Mechanical engineering most popular discipline.(Industry News)(Brief article)

From: ASHRAE Journal | Date: August 1, 2007 | Copyright information

WASHINGTON -- Bachelor's degrees in mechanical engineering have increased 13% over the past two years with 16,063 awarded in 2005-2006. As a whole, mechanical engineering is the largest engineering discipline and the number of degrees awarded has increased each year for the last five years.

Despite its popularity with males, mechanical engineering has the lowest percentage of women (13.1%) of all disciplines.

"We talked about this at our (recent) annual meeting with men ...

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