The Terrible Threat of Chinese Engineers

Regarding U. S. Education, it is popular to complain that China is graduating thousands more engineers than we are. But how many of these touted foreign degrees aren’t worth the paper they’re written on? U.S. teachers serving in China find the schools riddled with favoritism for kids of party bosses.

Is it a matter for alarm that China graduates more engineers than we do? China’s population is numbered at 1,324,665,000 while ours is 307,006,550, so they probably have need of over four times as many engineers. Of what quality are these China degrees? As I’ve posted before, my brother computer science professor found that the Asian students, though good at memorized processes and formulas, were at a loss compared to the U.S. students when given open-end problems requiring original thinking. My engineer son works for a microchip maker that finds most of its Japan-educated engineers cannot match the U. S. hires.

It’s time for the public education critics to lay off this “Chinese engineers” malarkey.