Xiaofan Chen wrote:

> And I think there should be no worry for the steady drop of the number of
> engineering graduate students in US since most likely the Market will
> regulate this situations. Who knows one day an engineer can command a
> similar salary as a medical doctor and a lawyer if the demand exceeds
> supply by a significant amount. 

I don't think so. There's one big difference between engineers (electronic
engineers at least) and doctors and lawyers: engineers' knowledge is mostly
international. Doctors and lawyers are professions that are heavily
"nationalized". This makes it a natural move of bigger, multi-national
companies to put R&D facilities where they find good and cheap engineers.
The same doesn't apply to medical and legal services.

Gerhard

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