The Engineers of the Future Will Not Resemble the Engineers of the Past

Moshe Waserman:

Aaran,


The US educates many international students.  

For example, Indian graduate students in computer science and engineering at U.S. universities are a key source of talent for U.S. companies. 

Some 288,000 international students study in the US and around 85,000 Indian students at Masters degree in Engineering and CS programs study in the US annually. I think there was a decline to 69,000 this year due to visa restrictions.

When some graduates stay and much return to India they become geographically distributed professional force. 

Interfacing with such graduates and being members such teams is much more successful than with local graduates of Indian universities.

Geographically distributed teams that contain US graduates overcome cultural barriers among others and have a much lower turnaround.

Some say international students are America’s “golden goose.” They provide billions of dollars to the U.S. economy every year, support the education of U.S. students and are a key source of talent that helps make American tech companies successful.

International students also strong political force as when they return to the home countries they are less hostile and more friendly "ambassadors"  out there.

Obviously, this is a political issue as well and some US parents and students protest and took legal action as they cant get enrolled in universities due to the preferable placement of international students. 

In 2016 it picked but after the elections and the new direction the numbers of international students declined by 20%. 

It is interesting that many classes that offered, and I took such classes are global in scope. The problems and exercises include third world less-developed countries and highly developed countries. Comparisons and deeper studies between different countries solutions and approaches are made. In electives, the student can avoid taking such classes if they don't want to solve engineering problems in Africa or other continents and concentrate more on the US system.  ABET accreditation provides a feedback mechanism that helps to adjust the relevance of the Engineering, Technology, and CS programs to the industry need.

 

Moshe Waserman:

Aaran,


The US educates many international students.  

For example, Indian graduate students in computer science and engineering at U.S. universities are a key source of talent for U.S. companies. 

Some 288,000 international students study in the US and around 85,000 Indian students at Masters degree in Engineering and CS programs study in the US annually. I think there was a decline to 69,000 this year due to visa restrictions.

When some graduates stay and much return to India they become geographically distributed professional force. 

Interfacing with such graduates and being members such teams is much more successful than with local graduates of Indian universities.

Geographically distributed teams that contain US graduates overcome cultural barriers among others and have a much lower turnaround.

Some say international students are America’s “golden goose.” They provide billions of dollars to the U.S. economy every year, support the education of U.S. students and are a key source of talent that helps make American tech companies successful.

International students also strong political force as when they return to the home countries they are less hostile and more friendly "ambassadors"  out there.

Obviously, this is a political issue as well and some US parents and students protest and took legal action as they cant get enrolled in universities due to the preferable placement of international students. 

In 2016 it picked but after the elections and the new direction the numbers of international students declined by 20%. 

It is interesting that many classes that offered, and I took such classes are global in scope. The problems and exercises include third world less-developed countries and highly developed countries. Comparisons and deeper studies between different countries solutions and approaches are made. In electives, the student can avoid taking such classes if they don't want to solve engineering problems in Africa or other continents and concentrate more on the US system.  ABET accreditation provides a feedback mechanism that helps to adjust the relevance of the Engineering, Technology, and CS programs to the industry need.