<p>“Brooklynborndad: was she fairly new to the school? I am thinking there is not a whole lot of turnover at the school so she could have been the low person on the totem pole”</p>
<p>She was fairly new to the school, and yes, we were told, IIRC, that it was largely a matter of seniority. Still, we were disappointed. </p>
<p>"Look what they have done, 9-10% GDP growth every year for the last 20 years. "</p>
<p>I would suggest that adopting an economic model of export led growth pioneered by Japan, and then by South Korea and Taiwan, and then by Malaysia, Thailand, etc and doing it from a very low wage level baseline, had SOMETHING to do with that. </p>
<p>Note, the only US presidents to be trained engineers were Herbert Hoover, and Jimmy Carter (if we exclude George Washington, a surveyor) </p>
<p>I am all for the importance of engineering (and if she changes her mind about Arch, I will be VERY supportive if she changes to Civil E) but I am not sure I would push for more engineers as political leaders ;)</p>