Foreign and Foreign-Born Engineers in the United States Infusing Talent, Raising Issues (1988) / Chapter Skim
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me largest fractions of foreign engineers were explored in 1982 in electrical or electronic engineering and in mechanical engineering, with rep~ntations of about 28 percent and 23 percent, relatively, of all foreign engineers. 6 The most reliable source of data on the foreign engineering labor forge is the National Science Faction ' s (NSF)
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Citizens NOTE: This figure deludes orgy irxlivicluals reporting ~pl~nt In engineering occupations In 1982. SEWS: Special Cations face Oak Ridge Associate Universities, bash on the National Science F~tion's 1982 Pos~nsal Survey.
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firms employing engineers have some foreign engineers among their employees, especially In R&D firms employing eng meets. Only about 9 percent of all of the foreign eng beers and about 4 percent of the naturalized engineers were employed in 1982 in academia, a ~ their proportions among all eng bearing faculty members were about 8 .
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Visas 1970 1972 1974 1976 1978 Year 1980 1982 1984 SOURCE: Unpublished tabulations from the National Rearm Council ' s Doctorate Records File. FIGURE 3 Er~ln~ring doctorates awarded to U
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Latin America [:1 Middle East ~ Other 1 42.00% Profi ~es, 1983/84, IIGURE 4 Foreign eng~n~ring students, by area of origin, 1983-84.
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