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>Would it be wrong to say that the US has lost the engineering skills necessary to build this kind of big projects? Yes, that’s not the issue. The US still has

>Would it be wrong to say that the US has lost the engineering skills necessary to build this kind of big projects? Yes, that’s not the issue. The US still has many of the best engineering schools in the world and projects very rarely fail in the US because engineers screwed up and couldn’t handle it. The problem is that the government has lost the backbone to actually disrupt people’s lives in the ways necessary to do large scale projects. The California rail is not difficult, but it is quagmired in NIMBYism and political trading. The chosen route is not about efficiency or anything engineering related, it’s about scratching the right backs. >The best minds in the US are focused on showing marginally more ads, wall street , and lots of other things that pay very well, but not big engineering works. Because big engineering projects don’t ever get greenlit. There has never been a case where we wanted to build mass infrastructure, got all of the approvals, and then went, “whoops, nobody can engineer this”.

anonyme-honteux 4y ago
I don't doubt that the US can produce good schools and good engineers. Like I said what happened during world war two was unprecedented. But good engineers from good schools won't stay and become great at their work unless they have big infrastructure projects to work on. Also money and prestige. Their colleagues from Japan, France, Germany and Spain have huge infrastructure projects to work on. What's the equivalent of that in the US right now?
- kortilla 4y ago
  >What's the equivalent of that in the US right now? Pick one of those large projects in Japan, France, Germany, or Spain and some big US based company (or international company with a US presence) will have a major piece in it. The top US engineers get to work on major challenging projects all of the time. They are just not taking place in the US.

anonyme-honteux 4y ago

I don't doubt that the US can produce good schools and good engineers. Like I said what happened during world war two was unprecedented. But good engineers from good schools won't stay and become great at their work unless they have big infrastructure projects to work on. Also money and prestige. Their colleagues from Japan, France, Germany and Spain have huge infrastructure projects to work on. What's the equivalent of that in the US right now?

kortilla 4y ago
>What's the equivalent of that in the US right now? Pick one of those large projects in Japan, France, Germany, or Spain and some big US based company (or international company with a US presence) will have a major piece in it. The top US engineers get to work on major challenging projects all of the time. They are just not taking place in the US.