How "SAFE" is engineering major or engineering job???

SRB2006
Sat, 23 May 2009 22:11:26 +0000

I want to major on engineering in college, but my parents are always telling me that engineering is not a safe field anymore. (especially when all the products are being made in China and most of the computer engineers are in India) But I was wondering which engineering fields are still safe, will be growing in future, have no threat of being outsourced and have good money (starting $50000).

What type of engineering is most susceptible to outsourcing? What type of engineering is growing?
I know outsourcing is occurring so I wanted to know what type of engineering is most outsourced/ have the danger of being outsourced?

P.S.: Please take computer science/software engineering/data analysis engineering into count although those don’t count as “real” engineering)