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<p>Cool… so MBA programs are filled with people weathering the storm. What does that have to do with engineering?</p>
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<p>Again, this is talking about graduate school as a whole, not engineering. Additionally, while an engineering program may get more applications, it is still the top students that will get in, and those top students could get jobs if they wanted to. Again, I don’t know a single person that I graduated with or that I have dealt with on a graduate level who didn’t have a job and went to grad school instead. Every engineering grad student I know had at least one job offer if they attempted to get one. Myself, I only half tried and still came up with two offers right in the heart of the recession.</p>
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<p>While this does mention engineering, it also only says that applications were up. As previously discussed, this does not mean that there are more people actually GOING to graduate school, just more applying. Those unemployed are still not going to get in ahead of the top students, who likely had job offers anyway.</p>
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<p>It is a software services company. They are not doing the physical design of the plane. Based on that article combined with experience, they are talking about design software. The work done there is the analog to what a CAD monkey would do. They technically take part in design, but they aren’t making the design decisions, they are just coding it up. The majority of that outsourcing is IT services though.</p>
<p>You aren’t going to win this one. You have demonstrated a clear lack of knowledge about engineering, especially aerospace engineering. Googling articles does not make you an expert. Having experience in engineering would allow you to read these articles and understand how to read them and read between the lines to understand what is actually going on.</p>