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  • JOB DISINFORMATION FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES (ignoring the devastation of outsourcing)

    02/10/2006 9:53:35 PM PST · by churchillbuff · 485 replies · 4,108+ views
    creators ^ | Feb 9 06 | Paul C Roberts
    On Friday, Feb. 3, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the nonfarm payroll jobs report for January. New York Times reporter Vikas Bajaj wrote an upbeat news story, obviously based on a Labor Department press release rather than any study of the BLS report. If the rosy view of Ethan Harris, chief economist for Lehman Brothers, is typical, Wall Street has no more idea than Bajaj of what the jobs report really says. The export and import-competitive sectors of the U.S. economy have been tanking for a long time. To keep the story manageable, let's just go back to January...
  • U.S. designers still the best (for now), CEOs say

    02/03/2006 5:38:32 AM PST · by ZeitgeistSurfer · 11 replies · 589+ views
    EE Times ^ | 02/03/2006 | Dylan McGrath
    PALO ALTO, Calif. — U.S. chip designers are still the best in the world, though how long they can hold that position as India and China continue to produce hordes of engineers in the next few years remains an open question, according to EDA CEOs participating in a Thursday (Feb. 2) panel discussion here. John Bourgoin, CEO of MIPS Technologies Inc., said U.S. chip designers are unquestionably still the best on the whole, though he added that the degree to which that is true varies by specific applications. But with China now graduating an estimated 700,000 engineers per year, Bourgoin...
  • Engineers Without Borders-USA 2006 EWB-USA International Conference (Houston, TX)

    01/29/2006 10:32:09 PM PST · by anymouse · 4 replies · 297+ views
    Building, Teaching, Learning - One Community at a Time February 16-18, 2006 Rice University, Houston, Texas How can you “be the change” you want to see in the world? Make a difference - help improve the lives of a local community. You will have the opportunity to develop sustainable leadership skills foster relationships with engineering students and professionals, while discovering innovative technical solutions to infrastructure issues in developing countries. Learn how to be an effective agent for change. The Conference is bringing expertise from around the world to open your eyes to new challenges and ideas. Awards will be made...
  • Behind engineer 'shortage': Employers are choosy

    01/18/2006 8:26:15 AM PST · by A. Pole · 175 replies · 3,890+ views
    Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | Wednesday, November 16, 2005 | Sharon Begley
    Many companies say they're facing an increasingly severe shortage of engineers. It's so bad, some executives say, that Congress must act to boost funding for engineering education. Yet unemployed engineers say there's actually a big surplus. "No one I know who has looked at the data with an open mind has been able to find any sign of a current shortage," says demographer Michael Teitelbaum of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. [...] Within two weeks, Mr. Carver and a colleague at the Hudson Highland Group had collected more than 200 resumes. They immediately eliminated just over 100 people who didn't...
  • Arizona aerospace latest industry to face outsourcing (Defense at risk too)

    01/16/2006 1:40:05 PM PST · by jb6 · 24 replies · 515+ views
    MSNBC ^ | Jan. 15, 2006 | Mike Sunnucks
    Aerospace is joining the list of key Arizona industries facing the challenge of foreign outsourcing and offshoring. Several of the state's top sectors have faced heavy foreign competition, leading to manufacturing, information technology and back-office jobs being outsourced or shifted offshore to cheaper labor markets. Now, aerospace faces similar overseas competition. The commercial aerospace sectors in China and India are growing quickly and offer stiff competition for an industry cluster that has been key to Arizona's economic growth. "Aerospace and defense employment in the United States has been drifting down because of wage pressures relative to developing countries. That is...
  • Opera House nominated for World Heritage listing

    01/15/2006 8:03:13 PM PST · by Aussie Dasher · 9 replies · 257+ views
    The Federal and New South Wales Governments have nominated Sydney's Opera House for World Heritage listing. The governments have signed a joint nomination that will be sent to the World Heritage Centre in Paris, pending a decision mid next year. New South Wales Minister for Arts and Environment Bob Debus says if the nomination is successful the Opera House will be the state's first building to join the list. "Our nomination argues that the Sydney Opera House is an outstanding conjunction of architecture and engineering, a turning point in the modern architectural movement, an exceptional engineering feat."
  • In India, Engineering Success

    In India, Engineering Success By Sebastian Mallaby Monday, January 2, 2006; Page A13 The classroom of the future will feature electronic white boards. The teachers of the future will write equations on these boards with electronic pens. And the students of the future won't have to choose between concentrating on the teacher and scribbling the equations into notebooks. They will devote all their energy to listening, then download the equations straight into the laptops they've plugged into their desks. Okay, that isn't quite right. The classroom I'm describing is not some figment of the future. It's the reality I visited...
  • India experiences reverse brain drain

