[quote=CONCHO]Another reason kids aren’t majoring in engineering is because we have outsourced all the jobs. The news for the last 20+ years has been all about how engineering jobs are moving to India and China. Now if you’re a student graduating HS and looking for a career to take you through the next 40+ years, why would you choose one that seems to be dying off? While it’s true that there is still demand here, there isn’t a lot of demand for new grads. Many companies will post an opening asking for someone who has 10 years experience with everything under the sun at a salary of $80K/year. When they can’t find it they have their excuse to go to Wipro or Infosys.[/quote]

My experience in (semiconductor) engineering has been the complete opposite. Haven’t seen much non-IT outsourcing (and that’s gone to Texas, not India), and we’ve had job reqs open for months at a time in the last year. We’re still hiring new grads, and poaching unemployed talent where it can be had.

I’ve heard noise that by 2020, the US will only be educating enough engineers to fill 70% of domestic positions.