flacaltenn
Diamond Member
I had just dumped that email out of my inbox. You can imagine my surprise to find RDean making it into a thread. My wife and I are BOTH in that field. She says women don't pick engineering because the buildings at the colleges are always the darkest, grimiest places on campus.. She might have a point.
A fair number of posters mentioned it only takes a couple engineers to develop a product, but thousands to produce it.. That USED to be true.. One of our employment challenges is to think 21st century manufacturing processes where cheap labor is not an advantage. That means more automation, more clever machines, materials development, ect. And you'd be surprised how many engineers are still lurking around the margins of a manufacturing line. Every method of handling, testing, measuring stuff is STILL being "designed and refined". In fact, engineers that don't follow their products out to manufacturing and witness the problems and methods -- are never gonna truely improve their product design skills..
We're gonna need MORE AMERICAN engineers to build 21st century manufacturing. Instead of millions of web page designers (likke in the 90s) --- we're gonna need millions of robot script writers and robot "doctors" to make mass labor markets like China irrelevent..
A fair number of posters mentioned it only takes a couple engineers to develop a product, but thousands to produce it.. That USED to be true.. One of our employment challenges is to think 21st century manufacturing processes where cheap labor is not an advantage. That means more automation, more clever machines, materials development, ect. And you'd be surprised how many engineers are still lurking around the margins of a manufacturing line. Every method of handling, testing, measuring stuff is STILL being "designed and refined". In fact, engineers that don't follow their products out to manufacturing and witness the problems and methods -- are never gonna truely improve their product design skills..
We're gonna need MORE AMERICAN engineers to build 21st century manufacturing. Instead of millions of web page designers (likke in the 90s) --- we're gonna need millions of robot script writers and robot "doctors" to make mass labor markets like China irrelevent..