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Post by aleedx on May 22, 2013 5:38:08 GMT -5
In next 100 years, which country do you think will lead the Engineering World?
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Post by FPEPro on May 22, 2013 13:30:56 GMT -5
As much as I hate to say this... It will most likely be China and India. They are pushing really hard to educate huge numbers of engineers right now. And with a population of near 2 billion each, they got the man power to saturate the industry.
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Post by Hellfire on May 22, 2013 13:36:04 GMT -5
I agree with Chris. I think he is absolutely correct!
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Post by apache2k12 on Jun 11, 2013 23:54:25 GMT -5
agreed .. although better engineering institutions are in america and Europe .. china and india dominates with respect to no. of manpower ..
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Post by aiyya11292 on Jun 12, 2013 13:24:02 GMT -5
how about Turkey I head a lot of ppl who wants to study eng go to Turkey
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Post by FPEPro on Jun 14, 2013 10:08:07 GMT -5
agreed .. although better engineering institutions are in america and Europe .. china and india dominates with respect to no. of manpower .. That may be so in the overall picture right now, but there are a few top notch engineering schools in both China and India currently. And as more students are educated abroad then return home, I suspect both will reach a point when there is no difference between the education they have locally and what can be found in the North America or Europe. What North America and Europe tend to have more of is research funding. That research funding drives allot of new technology and concepts that get their start in North American and European institutions. But as Economics equalize in India and China with respect to other countries, you will see their research contributions climb up as well. It's only a manner of time. Chris |
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Post by FPEPro on Jun 14, 2013 10:15:07 GMT -5
how about Turkey I head a lot of ppl who wants to study eng go to Turkey For Eastern Europe this is true to a point. The cost of living and education is not extremely high and their university system is decent. But outside of that, professionally they are not a world power in engineering and lack the infrastructure to really be one anytime soon. Furthermore, in comparison to the the countires that have already been mentioned, Turkey is simply a much smaller country, and lacks the sheer numbers to compete at the top. And honestly since there is still a mass migration of Turkish people leaving Turkey to go to Western Europe, that would imply there is not a tremendous amount of opportunity in their own country. None of this points towards Turkey being a world power in engineering anytime soon. Chris |
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Post by thursday on Jun 15, 2013 12:06:08 GMT -5
I believe this question has different answers depending upon how it is interpreted. Are we asking which nation will have the largest engineering sector? Produce the best engineers? Even that begs the question, how would you differentiate?
I think it's clear that the world's largest nations will have the largest engineering sectors and thus require a greater volume of engineers.
As for which nations will be producing the world's finest engineers, I think the answer is not straightforward to predict and nor do I believe it necessarily has much to do with the resources available or the demand for graduates.
Although China and India are obvious answers, I believe that situations can change very quickly. These two can afford to invest right now since their economies are a) large and b) bullish. By virtue of scale, they can assign largest quantities of money to projects in comparison to many First World nations, despite less resources per person.
But who is the say this will continue during bearish years? Perhaps in the future there could even be disruptive tension between Asian nations.
I think established institutions, eg MIT, Cambridge will manage to retain the best the world has to offer for a long time and I wonder if the cultures at these universities are in some way partially responsible for the people they produce.
Ultimately though, I don't know. It's simply airy conjecture.
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Post by jonwachob on Jun 24, 2013 19:23:17 GMT -5
I'm going to fly out on a limb and disagree with Chris. In 50 years China and India will probably be Engineering powerhouses - but in 100 years it could be anyone's game.
I'd bet my bottom dollar that it will be a European nation. 100 years is a very long time for a country to be innovative, and ultimately innovation is what creates an economy with lots of quality engineers.
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Post by aiyya11292 on Jun 26, 2013 12:33:10 GMT -5
I'm going to fly out on a limb and disagree with Chris. In 50 years China and India will probably be Engineering powerhouses - but in 100 years it could be anyone's game. I'd bet my bottom dollar that it will be a European nation. 100 years is a very long time for a country to be innovative, and ultimately innovation is what creates an economy with lots of quality engineers. yah l agree with u as we can also see that technolgy is also incressing day to day |
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Post by FPEPro on Jul 6, 2013 15:44:05 GMT -5
I'm going to fly out on a limb and disagree with Chris. In 50 years China and India will probably be Engineering powerhouses - but in 100 years it could be anyone's game. I'd bet my bottom dollar that it will be a European nation. 100 years is a very long time for a country to be innovative, and ultimately innovation is what creates an economy with lots of quality engineers. In a hundred years I am willing to bet anything the world as we know it will be a vastly different place. I for one doubt in a hundred years that countries and borders will any longer matter at all to engineering. They are already beginning to be irrelevant. I myself work remotely for a significant portion of my projects. And I have numerous colleagues that work remotely 100% of the time. I have a feeling this trend will only increase over time, with better means of transportation and virtual environments. What I said earlier was only intended to be applied to the near to mid-range future. At 100 years or more, all bets are off. Chris |
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Post by swoup on Jul 16, 2013 18:01:22 GMT -5
India or China.
Simple question of proportion. More inhabitant, more engineers, more geniuses. That's it.
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Post by jonwachob on Jul 21, 2013 13:16:05 GMT -5
That's terrible logic. If that is the case why has China not been the world leader for the last 100 years? Why not India?
Why was it that a small country at war with the world was able to create rocket and jet technology before the rest of the world? Why were their Scientist so much further along in Atomic Theory then the rest of the World?
Why has a tiny island country continually pushed the bounds of electrical engineering?
Why has a country of 350M people lead the World in Technology for the last 70 years? Most of which are fat and stupid.
It's never the size of our country that determiners their ability to lead the world. It is there work-ethic. America is slipping from the lead because our work-ethic has weakened.
Germany is weakening because most of their work ethic left after WWII and has been fighting to stay relevant since.
Japan has an INCREDIBLE work ethic but they have incredibly limited resources. So they do what they can with what they have.
China has a poor work ethic that has slowly been improving.
India just has a terrible work ethic.
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