Saturday, February 19, 2011

Winning the Future

A note from the President about his education initiative.  Interesting, but we still have a long way to go - I don't think we have everything we need to compete.



"Companies like Intel struggle to hire American workers with the skills to fill their needs."

To give you further perspective on that:
My research group is made up of 9 graduate students.  Of those, three are American.  One is an undergraduate, one is a masters student, and one is a doctoral student.  My company employs roughly 16 engineers (majority having doctorates).  Of those, 13 are Americans.  My company needs a specific type of engineer to help us create new products, unable to find an American candidate we're interviewing people from China. 

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