Engineering Degrees Quotes

If we want to get beyond this whole I'm-cool-because-I-care-about-women thing, what we really need to do is we have to start encouraging women to get engineering degrees in college.

I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.

Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.

I was at a speaking engagement for MIT... and I said, 'The Professor has all sorts of degrees, including one from this very institution [MIT]! And that's why I can make a radio out of a coconut, and not fix a hole in a boat!'

There's a preponderance of scientists and engineers among China's rulers. New President Xi Jinping was trained as a chemical engineer. His predecessor, Hu Jintao, earned a degree in hydraulic engineering. His predecessor, Jiang Zemin, held a degree in electrical engineering.

There's a reasonable amount of traction in college education, particularly engineering, because quite a lot of that is privatized, so there is an incentive to set up new colleges of reasonably high quality.

Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.

Colleges produce more sports therapists than engineers. Perhaps because America is a sporty country: a lot of outdoors.

At present our scheme of education allows of but four leading professions-the law, medicine, civil engineering and teaching. For mechanical, electrical and sanitary engineering comparatively no provision exists. If adequate training is desired in these lines our young men must seek it in other States, where a recognition of this need has found its expression in great technical Institutions