U.S. News & Education – Christopher J. Gearon
“Job prospects for engineers “are really good, especially for young ones,” says Lawrence Jacobson, executive director of the National Society of Professional Engineers in Alexandria, Va. He and other industry watchers see demand across the board, especially in electrical, biomedical, aerospace, computer, automotive, environmental, mechanical, and petroleum engineering. Salaries are healthy, too. Narvekar will be making close to $80,000 (plus sign-on bonus and company shares) at ARM Inc. in Austin, Texas, working on memory design for processors that store data on mobile phones, servers, and other high-speed devices.”(more)