workers.The study was funded by the Sloan Foundation, which says it wants to establish the basic facts about the U.S. science and engineering workforce.Sloan vice president Michael Teit-elbaum writes on the foundation's Web site: "There are many signs of problems: simultaneous claims of both shortages and surpluses, low retention rates in undergraduate and graduate programs, increasing time to degree, movements to unionize graduate students, and rapid growth in post-doc numbers."