I really want to thank you all! I used a lot of the possibilities suggested and found only a number for Germany, 173,000. I did find numbers of things like graduates, and a lot of negative speculation about same, such as 600,000 in China, and decided to use a factor of 3 times the US numbers for...
I found the Bureau of Labor Statistics data for the number of engineers in the U.S. - 1,512,000 in 2006. I need to find out how many there are world wide, but cannot for the life of me find that statistic in any form. Ideas? Thanks.
I have an "Old School" boss who claims engineers still search the (Thomas) Register. I tried to tell him he's a dinosaur, that we search for products, not lists of companies, but what do I know? I could sure use some supporting comments so I can get this matter off my back. Examples would be...