    01/03/2006 8:26:42 PM PST · by jb6 · 42 replies · 1,020+ views
    Monsters and Critics ^ | Dec 26, 2005
    BANGALORE, India (UPI) -- India`s booming economy has set off a reverse brain drain, encouraging talented Indians trained in the West to return home to lucrative executive jobs. These jobs are being offered by Western companies setting up operations in India and letting their Indian employees manage them. Top Indian companies also are contributing to the reverse brain drain with offers of attractive jobs. No where in India is this trend more evident than in Bangalore, home of the country`s information technology industry, which triggered explosive growth in recent years. The gated community of Palm Meadows in Bangalore`s Whitefield suburbs,...
  • Manufacturing Trend: Outsourcing New Product Development (slow suicide of American industry)

    01/03/2006 8:18:08 PM PST · by jb6 · 60 replies · 986+ views
    Industry Week ^ | Jan. 3, 2006
    Jan. 3, 2006 -- Currently 29% of U.S. manufacturing companies are outsourcing part of their new product development process, with 41% reporting that they are evaluating outsourcing options within the next 12-24 months. According to a recent survey by Boston, Ma.-based AMR Research Outlook authored by Lance Travis and David O'Brien, these outsourced services include not only the low-value activities that many would expect, but also encompass the complete spectrum of product engineering. Software-related activities are growing the fastest, but mechanical design and engineering analysis are also showing strong growth. One reason for the growth of these outsourcing activities is...
  • Corps never pursued design doubts (NOLA)

    12/30/2005 7:03:06 PM PST · by T-Bird45 · 5 replies · 653+ views
    The NO Times-Picayune ^ | 12/30/05 | Bob Marshall
    The engineering mistakes that led to the canal levee failures that flooded most of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina were found and then dismissed in the Army Corps of Engineers' design review process in 1990, an investigative team reviewing the failures says. Documents, obtained by The Times-Picayune and provided to forensic engineers studying the levee breaches, show project engineers made a critical mistake in assessing soil strengths on the 17th Avenue Canal project, said Robert Bea, a University of California-Berkeley professor who is a member of the National Science Foundation team.
  • "Rising Above the Gathering Storm" - map to maintain US sci/tech/economic global leadership

    12/27/2005 10:31:17 AM PST · by cogitator · 145 replies · 1,870+ views
    Physics Today ^ | December 2005 | Jim Dawson
    (highlights are mine) 'Gathering Storm' Report Urges Strong Federal Action to Save US Science and Technology LeadershipA National Academy of Sciences study warns that without strong steps to improve federal support for science and technology, the quality of life in the US is threatened. For several years the reports have been stacking up in offices throughout Washington, DC. One is by the Council on Competitiveness, another is by the Electronic Industries Alliance, and still another is by the Business Roundtable. There are more than a dozen similar reports, all carrying the same basic message: The US is losing its competitive...
  • Does the US face an engineering gap?

    12/20/2005 2:01:37 PM PST · by Sonny M · 99 replies · 1,693+ views
    The Christian Science Monitor ^ | December 20, 2005 | Mark Clayton
    If China graduates more than eight times the number of engineers that the United States does, is it thrashing America in the technology race? That's what many scientists and politicians are suggesting in the wake of an October report by the highly regarded National Academies. Its numbers are startling: China adds 600,000 new engineers a year; the US, only 70,000. Even India, with 350,000 new engineers a year, is outdoing the US, the study suggests. But that gloomy assessment depends on how one defines engineers: Those with at least four years of college training? Or do their ranks include two-year...
  • In computer science, a growing gender gap

    12/18/2005 7:00:11 AM PST · by A. Pole · 91 replies · 1,843+ views
    The Boston Globe ^ | December 18, 2005 | Marcella Bombardieri
    [...] Today, Souvaine chairs the Tufts University computer science department, which has more female professors than male. But few younger women have followed in her generation's footsteps. Next spring, when 22 computer science graduates accept their Tufts diplomas, only four will be women. Born in contemporary times, free of the male-dominated legacy common to other sciences and engineering, computer science could have become a model for gender equality. [...] When Tara Espiritu arrived at Tufts, she was the rare young woman planning to become a computer scientist.[...]The same men always spoke up, often to raise some technical point that meant...
  • Energy industry's biggest shortage? Future executives.

