Falkenheim [1]. The availability of a skilled workforce is an important predictor of a region's population, productivity, and technological growth. In , about 5. A total of 3. The rest were in biological, agricultural, and environmental life sciences life sciences , , physical sciences , , and social sciences , NOTES: Differences in employment estimates between any two states may not be statistically significant. State-level data may not add to U.
Both areas are located in the vicinity of Boston. NOTES: Differences in employment estimates between any two individual areas may not be statistically significant.
Posted in Blog. You have probably wondered how many PE's are out there? That's awesome! I would also venture to guess that the majority of those are civil engineering P. This total includes all the U. Virgin Islands. It also counts those that hold licenses in more than one state, which means that they might have been counted more than once.
According to the U. Bureau of Labor, there are 1. And that percentage increased significantly over the last two election cycles, reflecting the importance of technology to our economy and the growing awareness within the engineering community of the increasing technical complexity of many of the issues facing our nation.
On any issue of specific concern to the engineering community, the 4 percent minority with engineering or computing backgrounds in Congress are well positioned to champion technology-related legislation, but must be very persuasive to convince the majority to adopt a systems engineering, problem-solving approach to public policy-making on other issues. Apart from a general shared belief that technology is an important contributor to our economy and well-being, strong policy consensus on many topics — such as federal research priorities, net neutrality or funding of climate research — is still typically not the case.
Local constituent politics and political ideology continue to be the primary drivers of public policy preferences for most of the engineers currently serving in Congress, much like their colleagues with other professional backgrounds. Still, it is encouraging that the American public values the expertise and skills of engineers, as shown by their increasing willingness to elect them to Congress.
You must be logged in to post a comment. Hello, friends. Detailed employment and wage data for engineering occupations by industry and geographic location are available from the Occupational Employment Statistics survey. You can search occupations by career cluster, outlook, and other criteria.
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Thank an engineer. Projected new jobs BLS prepares employment projections for 18 engineering occupations. View Chart Data. Table 1. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections program.
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