Interesting statistic (Dan H.)

Dale

I wonder where the current ones were born? Most large job engineering comes out of India and most US firms send work to India at night. At the local U there are very few US born students in the Masters or PHD engineering programs. Wonder what the future will look like.

DanHolohan

Number of mechanical engineers in the US

In 1880, there were 7,000 mechanical engineers in the US.

By 1920, there were 136,000.

By 1930, there were 226,000.

In 1913, the Atlantic Monthly stated that "Machinery is our new art form."

What's fascinating is that in 2004 there were still 226,000 mechanical engineers registered in the US.

DanHolohan

Here's the total:

Total, all engineers 1,449,000 100%


Civil 237,000 16.4

Mechanical 226,000 15.6

Industrial 177,000 12.2

Electrical 156,000 10.8

Electronics, except computer 143,000 9.9

Computer hardware 77,000 5.3

Aerospace 76,000 5.2

Environmental 49,000 3.4

Chemical 31,000 2.1

Health and safety, except mining safety 27,000 1.8

Materials 21,000 1.5

Nuclear 17,000 1.2

Petroleum 16,000 1.1

Biomedical 9,700 0.7

Marine engineers and naval architects 6,800 0.5

Mining and geological, including mining safety 5,200 0.4

Agricultural 3,400 0.2

All other engineers 172,000 11.8

gerry gill

wonder what the population

growth has been since 1930? now for the big question, hehe, if the % of engineers has gone down, whats the numbers for lawyers?

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S Ebels

I think

We all know the answer to that.

Brad White_9

Old Confucius Say....

One lawyer in town starve to death. Two do very nicely!

PJO_5

You are right sir...

There are many engineers...just not in this country anymore. One of the "victims" of the electronic age, because it's so easy to get specs/drawings/etc. done overseas for a much lower rate.

Sad but true...

Take Care, PJO

Matt_21

i thought confucious

say... Man entering plane walking sideways, going to bangkok.