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Bad numbers on engineers.(Indicators: Numbers, etc.)(Brief article)

The American Enterprise

| April 01, 2006 | Myers, Winfield; Zinsmeister, Karl | COPYRIGHT 2006 The American Enterprise, a national magazine of politics, business and culture (TEAmag.com). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

News stories these days warn darkly that India and China are overtaking the U.S. in a crucial area of technological expertise: the production of trained engineers. Statistics are bandied about purporting to show that universities in those developing lands churn out five to eight times as many engineers annually as their American counterparts.

But a new study by researchers at Duke University more precisely classifies the graduates produced in each place. It turns out the Chinese and ...

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