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Automotive Industry Exporting Engineering Jobs

February 15, 2008

NORIHIKO SHIROUZU of the Wall Street Journal wrote a sobering article relating to the export of engineering jobs in the automotive industry.

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In the Feb. 7th piece, Shirouzu digs deeply into the various automakers and the seemingly growing trend of moving design and development engineering jobs to low cost countries such as China, Romania and Vietnam. Historically, these highly skilled jobs have stayed in industrialized nations.

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As the need to pander to a global economy and foreign customers becomes more prevalent, we are likely to see a significantly increasing number of engineering jobs exported out of the country. Not only to cut costs, but to promote the product itself in those countries, as Shirouzu mentions.

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How soon we will reach the critical point where there is relatively little engineering and technical expertise required and/or left in the United States?

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Read Norihiko Shirouzu’s article at the Wall Street Journal HERE.

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Written by bradley · Filed Under Engineering News 

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