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So depending on the source, one finds a shortage of 100,000 to 300,000 workers in Information Technology today -- this is forecast to grow with 1 million more jobs created by industry by year 2004
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So physics and "physical technology" aspects of engineering (e.g. aerospace engineering) could compete with this trend and try to attract good students from this field
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My suggested alternative is to note that IT work typically requires the technical and problem solving skills abilities associated with physics or engineering and often NOT taught in Computer Science
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Thus set up new curricula opportunities within the general IT educational arena that we call Internetics
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IT minor with a basic physics/engineering education
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Engineering/physics/math methods minor within an IT education
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Note IT job opportunities are in applications -- perhaps more so than in "basic systems"
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