Mexico: Pumping Out Engineers
Posted on May 19, 2006 Comments (4)
Currently, 451,000 Mexican students are enrolled in full-time undergraduate programs, vs. just over 370,000 in the U.S. The Mexican students benefit from high-tech equipment and materials donated to their schools by foreign companies, which help develop course content to fit their needs. Many of these engineers graduate knowing how to use the latest computer-assisted design (CAD) software and speaking fluent English.
Another country on the engineering education bandwagon for economic growth.
Those figures are quite impressive. I would like to see what Vivek Wadhwa (one of the authors of the Duke study: USA Under-counting Engineering Graduates) says about the comparability of the figures. Still, the number of engineering undergraduate students in Mexico surprises me; this is one more indication of how many people see the value of engineering education.
Related:
- Engineering Education Worldwide
- America’s Technology Advantage Slipping
- Top degree for S&P 500 CEOs? Engineering
- Engineering in America
- About That Engineering Gap… by Vivek Wadhwa, BusinessWeek Dec 2005.
- China’s Economic Science Experiment
- Shortage of Engineers?
Posted by curiouscat
Categories: Economics, Engineering, Universities
Tags: economy, engineering education, Mexico
Categories: Economics, Engineering, Universities
Tags: economy, engineering education, Mexico
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