• Total Full-Time Undergraduate Enrollment for Electrical Engineering students:
  • Fall 1998: 58,159
  • Fall 1999: 56,969 -> 2% decrease
  • (Source: Engineering & Technology Enrollments, Fall 1999)

Top career issues - US ("EE Engineering Times", 29 October 2001)

1. Work/life balance
2. Salaries
3. Job market/security/unemployment
4. Technical obsolescence
5. Professional ethics
6. Education/retraining