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The article presents a study on the impact of globalization on the engineering profession. Various articles in the popular media, speeches by policymakers and reports to the U.S. Congress have stated that the U.S. graduates roughly 70,000 undergraduate engineers annually, whereas China graduates 600,000 and India 350,000. The surge in engineering graduation rates in China can be traced to a series of top-down government policy changes that began in 1999. In India, the growth in engineering education has been largely bottom-up and market-driven. There are a few regulatory bodies that set limits on intake capacities, but the public education system is mired in politics and inefficiency.

The article addresses myths about engineering talent in China and India, which are research and development centers as place for low-cost software development, engineering centers as place for low-end peripheral work, and incapacity of engineers to design products for local markets.

This article presents graphical information about the global trend of outsourcing jobs to other countries. In theory, more than one-tenth of the developed world's service jobs could be outsourced to low-wage countries like China and India. It turns out that only a fraction of those dirt-cheap engineers, financiers, accountants, scientists, and other professionals churned out by universities in China, India, and elsewhere can be put to effective use by multinational corporations anytime soon. The U.S. still leads the global pack in the number of young engineers who could successfully work at a multinational company--and among low-wage countries China and India face some surprising rivals.

The article focuses on the myth that a large number of Chinese and Indian engineers and scientists could threaten the United States' technical superiority. It is said that although the number of scientists and engineers in these countries is growing, many of them are unable to find work, and many of them are considered unqualified. This is a result of an educational crisis caused both by underfunding and a lack of university teachers.

The article reports on the results of a study suggesting that although the U.S. is lagging in its ability to turn out adequate numbers of engineering graduates, the idea that India and China are exceeding America's ability to produce technical professionals is a misconception. It was found that the U.S. is still the leader in graduating engineering and technical-related professionals on a per-capita basis.

The article presents information on the new study, led by Vivek Wadhwa, an executive-in-residence at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and Duke sociologist Gary Gereffi, on the actual number engineers produced annually by the United State. It is quite often claimed that the U.S. is losing its technological edge in a global economy. Those sounding the alarm frequently claim that India and China hold a five to 10-fold advantage in the annual production of engineers. The researchers broadened the U.S. definition of engineering degrees accordingly, using data from the U.S. Department of Education and U.S. engineering societies. The result boosted the annual U.S. production of engineers to 221,000.

Compares the salaries of system engineers in the U.S., China and India in 2005.

This article provides the real story about the threat to competitiveness posed by China and India against the U.S. in the area of producing engineers. A common argument is that the U.S. graduate just 70,000 engineers a year versus 350,000 in India and 600,000 in China, therefore the U.S. is in trouble. We reported that the U.S. is actually graduating more engineers than India, and the China numbers are not quite what they seem. In short, we showed that the U.S. is in much better shape than most people think.

This article presents an opinion regarding education research studies that point to a gap in engineering between the U.S. and developed countries in Asia. A "Fortune" magazine issue claimed that 70,000 American engineers will graduate compared to 350,000 Indian engineers and 600,000 Chinese engineers. Duke University's Center for Globalization Governance and Competitiveness published the qualitative analysis "Framing the Engineering Outsourcing Debate".

The article focuses on the shortage of engineers in the U.S. as of January 2006. As the economies of India and China improve, experts in the U.S. discuss ways for the country to stay ahead. One of the things considered is the improvement of education financing and research. The shortage was caused mainly by the spread of outsourcing in industry.

The article focuses on a report, released last month by Duke University, which states that business leaders and politicians in the U.S. could be scaring away high school students from pursuing mathematics and science-related careers by focusing on the large numbers of engineers produced by China and India. The U.S. in 2004 actually produced 137,400 engineers, compared with 351,500 in China and 112,000 in India. Many leaders in American business and government say they are worried that U.S. students' weaknesses in mathematics and science have made the country more vulnerable to foreign competitors.

Focuses on the diminishing capability of the U.S. to maintain competitive manufacturing leadership and parity according to James W. Bagley, chairman of Lam Research Corp. Comparison with China, which is becoming competitive in manufacturing technology, software, and engineering capability; Statistics on the number of engineering graduates per year in the U.S., India and China.

In this article the author discusses the truth behind the boom of Chinese and Indian engineers. He cites that President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness member Paul Otellini is example of those people who believe that China and India are educating an army of engineers that could reduce U.S. to a techno-backwater in terms of being a leader in technology. He says that there are problems with statistics especially with China, where there is no uniform definition of engineers.

The article compares the engineering graduate students from the U.S., India and China. A group at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University questioned the statistics which shows that China graduates 600,000 engineers from institutions of higher education, India graduates 350,000 and only 70,000 come from the U.S. The group determined using what they call apples-to-apples comparisons, the U.S. graduated 222,335 engineers and India 215,000. China's closest comparable numbers reported 644,106 graduates but many of the majors included in the classification engineer were not ones used in the U.S. or India.

The article addresses the issue regarding the shortage of engineers and engineering graduates in the U.S. as of February 2006. Reports indicate that there is a gap between the current and future demand for engineers in the country. According to the American Association of Engineering Societies, 76,003 engineers graduated from U.S.-based institutions in 2005. Back in 1986, as high as 85,000 engineers graduated from U.S. schools. Concerns are arising from various sectors that there is much greater annual numbers of engineering graduates from China and India, 600,000 and 350,000, respectively.

The article discusses the impact of globalization on the engineering profession. Companies that compete in the global market hire technologists from Asia because of engineers. China produces 220, 000 basic engineering graduates a year. Manufacturing output is growing at 8% in emerging markets but only 3% in the U.S. As multinational businesses compete to increase their manufacturing and marketing presence in developing countries, they look to native engineers to take on design and research tasks. Globalization is causing a shift in the location of research, design and development. With the introduction of the Internet, technical jobs can literally be shipped overseas. According to the U.S. Labor Department, the number of jobs that shifted to lower-wage countries in the first quarter of 2004 was 4,633. One reason for the situation is that the outsourcing concept does not match the global economy at present. Outsourcing assumes that the company is located in the U.S. or Europe and subcontracts its technology service to an independent overseas subcontractor that supplies low-wage service workers to replace workers in higher-wage countries requiring the service. India's economy will grow by close to 75% in 2004 due to outsourcing operations.