Fifteen years ago, Computer Science did not exist as an undergraduate major at Caltech. Electrical Engineering was the most well-funded department at the school thanks to a generous donor named Gordon Moore, who founded a little Silicon Valley startup called Intel.

And now it’s 2014:

Despite an expanding use of electronics in products, the number of people working as electrical engineers in U.S. declined by 10.4% last year.

The decline amounted to a loss of 35,000 jobs and increased the unemployment rate for electrical engineers from 3.4% in 2012 to 4.8% last year, an unusually high rate of job losses for this occupation.

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