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To: Paul V. who wrote (181206)	5/17/2005 12:12:51 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 186894

come on, using that analogy how can the US compete on anything ? There is more to producing a successful engineer than graduating some guy from a school. I'll just bet that if you tabulated all the "millionaire engineers" out there in the world today, you'd get a skew towards west coast US universities. Is that because Stanford, Berkeley and UofW are really the best schools in the world and the people graduating from there are uber-engineers? No of course not, the reason is because these schools serve as a sortof incubation facility for new companies and ideas, they are much more than engineering schools in that respect, and there you go. If I had to hire a new graduating engineer and I had a choice of some guy from the best school in china who graduated at the top of his class and was first in millions, vs. somebody graduating cum laude out here- it would be a tough choice especially if you were trying to build a company around the google infrastructure or msft infrastructure or something... I would take the guy from Cal, personally. All the hiring engineering managers know this. The whole "china graduates xxxxx more engineers than the US" is just a ploy for more tax breaks or who knows what.