Outsourcing-resilient ECE curriculum

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  • 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.
TitleOutsourcing-resilient ECE curriculum
CreatorJouny, Ismail
PublisherASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Proceedings
Academic DepartmentElectrical & Computer Engineering
DivisionEngineering
OrganizationLafayette College
Date Issued2007
Date Available2015-05-22T20:38:23Z
TypeArticle
LanguageEnglish
Bibliographic CitationJouny, I. (2007) "Outsourcing-resilient ECE curriculum." ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Proceedings. Paper 96.
Standard IdentifierHandle 10385/1951
Permalinkhttp://hdl.handle.net/10385/1951
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