He has nothing but praise for the skill and high quality of Italian engineering graduates.
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He warned there would be a deficit of 60, 000 engineering graduates this year.
He prefers the latter, noting that the U.S. doesn't produce enough science, math and engineering graduates to fill the open posts in high-tech.
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Even in making machine-tools, it defers only to the United States, Japan and Germany, and engineering graduates from Turin and Milan are world-class.
Inventor Sir James Dyson has called on the government to do more to boost the UK's technology industry, warning of a shortfall of engineering graduates.
He thinks that good managers may be at least as valuable as science and engineering graduates (though given where he works, perhaps he is talking his own book).
Engineering graduates will still earn far higher salaries, on average, than the typical new college graduate, according to the latest salary survey from the National Association of Colleges and Employers.
NASSCOM, the IT industry's lobby group, reckons that of the 350, 000 engineering graduates who emerge each year, mostly from private colleges, 25% are unemployable without extensive further training, and half are just unemployable.
Typically an innovation index will use solid, reliable and traditional metrics like numbers of patents registered, number of third and fourth level maths and engineering graduates leaving university, and the existence of industry clusters.
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Plenty of people have pointed out that China produces more science and engineering graduates than the United States does, is catching up in patents, has overtaken America as the home of the auto and so on.
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Gates wants to see more funding for a National Science Foundation program for math, science and engineering graduates students, and he suggested that at the high school level, math and science teachers should be paid more.
There were approximately 96 listings for high-paying jobs per 1, 000 residents in the area, which contains the headquarters of major corporations such as Adobe Systems, Cisco Systems, and eBay, as well as esteemed universities like Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley, which are notorious for pumping thousands of computer science and engineering graduates into the local job market each year.
The area around the city that has dubbed itself "the capital of Silicon Valley" is home to the headquarters of major corporations such as Adobe Systems, Cisco Systems and eBay, as well as esteemed universities like Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley, which are notorious for pumping thousands of computer science and engineering graduates into the local job market each year.
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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Volcker also bemoaned the tendency for engineering, math and physics graduates to go into finance rather than industry.
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The President continues to be committed to encouraging the entrepreneurial spirit in our country, starting with setting a goal of 1 million Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM) graduates over the next decade.
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But one of the ways in which America can improve is by increasing the number of graduates in science and engineering.
In 2011, there were only 178 graduates who majored in mining engineering, down from 700 in 1982.
Fewer than 6% of U.S. high school graduates plan to go into engineering.
The QE Prize was awarded as a report claimed there was an annual shortfall in the UK of 40, 000 home-grown graduates in science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) subjects.
Yet an extensive study found that between the early 1970s and late 1990s American colleges produced more than enough graduates in science, technology, engineering and maths to meet demand.
Most of them were graduate engineers, graduates of MIT, members of the Engineering Duty Officer Corps Elites.
There would be less truth in that caricature if British graduates in disciplines such as science and engineering gained some familiarity with business as part of their studies (it is noteworthy that the best British universities discourage students from earning money while they learn, while at American ones most are obliged to).
More than 5, 000 French people died, many of them graduates of the country's most prestigious engineering schools.
Also in May, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) posted an expanded list of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) degrees that enable graduates to qualify for an extra 17 months of Optional Practical Training (OPT).
Almost everyone agrees to encouraging STEM immigrants, that is, foreign graduates of American universities in science, technology, engineering, and math.
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The STAR Act, introduced by John Cornyn (R-TX), would eliminate the diversity lottery and redirect those green cards toward foreign graduates of American universities in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields (STEM).
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We should help foreign graduates and foreign professionals, particularly in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, through an increased number of available H-1B work visas and a STEM green card program.
Health care, business and the STEM majors (science, technology, engineering and math) are more stable and higher paying for recent college graduates, whereas graduates of the arts, humanities and social sciences face higher unemployment rates and earn lower salaries.
Conversely, health care, business, and the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math) have been more stable and higher paying for recent college graduates.
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