Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 20:59:04 -0500
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [WSFA] What STEM shortage? Electrical engineering lost 35,000 jobs last
 year
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Excerpt:
Despite an expanding use of electronics in products, the number of people
working as electrical engineers in U.S. declined by 10.4% last year.

The decline amounted to a loss of 35,000 jobs and increased the
unemployment rate for electrical engineers from 3.4% in 2012 to 4.8% last
year, an unusually high rate of job losses for this occupation.

There are 300,000 people working as electrical engineers, according to
U.S. Labor Department data analyzed by the IEEE-USA. In 2002, there were
385,000 electrical engineers in the U.S.

The trend in electrical engineering employment is occurring despite the
emergence of the so-called Internet of Things, which promises to put
networked electronics into every imaginable consumer and industrial
product.
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<http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9245494/What_STEM_shortage_Electrical_engineering_lost_35_000_jobs_last_year>

          mark