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Factors Limiting Supply Response In an assessment of the adequacy of the engineer supply system a number of important variables come into play. One of these is the makeup of the pool of incoming engineering students, in terms of both demographics and academic ability.
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An interesting corollary of the increased attractiveness of engineering is that the demographics of engineering students have also changed recently: engineering deans and faculty note that many more students are now coming from the suburban middle and upper-middle class. A different factor that may have implications for engineering supply in the future is that, in general, the level of math and science literacy in the secondary-school population is declining {see, for example, National Commission on Excellence in Education, 1983~.
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