The US is ranked first in engineering

ScienceWatch reports that the rankings of the Top 20 Countries in Engineering, as determined by citation counts within Thompson-Reuters-indexed journals, have been released, and at present, the US is ranked number 1. In their words, the ranking lists "the top 20 countries which, as of the latest bimonthly update of Essential Science IndicatorsSM, attracted the highest total citations to their papers published in Thomson Reuters-indexed journals of Engineering over an 11-year period, (1998-December 31, 2008). These countries are of a pool of 96 countries comprising the top 50% ranked by total citation count in this field."

The full list:
1 USA
2 JAPAN
3 GERMANY
4 ENGLAND
5 PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA
6 FRANCE
7 CANADA
8 ITALY
9 TAIWAN
10 SOUTH KOREA
11 SPAIN
12 AUSTRALIA
13 NETHERLANDS
14 INDIA
15 SWITZERLAND
16 RUSSIA
17 SWEDEN
18 BELGIUM
19 SINGAPORE
20 TURKEY