A few CS questions

aegrisomnia
Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:54:01 +0000

@turbo93 I don’t know, but it’s a good question. Maybe you know of a reliable source that could shed light on the matter? Maybe even one that shows it’s more of a problem in programming and SoftwareE than in ElectricalE and ComputerE?

Then again, we might want to just take on faith that 80% of new Software Engineering jobs will be taken by immigrants, while new EE jobs will be completely immune to it. That does sound more likely… and better safe than sorry.

@sumzup The question of what distinguishes “software engineering” from “programming” is just as hotly debated as the question of whether CS and/or software engineering is “real” engineering or not. The bottom line is that the BLS counts these two groups separately, but we’re free to lump them together if we like.

If you lump them together, they look like this:
Number of Jobs, 2010: 1276200
Job Outlook, 2010-20: 25% (Much? faster than average)
Employment Change, 2010-20: 314600