"The U.S. will start exporting environmental expertise," according to Fortune Magazine, March 21, 2005

The article states that the greatest increase in jobs will be those who "know how to clean up spaceship earth." Environmental engineers will be in demand around the world, but especially in Europe and Asia.

In an article listing the hot careers for the next 10 years, Fortune listed environmental engineering as the top demand with a projected increase in demand of 54%.

Fortune based their analysis on the Bureau of Labor Statistics job growth projections.

Computer engineering is another area of demand, Wireless Applications are described as booming over the next ten years.

In another article, "Top 25 Jobs for 2005," Fast Company, also analyzed the Bureau of Labor Statistics data, coming up with their predictions. They also showed environmental engineers, computer engineers, medical scientists, biochemists, and geoscientists among the top 25 areas of job growth. See the whole article and job growth ranking criteria at link below.

Fast Company Article (Full article available online)

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