Ms. Begley's e-mail is (or at least was as of 2002) [email protected] From: "Richard Tax" <[email protected] To All: Please help. Sharon Begley, columnist for The Wall Street Journal, has requested support for her investigation into the Engineering Manpower dilemma - Shortage or Surplus. Perhaps some of you can help. Please refer to her request below. Richard Richard F. Tax IEEE, North Jersey Section PACE chair. President American Engineering Association, Inc. Begley, Sharon wrote: >Richard, thank you for your help so far on my story about the engineer >workforce. As we discussed, I am trying to reconcile the claims by some >in business and government that there is now, or soon will be, a >shortage of engineers, with economic and unemployment data showing that >is not the case. To that end, I would like to give examples of engineers >who have been unable to find employment recently. These should be people >who have unimpeachable academic degrees and experience so that >readers/critics cannot say, 'oh, of course he/she can't find a job, look >at >[whatever].' In addition, if you know of engineers who have been >discouraged enough to have changed fields (to sell real estate or >anything else), that would also work for me. Many thanks--- > >Sharon Begley >Science Columnist >The Wall Street Journal >200 Liberty Street >New York, N.Y. 10281 > >212-416-3268