Apparently the WSJ authors were unaware of the work of the Rutgers group which is studying this very (alleged) trend, namely, not enough STEM grads to feed the (again alleged) STEM career pipelines: http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2009/10/28/10engineer.h29.html?tkn=ZQ[FHhMHPmR0MnDTN3v8WfWt%2FKowJkPYxxn2 Quoting directly:  ''“This ...

One thing that kept bothering me was that no one appeared to be even thinking of, much less estimating, job losses caused by green energy mandates. The renewable energy people are always quoting the number of green jobs created for this or that project, but no one even seems to be thinking about the jobs lost due to inefficient use of resources, ...

Very good. So vo/tech students are still getting hands on apprenticing. What about 4yr B.S. engineering students? Anybody still do that?

I am quite surprised no one has commented on this; this is a very interesting topic. Does anybody know if the US ever had the ''German apprentice model'' (for lack of a better term) in which engineers are expected to apprentice in businesses like machine shops (for mechanical engineers), before one could actually become an engineer? I have read ...

Interesting approach (do all ou GCC disciples read the same manual for attacking GCC theory opponents?). The editorial has a limited space, so he can't present many facts from the report, and he certainly doesn't have the space to substantiate and cross reference every statement he makes--but the editor does give you a place to look, and yet you ...

bcstractor: Maybe if you would have read the report instead of just shooting from the hip, you would have some idea how that $3.25/mile in energy costs for the Prius was calculated. Included in this calculation were energy cost of producing the vehicles, cost of running the vehicle, and cost of recycling the vehicle, something you obviously did ...