    12/15/2005 2:49:46 PM PST · by Sonny M · 44 replies · 1,302+ views
    The Christian Science Monitor ^ | December 13, 2005 | Kris Axtman
    HOUSTON - After only a year at CenterPoint Energy, Shelley Daniel has big plans for her career. In 20 years, she sees herself in the company's executive management ranks; by the time she retires, CEO. This recent college grad, in other words, is exactly what the energy industry is looking for - not just because she's highly motivated, but because she wants to remain in the business. For years, energy analysts have been warning that their industry will run out of employees faster than it runs out of oil or gas. By some estimates, half the workforce will retire in...
  • Clinton wants more women and minorities to study sciences [NEA]

    12/09/2005 8:43:26 PM PST · by ncountylee · 53 replies · 678+ views
    AP via WCAX ^ | December 9, 2005
    WASHINGTON Former President Bill Clinton says more women and minorities must be encouraged to study math and engineering in order to fill the dwindling ranks of scientists. Clinton spoke to the National Education Association about the growing concern among scientists and universities that tougher immigration requirements since Nine-Eleven make it harder for the country to attract brain power from overseas. As he puts it, "We may have kept a few bombs out of our country, but we also kept thousands and thousands of brains out." He says the way to boost U-S engineering and science is to focus on American...
  • Science Grads, Where Are You? (Intel chief bemoans US science edu)

    12/05/2005 7:01:55 PM PST · by voletti · 278 replies · 3,293+ views
    Business Week ^ | 12/5 | Business Week
    Intel Chairman Craig Barrett urges businesses to get involved in American education -- for their own sakes as well as the nation's. One of the highlights of my year each spring is getting to meet the 40 finalists in the Intel Science Talent Search (Intel STS) competition. Spending time with these high school seniors, I can't help but feel optimistic about the future of American ingenuity. Some of them may win Nobel prizes, Fields Medals, National Medals of Science, and MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grants." They may be teenagers, but the brilliance of their work makes my own PhD dissertation look...
  • Are We Lacking Engineers? Or Are Engineers Lacking? (Does It Matter?)

    11/22/2005 10:09:59 AM PST · by fishtank · 101 replies · 2,119+ views
    November 22, 2005 Are We Lacking Engineers? Or Are Engineers Lacking? (Does It Matter?) By David R. Butcher Many United States companies say they are facing an alarmingly growing trend; that is, a severe shortage of engineers. Contrary to this belief, however, many others say there is actually an engineer surplus. Seriously, what is going on?!? Theory I: With a shrinking number of employed local talent in engineering fields, the United States is lacking engineers. Theory II: Theory I is stupid. There are too many engineers, but hirers are overly nitpicky in their choosing. And so, there is a great...
  • Are You Earning What You're Worth? (Engineering Jobs and Offshoring)

    10/25/2005 10:49:43 AM PDT · by Dat Mon · 169 replies · 3,235+ views
    Electronic Desing Online ^ | Oct 20,2005 | Jay McSherry
    As a whole, the engineering profession in the U.S. remains in a state of flux as globalization continues to move jobs offshore. For some, that means loss of work and flat wages. For others, it means new opportunities and higher income. According to the latest data compiled by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the number of employed electrical and electronicsengineers shrank by 101,000 from 444,000 in 2000 to 343,000 last year, a decrease of nearly 23%. Computer programmers took a slightly bigger hit during the period with a drop of 181,000 jobs, or more than...
  • Engineering's soft side

    10/03/2005 4:17:30 PM PDT · by decimon · 45 replies · 825+ views
    Denver Post ^ | 09/30/2005 | Jennifer Brown
    Golden - Lauren Cooper isn't the kind of engineering student who views the world in terms of steel and cable, equations and oil wells. She sees Third World villages that need clean water, American Indian reservations without enough housing and South American communities with no electricity. Cooper is one of about 20 students at the Colorado School of Mines enrolled in a new humanitarian engineering minor, thought to be the first undergraduate program of its kind at an engineering college in the United States. The program and a similar graduate one at the University of Colorado at Boulder are at...
  • Afghan Army Builds on Engineering Skills

    09/29/2005 5:33:22 PM PDT · by SandRat · 3 replies · 270+ views
    Defend America News ^ | Sep 29, 2005 | Capt. Cenethea Harraway
    Two Afghan National Army engineer soldiers demonstrate their new skills as one operates an Italian-made bulldozer and the other gives hand signals. The demonstration was a part of the Afghan National Army engineer training course graduation ceremony. Office of Security Cooperation-Afghanistan photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Victoria Meyer Afghan Army Builds on Engineering Skills The training covered heavy engineer machinery operation, force protection, and natural disaster and relief operations. By Army Capt. Cenethea Harraway Office of Security Cooperation-Afghanistan KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 29, 2005 -- The Afghan National Army recently graduated 26 engineers from a six-week training course...