An engineer managed to get a word in on why Americans have stopped studying STEM.

In STEM will stay stunted until companies stop offshoring:

Companies are sending engineering R&D work overseas. In addition, bio/pharma companies are starting satellite R&D centers in lower-cost countries like India. Indeed, some hospitals have contracted out radiology interpretation, among other tasks, to foreign doctors. Nothing is safe: legal consultants and research houses have also sprung up overseas.

Simmons and the others carping about STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education are crying crocodile tears, lamenting the crisis they have made themselves. Until our students can look ahead and see a future where some MBA-holding pencil-pusher can’t wipe out their job with the stroke of a pen — which would require companies to actually make commitments to their communities and employees in good faith and with real loyalty — the numbers of people studying STEM will diminish.

Imagine if every U.S. engineer wrote a letter to the editor such as this. You know, the people who actually work in the field, speaking truth to power with what is happening in their careers?