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Engineering Workforce Dynamics From the Workplace to the Global Economy

Engineering Workforce Dynamics From the Workplace to the Global Economy. Stan Sorscher Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) stans@speea.org Seattle WA. Engineering goes with manufacturing. Engineering goes with manufacturing.

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Engineering Workforce Dynamics From the Workplace to the Global Economy

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  1. Engineering Workforce DynamicsFrom the Workplace to the Global Economy Stan Sorscher Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) stans@speea.org Seattle WA

  2. Engineering goes with manufacturing

  3. Engineering goes with manufacturing

  4. Commodity-like or Performance-driven Commodity-like Performance-driven • Rely on external labor market • Externalize training costs • Modularize production • Cultivate human capital • Knowledge transfer • Coordination Engineering problem-solving culture Supply-chain management

  5. Spectrum of industries Autos Cell phones Hard drives Motion pictures Running shoes Ladies garments Hose clamps Aerospace Performance-driven Commodity-like

  6. Three modularized industries • Motion picture industry • Silicon Valley • Boeing 777 and 787 airplanes

  7. Is aerospace maturing? Source: McMasters and Cummings, 2002

  8. Global products Make-buy diagram For Boeing 777

  9. Engineering workforceas an internal labor market

  10. Workforce is like walking …..

  11. New hires and recalls

  12. Attrition Much worse in computing?

  13. A problem of our own making ….

  14. Transition from education to employment

  15. Families make the bet of a lifetime

  16. Coherent national strategy • Connect work with workers • • National manufacturing strategy • • High-tech immigration aligned with strategy • • Internships, R&D - education to employment • • Mid-career mobility, life-long learning • Official public tracking of the labor market • Employment in field of study at 1 and 5 years • Unemployment rate for new graduates • Acceptance rate for offers by employers • Survey students! Engineering workplace culture -> business model

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