Job Demand Tops Supply in Science

Four experts at the College's sixth career conference last night rapped the theory that jobs in engineering and research are ready for the asking.

Speaking before a Lowell audience, M. M. Boring, personnel manager for General Electric, said that the 41,000 would-be engineers graduating each year will find only 26,000 new openings waiting for them.

"But," Boring promised, "good men will not be walking the streets. They're going to find a job for themselves." Once a man cracks the field, he said, a median salary after 15 years would be as high as $10,000.

Frederick V. Hunt McKay Professor of Applied Physics, claimed his field was "too competitive" for persons lacking an obsession for research.

Boring also cautioned against specializing in a very restricted field and an gesied going into industry immediately after getting an A. R.