What % of your classmates changed majors away from engineering?

Mr_Payne
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:48:41 +0000

As a case in point, consider the recent history of China and (especially) India. These countries aren’t really producing that many more engineers (as a % of their population) than they were 30 years ago.

Source, please.



Well, I would actually argue that political/economic reforms are the true quickest way to national wealth. The Soviet Union/Russia, for example, had plenty of technical innovation, graduating immense numbers of engineers per year, and being the first nation to send a man in space and the 2nd nation to develop nuclear weapons. Yet that didn’t save its economy from stagnation and its people from poverty.

Well, if we are gonna get nitpicky then I could simply mention that intellect is more important than technical innovation or political/economic reforms in terms of economic growth. Please, when I’m referencing OECD economies it’s pretty obvious what I meant. I’ll take it that you agree with me that technical innovation is very important to growing our economy.