Ok, I was a bit unclear and peahrps a touch over-incendiary in my comment; let me clarify.Yes, there are excellent Universities with top science and engineering programs in middle America. And they produce excellent engineers. However, these graduates (who often move to the coasts after graduation) are not sources for low-cost high-tech outsourcing, as they're not cheap. I'm talking about the base population who work for lower middle-class wages; in India and China, young people in those salary grades will tend to have very strong basic math and science skills, and can write code. Not so true in middle America.At the higher level, where we're talking about scientific innovation, keep in mind that at least half of the Phd engineering students come from outside the US (Europe, India, China). In my field (computer science), it was over half when I was in graduate school. The innovation mostly happens in the US, but we import a lot of the talent that makes that happen. I can name countless technologies and companies started by Indians trained up to the end of undergrad in India, who then moved to the US to go to graduate school and stayed. Examples include the Pentium chip, Hotmail, and Sun. Rate this comment: 0 0
by Manana 08:48:28 AM 2013.06.30 |