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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Petroleum engineering, engineering of any kind, robotics, computer science. Even the coding of computers requires advanced math skills That's great. But what percentage of our workforce do these professions comprise?[/quote] Actually, if you look at the job growth (current and projected) those specific fields are where the jobs are. The problem is that no one tells the kids that chemistry is having 40-year high in unemployment or that the future national need for theoretical physicists is in the hundreds. So, students go into these fields thinking they are getting into high-demand areas and then end up unemployed. Beryl Lieff Benderley has been chronicling this effect in [i]Science[/i] magazine for some time. (There's scholarly analysis to back this up too.) The problem is that we treat the S-T-E- and M as if it doesn't matter which of these fields you pursue, when it matters a whole lot. [/quote]
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