Teachers, key contacts, parents and students often request material to encourage students to pursue technical careers. These pages provide material on salaries, industry employment trends and educational requirements to be used to encourage students to  keep in math and science courses and chose technical careers.

• The EWEEK site has a salary survey from the National Society of Professional Engineers, http://www.eweek.org/2002/media/salarysurvey.shtml. Engineering salary growth continues to outpace inflation.
• Employees sweeten the job market with higher salaries:
  http://www.jobweb.com/SalaryInfo/05_summer.htm
  Chemical engineering graduates saw their average salary offer rise to $53,813, up just 1.9 percent from last year at this time. Food, beverage, and tobacco manufacturers, offering an average of $53,907, showed the most interest in these graduates. Computer engineering graduates received an increase of 1.7 percent, to $52,464, Electrical engineering graduates saw their average offer creep up just 1 percent to $51,888, Civil engineering grads saw their average offer rise 3.9 percent to $43,679, and Mechanical engineering grads received an increase of 2.8 percent to $50,236.
• Here's some information on starting salaries for engineers nationwide from a variety of sources http://www.graduatingengineer.com/interview/salaries.html
• The Society of Women Engineers has a lot of graphs and statistics about women in the field at http://www.swe.org/SWE/ProgDev/stat/stathome.html.

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