Is engineering getting too popular?

[Professor101]

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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.

There is some truth to it, but not entirely. China now is the largest market for many products, phones, webusers, TV, washing machine, etc., you name it. My point was enginneers are much more highly regarded in China than in US.</p>

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Note, the only US presidents to be trained engineers were Herbert Hoover, and Jimmy Carter (if we exclude George Washington, a surveyor)

Ironically, Hoover was a mining engineer in China in the early 1900’s. I think that Carter was a physicist though I could be wrong. Lincoln and Jefferson also did land surveying. Monticello still has the instrument that Jefferson used for surveying.</p>