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Engineering degrees are like many things in this country, the supply is eventually governed by the needs of the marketplace. As the agriculture becomes more concentrated into fewer, larger farms, fewer farmers are required. Many everyday problems can be now solved with more concentrated technology that requires fewer actual degreed engineers. There are engineering firms that now have technicians taking the places of what PE's used to do(PE's still sign and stamp the plans after review). Some upstate colleges are actually reducing the engineering programs because of a lack of students. It is a curious situation. Students these days seem to be very career conscious and tend to pick occupations with growth possibilities. Maybe all we need is 70,000 degreed engineers..
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