Outsourcing-resilient ECE curriculum
Jouny, Ismail
This paper addresses the issue of outsourcing of electrical and computer engineering
needs, and its impact on the future of ECE engineering education in the United States.
The paper highlights areas of ECE that has seen significant outsourcing activities and
future trends in outsourcing of ECE expertise. The intent is to offer suggestions on how
to revise the ECE curriculum to; 1) help future graduating ECE engineers work in a
global environment, and 2) strengthen areas of ECE that are not likely to be outsourced,
and to minimize focus of areas of the ECE discipline that are most likely to be
outsourced. These recommendations will in no way weaken the fundamental requirement
for understanding basic ECE principles, but are merely an attempt to structure the ECE
curriculum to be more resilient to outsourcing, so that ECE graduates in the United States
have expertise that are not easily outsourced and can compete in a global environment.
Research of what’s being currently outsourced clearly identifies the need for US
engineering curricular innovation to produce ECE graduates that can work in an
environment that may rely on outsourcing a portion of its operations, and also make the
knowledge base of these graduates stronger in areas that are not likely to be outsourced,
or perhaps should not be outsourced for security reasons or for physical and logistical
constraints.
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