Study Sheds New Light on Engineering Statistics from China, India, and United States

摘要

Over the past few years, the U.S. science and engineering community has shown concern over reports of staggering numbers of engineers graduating in China and India, while its own engineering graduate numbers are shrinking. But those numbers are now being called into question by a study from Duke University that was recently highlighted in a news story broadcast by National Public Radio. The report Framing the Engineering Outsourcing Debate: Placing the United States on a Level Playing Field with China and India is part of an ongoing study by a team of students and faculty at Duke University to compare the number of U.S. engineering graduates to those in developing nations, particularly India and China. The report refutes widely circulated numbers that have China and India graduating 600,000 and 350,000 engineers each year, respectively, as compared to 70,000 engineering graduates from the United States.