Original Article can be read at U.S. engineering education needs hardware focus and is written by George Leopold,  EE Times (04/03/2006 3:04 PM EDT)  

Current U.S. engineering education is strong on software but lacking in hardware, often because teachers lack practical experience in hardware design, an industry executive asserted.

Thanh Tran, hardware productization manager for Texas Instruments Inc.'s Semiconductor Group in Houston, said in an interview here Monday (April 3) that many engineering students he encounters have good software skills.

This is the issue in India as well. VLSI industry in India, is paying more perks to engineers as against their counterpart in software industry.