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Industry Trends in Engineering Offshoring--Vivek Wadhwa
Pages 209-212

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... the dot-com days when it was hard to hire good talent -- espe I started my operations in Russia in 1992, right after the cially from universities like Duke -- I didn't expect students fall of the Iron Curtain. I can tell you stories about how we to ask me what sort of courses they should take to make their hired ex-KGB programmers to reengineer code based on jobs "outsourcing proof." After all, I thought, the fact that skills they had gained from reengineering American sys- these kids had made it into Duke University meant that they tems during the cold war; but that is a different topic.
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From page 210...
... paring four-year degrees in the United States with three- and We learned that the Chinese government created this four-year degrees in China and two-, three-, and four-year situation deliberately. About 8 or 10 years ago, they realized 700,000 600,000 Number of Subbaccalaureate Degrees Number of Bachelor's Degrees 500,000 292,569 Degrees Awarded 400,000 300,000 200,000 84,898 103,000 351,537 100,000 137,437 112,000 0 United States India China Country FIGURE 1  Engineering, computer science, and information technology degrees awarded in 2004.
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From page 211...
... Seventy-five percent said that diplomas who are graduating en masse from Indian and India has a large to adequate supply of well qualified entryChinese universities. I thought they didn't, but the survey level engineers; 59 percent said the United States did; and 54 proved me wrong.
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... We asked companies about the relative advantages of In this debate, we have been focusing on the strengths of engineers from each country. For the United States, advan- our competition and competing on their turf.
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