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An Academic Perspective on the Globalization of Engineering--Charles M. Vest
An Academic Perspective on the Globalization of Engineering--Charles M. Vest
Pages 184-190
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If you look topic of offshoring and that everyone else in the room prob- behind those facts and separate science from engineering, ably knows more. So, my purpose today is to provide some you see that the United States continues to lead in science context along with my personal views before you begin your degrees, but not in engineering degrees (Figures 1 and 2)
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Earlier this month, on October 12, 2006, The New we should be graduating. But I do think we have to be very York Times carried a story with the headline "Profit Rises careful about basing decisions on today's marketplace condi- 53% at Infosys, a Top Indian Outsourcing Company" (Rai, tions.
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view is that the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, but Micro- • Of the 120 major chemical plants currently under consoft Windows went up; and one day we woke up and found struction, at least as of about two years ago, one was that $1.5 trillion worth of optical fiber had connected all of in the United States, and 50 were in China. us around the world.
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ally everybody in the United States worked in agriculture, a One indicator of this trend is provided by Robert Lucky, sector that now accounts for an almost immeasurably small who plotted the affiliations of authors of papers published share of our employment. Manufacturing rose but has now in the IEEE Transactions on Communications by percentage declined, being replaced very rapidly by services, particu(Figure 3)
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Companies have to reach young people. IBM, based in the United States, excels at out, grab those people, and somehow bring them together.
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A lot of groups are beginning to model of the research university as we know it. That model work together and think about the best way to educate and was transplanted in the United States with Humboldt rather prepare our engineers for the coming century.
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2005. Framing the Engineering Outsourcing De bate: Placing the United States on a Level Playing Field with China and COSEPUP (Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy)
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