Susy,

Thanks for letting us know that JETS is still propagandizing on behalf
of corporations wishing to reduce salaries and increase H1-B visa
quotas.  With offshoring, high turnover, and only 60,000 US engineering
graduates to China and India's 400,000(?), its not hard to see why
engineering in the US is not a viable career choice.

If each of us here gave an hour presentation at a local high school, we
could probably discourage several hundred people duped into believing
JETS propaganda, and also benefit those who do go into the field by
reducing the supply, thus supporting salaries.

Regards-
Michael Howell


Susy Webb wrote:

>All,
>
>I was poking around on Yahoo, and I saw one of the news headlines said that US News and World Report magazine had named the "best jobs" of 2006.
>http://biz.yahoo.com/special/job06.html Out of curiosity, I clicked on it and one of them was engineering..... Surprised and intriqued, I clicked on that and it had this description:
>
>Engineer. This can be marvelous work for people who enjoy using math and science to create products. Turnover is very low, although twice as many women as men leave the profession. Training, not surprisingly, can be long and grueling and often irrelevant. One engineer I met, who works for General Dynamics, told me that 95 percent of what he learned in college-a prestigious one-was irrelevant to his work. One career hazard is the offshoring of technical work to low-cost countries like India and China, with thousands of skilled engineers willing to work for 80 percent less than their counterparts in the United States. Some of the safest jobs involve government-related work.
>
>To learn more
>OOH profile: www.bls.gov/oco/ocos027.htm <http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos027.htm>
>Junior Engineering Technical Society: www.jets.org <http://www.jets.org>
>Read: Opportunities in Engineering Careers by Nicholas Basta
>
>The point of all this is the Junior Engineering Technical Society mentioned above. I looked at their web page, and it says "JETS is a non-profit education organization, established in 1950 to inform and excite young people about careers in engineering. JETS now serves more than 30,000 students and 5,000 teachers and holds programs on more than 150 college campuses each year." Has anyone ever heard of this organization? It sounds like a place to get the word out about our profession.... as was the topic of conversation here a week or so ago.
>
>Even with the warning about offshoring, they are recommending engineering as one of the best jobs for 2006.
>
>Interesting.....
>Susy
>
>

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