What type of engineering is most susceptible to outsourcing?

[roderick]

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I alway thought that engineers take economics to meet their social
science GEDs as these are the most numerical of the social sciences.

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<p>One thing that should be clear in this and related threads is that an engineer is not an engineer (there are many different varieties of hi tech / stem jobs), and some might be more amenable to outsourcing than others. I was/am the corporate application computer programmer developing and maintaining custom systems to support a corporation’s business’s needs. THis job , along with the other 2,000 related jobs on both the systems development side as well as on the production/operations side of the IT dept was recently outsourced to India. My company, by the way, a F 100 company , is completely in lockstep w/ all the other companies in its fortune 100 class in doing this pit bull of a dynamic called Outsourcing.</p>

<p>While I am 50 yr old computer programmer, a two yr recent grad from UIUC’s comp eng pgm was also in that mix that was let go. AS we know sometimes comp engineers work at Intel in hardware and sometimes as software engineers in business. It has to do where one wants to go to work and live, how much you’d get paid etc. I got my comp sci minor degree from the same college as this recent grad in 1981, but I did not take econ; I took basic comp pgming/OS classes.</p>

<p>My son likes econ a lot. Maybe he’ll educate me on it.</p>

<p>good point about who’s the empire and who’s the colony.</p>

<p>Ok so the trade imbalance is that china is importing more FINISHED goods than we are exporting?</p>

[BCEagle91]

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<p>Ok so the trade imbalance is that china is importing more FINISHED goods than we
are exporting? </p>

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<p>China is exporting more and more finished goods (manufactured). We fortunately export a lot of IP goods.</p>

[roderick]

<p>I was going to ask what are IP goods and a google search turned the followin up. But are copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets a ‘good’ that can be sold or exported? I think I need a clarification on this. But I need a connection to bases of outsourcing, too. :)</p>

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Intellectual property (IP) includes patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. Any
good protected by some form of intellectual property is an “IP-protected” good.
Examples of IP and the corresponding goods that might possibly be IP-protected include
o Patent – pharmaceuticals and electronics,
o Copyright – software, movies, music, and video-games, and
o Trademark – clothing, handbags, watches, and cosmetics.

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