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in which country is the great amount of engineers?
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in which country is the great amount of engineers?

in which country is the great amount of engineers?

(OP)
i was told that in europe, there is a lack of engineers?
what about USA, Australia, Africa...?

where can we found the most famous engineers in the world?

thanks for answering...

RE: in which country is the great amount of engineers?

(OP)
hi,

i agree with you. you have in the USA the most famous engineers.

but USA is bigger than france or german.

however, the american engineers have always made a good job.
but don't forget the others...

        congratulation.

RE: in which country is the great amount of engineers?

In the U.S. we are also fortunate that many of the greatest engineers and scientists of our time come here from other countries.

RE: in which country is the great amount of engineers?

China and India? At least that is the current panic in the US....

-The future's so bright I gotta wear shades!

RE: in which country is the great amount of engineers?

In the left-hand menu nar, near the bottom, there is a block called Geography.  Clicking that will give you an idea of teh members of Eng-Tips.

"Art without engineering is dreaming; Engineering without art is calculating."
Steven K. Roberts, Technomad
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RE: in which country is the great amount of engineers?

...and of course, only the worlds GREATEST engineers join Eng-Tips!

So if we use Eng-Tips as a guide, the USA wins hands down. .052% of the US population belongs to Eng-Tips compared to .046% of the UK, and only .0059% of the population of Germany! Just for grins though, India is just barely beat by Germany, with .0053% of their population, but it is still one heck of a lot more members (14 times as many)!



For whatever that is worth.

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RE: in which country is the great amount of engineers?

I'm a USA engineer - 25 years + experience.  I must say, though, that I've always been impressed by the engineering talents, projects, and performance of many engineers from other countries....India, Europe, etc.  The work that many German engineers did in developing space travel.  The work of engineers such as Fazler Khan in structural design, etc.

I don't think that nationality is that important to the quality of the engineer...I think we engineers were born with a unique DNA or gene that simply makes us think different than the typical person.  Yes...we are weird.  But we invent and solve.

RE: in which country is the great amount of engineers?

(OP)
i absolutely agree with you, JAE.

 nevermind where we come from; the most important thing is what you have in  your brain...and your capacity to solve problems.

RE: in which country is the great amount of engineers?

Quote (JAE):

I think we engineers were born with a unique DNA or gene that simply makes us think different than the typical person.

I respectfully disagree. Engineers are people who decided on an engineering profession. I believe lots of people in other profession can be as good an engineer as any I have met. I also believe lots of engineers can be as good in another profession as any in those professions that I have met.



On a different note, I started a thread that may interest you:

Definition of an Engineer
thread730-152809

You may wish to contribute to the thread.

"Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater."   
Albert Einstein
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RE: in which country is the great amount of engineers?

Maybe not all engineers are born with the special DNA, and not all people who are born with it turn out to be engineers, but..

There appears to be a genetic link between aptitude for engineering and Autistic Spectrum Disorder, implying in turn some genetic foundation to engineering ability.

See S. Baron-Cohen, P. Bolton, S. Wheelwright, L. Short, G. Mead, A. Smith and V. Scahill, (1998)
Does autism occurs more often in families of physicists, engineers, and mathematicians?
Autism 2:296-301


Scary.

A.

RE: in which country is the great amount of engineers?

There's that, and then there's the list of symptoms for Asperger's Syndrome, related to autism, that to me looks more like a description of simple nerdhood, and we're all aware of the correlation of nerdhood and engineering.  Perhaps it's all part of the same continuum.

Hg

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RE: in which country is the great amount of engineers?

My reference to DNA of engineers was meant to be humorous..but some took it seriously.  smile

Maybe we engineers don't have the humor DNA.

RE: in which country is the great amount of engineers?

The USA has more engiineers than any other nation on earth.

I believe we also have more lawyers than any other nation on earth.

I think we could do with a few less of the latter.

RE: in which country is the great amount of engineers?

Given that the title of the thread says amount, and not number, I think we should consider the total tonnage of engineers per country. For various reasons I suspect the USA will still have the most.

Cheers

Greg Locock

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RE: in which country is the great amount of engineers?

JAE - perhaps structural types don't, but you can rest assured that geotechnical enigneers have the humour DNA!! - at least the ones that came before "code heavy" geoengineering.

RE: in which country is the great amount of engineers?

Tonnage is perhaps an unfair means by which to assess the number of engineers per country as chinese people, for example, tend to be samller then others. A better way would be based upon the number of engineers per population. My bet is on Lichtenstein.

corus

RE: in which country is the great amount of engineers?

Hi ,

I would say Engineers are different from other people in the way they think about problems and their solutions.Good Engineers have vision...

An engineer is better than the other in the way he uses mathematics to solve his problem and a Good Engineer is the one who can do the same thing as another Engineer but at half the price!!!

Sorry but I don't think US have the monopoly of good Enginners!!! sheer numbers don't count !!! ... ... Besides they were mostly all immigrants who came from other areas of the world.

RE: in which country is the great amount of engineers?

Corypad: What happened? That wolfram site totally missed Brunel.

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