Written by: 10/19/2011 3:59 PM
The total number of bachelors degrees in all fields has grown by 220 percent from 500,000 in 1966 to 1.6 million today while the numbers of engineers graduated has grown at half that rate from about 33,000 to just under 70,000. And the number of engineering graduates has pretty much been stagnant since the mid-1980s; i.e. for three decades.
Most of the statistical data in Dr. Vest's presentation comes from a report published by the National Academies Press titled; “Rising Above the Gathering Storm” published by the National Academies Press.
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