It is widely acknowledged that US engineering companies are
attracting more international than homegrown talent. The problem
is that less and less US-born students are going into
engineering-related fields. In fact, they are less inclined to
study mathematics and science in general. This issue has largely
been blamed on our education system. When it was recognized
decades ago that fewer students were continuing in math and
science, many argued that there should have been bigger pushes
to attract them. These same arguments are now being made in
Japan, which is facing a similar dwindling of homegrown
engineering talent.  In a May 17, 2008 New York Times article
titled, "High-Tech Japanese, Running Out of Engineers," Martin
Fackler states, "The decline is growing so drastic that industry
has begun advertising campaigns intended to make engineering
look sexy and cool, and companies are slowly starting to import
foreign workers, or sending jobs to where the engineers are, in
Vietnam and India." As the article note