September 8, 2006
Foreign Academics Question the Quality of Their Countries' Engineering Programs
A cartoon in Fortune magazine last year summed up one of the factors driving the push for the U.S. government to help educate more scientists and engineers: a muscular China is standing on a beach, pushing a skinny Uncle Sam around in the sand. "Is the U.S. a 97-Pound Weakling?" the headline read.
The growing number of scientists and engineers being educated in China and India has raised fears in the United States that those countries may take the lead in the production of
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