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By bfwebster on Jun 24, 2008 in Education, Main | 1 Comment
I previously discussed the up-and-down cycle of college enrollment in computer science and related fields. More accurately put, there have been two large peaks in computer science enrollment: one in the mid- to late 1980s (which happens to be when I was teaching CS at Brigham Young University) and another right around the turn of [...]
By bfwebster on May 17, 2008 in Education, Hiring, Main | 1 Comment
Today’s New York Times reports that Japan is “running out of engineers“:
After years of fretting over coming shortages, the country is actually facing a dwindling number of young people entering engineering and technology-related fields.
Universities call it “rikei banare,” or “flight from science.” The decline is growing so drastic that industry has begun advertising campaigns intended [...]
By bfwebster on Mar 5, 2008 in Education, Hiring, Main | 3 Comments
When I gradated with my BS in computer science from Brigham Young University in 1978, we had roughly 120 undergraduate students in the CS program. When I came back to teach in 1985 — just seven years later — there were over 1,000 undergraduate students in the program, and you actually had to apply to [...]