American engineering schools with State funding filled with Chinese spies on F1 student visas
Harish Baliga
Jul. 16, 2007

It was interesting to visit some of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering schools run by the State Universities in America. When you see the faculty list you do not understand what is going on, but when you visit and roam around the departments, you get the feeling.

It is not restricted to just Mechanical Engineering but is common is all branches of Engineering. The graduate studies (MS and PhD) in these engineering schools are the breeding ground of foreign agents, especially from China. The Chinese Government targets the State Universities because it is easier to get admission in these schools than the private schools and get a potential spy educated in US who eventually can steal secrets from US corporations. Guess who pays the tuition for these Chinese spies – the American taxpayers. Think about it – the State Government in America pays for training a Chinese agent!

FBI has recently listed 'students and educators'' as one of the favorite ''cover-ups'' used by foreign agents. That's not all. The FBI, in its website, has put up a list of ''collection strategies'' that agents use to get their hands on US technology.

The professors in these engineering schools depend on Chinese talents to do the tedious research. They feel comfortable in the fact that these Chinese students do not have a lot of mastery over English language and never question the validity of a research method. But little do they know what these Chinese students are up to, and how they are destroying the defense infrastructure of America.

You try to talk to the Graduate Directors in these departments and you will feel they do not want you around. They like to see more Chinese students who will obey the laws set forth by the faculty.

The entrance procedure to the graduate schools in the engineering schools are set to what the Chinese students can do best. They do not test engineering skills. They do not test the verbal skills in the Graduate Record Exam (GRE). All that is needed is 725 or 75 percentile ranking in quantitative section of the GRE. The quantitative section of the GRE requires only tenth grade mathematics.

What the Chinese Government is doing is simple. They recruit spies in their own engineering schools. They train these spies in English so that they can pass TOEFL (test of English as a Foreign language) and then make them apply to the American State University Engineering Schools for graduate studies. The graduate directors in these engineering schools are eager to provide admission and stipend to these Chinese foreign students. The faulty wants these students to perform on the research that will be published in journals and presented in conferences. That makes the schools look good and the faculty look good.

Unfortunately, these engineering schools do not care for American national interests, although they get their funding from the American taxpayers. Harboring spies that will one day build Chinese missiles and aerospace weaponry to threaten United States is not very patriotic.

Minimally, the Homeland Security Department must monitor these foreign students closely in the US. Before issuing any F1 visa a proper background check is needed. Nothing will stop China from sending spies to US in F1 visa to engineering schools and get them trained and educated with American taxpayers’ money.

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