THE ENGINEER SHORTAGE
HPHE U.S. is currently in the grip of a shortage that Assistant Defense Secretary Donald Quarles ominously calls "potentially a greater threat to national security than any aggressor weapons known." That is the shortage of trained engineers. Just to keep pace .
with normal growth, the U.S. requires 30,000 new engineers annually; the new production burdens of the cold war require another 10,000 a year. But last year accredited U.S. schools graduated only 19,650 engineersless than half the required number. Lacking engineers, U.S. companies have begun refusing Government research...