In previous salary surveys, NACE has not broken down engineering degrees into such specific categories.
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There are several majors with better growth potential than the assorted engineering degrees.
In 2010, U.S. universities awarded 45% of all science and engineering degrees to Asians, according to the Pew study.
He speaks four languages and holds engineering degrees from two prestigious French universities.
One reason the number of engineering degrees has not grown much is that the programs tend to be very rigorous.
Statistics show that the number of engineering degrees awarded in the U.S. is down 20% from its peak in 1985.
This may surprise many Americans, as our Nation is falling behind other countries in terms of awarding advanced science and engineering degrees.
It is also the most engineer-intensive country, with 981 engineering degrees per million citizens, compared with 553 for China and 197 for India.
Thinking of engineers here, and the clamoring for more engineering degrees, anyone teaching the discipline would as a rule be imparting knowledge of no practical use.
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Women earned less than 19% of computer science and engineering degrees in the U.S. in 2007, drastically down from the 37% of degrees they received in 1985.
Today, Alice holds Mechanical Engineering degrees from MIT and Stanford.
In Morocco those with science and engineering degrees, computer skills and languages go to France, the Netherlands and Canada, whereas the students of literature and public administration stay at home.
It is telling its members that they may have to pay more, especially to recruit those with engineering degrees, who are being snapped up by accountancy firms keen to attract numerate graduates.
Twenty of Lims 75 employees hold engineering graduate degrees.
John Chuang, who received engineering and business degrees in the U.K. before moving to the U.S. for six years, had his own ideas about selling chocolate.
And that means America has to lead in education. (Applause.) That's why we're working with educators to transform our schools, and make college more affordable, and prepare our kids for science and engineering and technical degrees -- because those are going to be the jobs of the future.
In 1963 he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale with degrees in engineering and economics.
Other students, like 2008 Stern alum Mark and his teammate, Langone MBA1 Yao Pang, hold background degrees in Engineering.
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During his time in Kazakhstan things never went smoothly for Perry, a Dartmouth graduate with degrees in engineering and Russian and a former U.S. Navy lieutenant.
This may provide some comfort to parents who have recently sent in deposits and are worrying about the futility of a liberal arts education versus more practical degrees in engineering, computer science or say, nursing.
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One other gap between expectations and reality: Despite numerous studies showing that there is a high demand for graduates with engineering and computer science degrees, new grads most want to work in education, media and entertainment, and healthcare.
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And while we provide students from around the world visas to get engineering and computer science degrees at our top universities, our laws discourage them from using those skills to start a business or power a new industry right here in the United States.
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D. degrees granted in engineering andsciences at American universities go to foreign students.
They both earned degrees in electrical engineering, with Alain graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986 at age 19.
She got a couple of degrees in civil engineering and that got her thinking about applying her biological modeling work to the built environment.
Lynch is a graduate of Lowell Technological Institute (now University of Massachusetts) where he received bachelors and masters degrees in electrical engineering (1970 and 1972 respectively).
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Decades later, in September 2008, Bhappu, who has degrees in metallurgical engineering and mineral economics, led a group that included Goldman Sachs to purchase Molycorp from Chevron.
Mr. Bakrie and Mr. Panigoro share a history that goes back the prestigious Bandung Institute of Technology, where they graduated with degrees in electrical engineering in 1973.
After growing up in Socorro, New Mexico, Bhappu got degrees in metallurgical engineering at the University of Arizona, and a PhD in mineral economics from the Colorado School of Mines.
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