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Thursday, November 06, 2003
You auto check this out...
Reading this a.m.'s NY Times, saw where GM is putting off its hybrids until 2007, while Ford plans to introduce its hybrid Escape SUV next year...and of course Toyota and Honda have models on the streets already. Anyway, that led me to doing a little more looking and checking out the Detroit News...If you've never visited this site, do it now, especially their Auto Insider Section. Nice executive reading list with links to other papers, joyrides where readers write about their favorite cars, concept cars and new models.
Tuesday, November 04, 2003
Outsourcing fears
We all have read about software programming jobs moving overseas -- in fact the Boston Globe this week is doing a series about white collar job migration -- http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2003/11/02/as_economy_gains_outsourcing_surges/ and http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2003/11/03/us_workers_see_hard_times/. Probably, the reason most work is being farmed out overseas is salary...In the U.S. a programmer makes upwards of $150/hour, while overseas, it's a few bucks. Estimates are that 10 percent of the high-tech jobs in the U.S. are moving off-shore.
So what's that mean to engineering? I think we're already seeing some design jobs moving overseas...with more to come. Here's an article from MSN - http://www.msnbc.com/news/947478.asp.
Check this white paper out, too -- as far as outsourcing engineering jobs in testimony before Congress http://www.cspo.org/products/lectures/061803.pdf. Be sure to check out the table of companies who are already doing some major outsourcing of engineering work -- like GE -- scary stuff...
Monday, November 03, 2003
Hear engineering
Voices of Innovation offers a two minute sound bite of what it is to be an engineer broadcast on public and some commercial radio stations. But their website at http://voicesofinnovation.org/ has all the past programs, as well as a place to share your story of engineering...and they are timely - several in the last month have dealt with fire engineering. Read the script or listen in MP3. The site is sponsored by the America Association of Engineering Societies.
