High tech in India
Exportation of high tech jobs to India worries Bingaman - 2005-02-07 - New Mexico Business Weekly
Exportation of high tech jobs to India worries Bingaman
Dennis Domrzalski
NMBW Staff
U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-NM, was alarmed as he stared at the computer screen in the research and development center in Bangalore, India. The scientists and technicians were typing in orders and directions to ensure that the power plant they were controlling was operating correctly, efficiently and safely.
Bingaman wasn't concerned that the technicians would type incorrect orders into the computer. He knew that wouldn't happen. What concerned him was that the plant the engineers in Bangalore were operating via computer was in the state of Indiana, and that such high-tech jobs that the U.S. once thought it owned were being outsourced to India.
In fact, during a recent, nine-day fact-finding trip to India, Bingaman learned what many Americans don't know and might not want to hear: That it isn't just low-tech, call center types of jobs that are being outsourced to India and other countries, and that the U.S. might be losing its high-tech competitive edge.
"People who think that the outsourcing of work to India involves just low-end jobs are very confused," Bingaman says. "There is a lot of world-class research going on there in the areas of biotech and information technologies. It surprised me to see the investments that companies are making in India and of the cutting-edge work they are doing there."
Bingaman saw the Indiana power plant being operated from General Electric's John F. Welch Technology Center in Bangalore, GE's first and largest multidisciplinary research and development center outside of the U.S. The facility employs more than 1,600 scientists who work on things like electromagnetic analytics, composite material design, molecular modeling, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and computational fluid dynamics.
Later in the trip, Bingaman visited Intel Corp.'s Intel India Design Center in Bangalore, a 200,000-square-foot research and development facility that employs 900 and includes the most Intel divisions outside of the U.S. Since its inception in 1999, the Design Center has grown quickly because of India's information technology and engineering talent pool, the facility's Web site says.
Exportation of high tech jobs to India worries Bingaman
Dennis Domrzalski
NMBW Staff
U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-NM, was alarmed as he stared at the computer screen in the research and development center in Bangalore, India. The scientists and technicians were typing in orders and directions to ensure that the power plant they were controlling was operating correctly, efficiently and safely.
Bingaman wasn't concerned that the technicians would type incorrect orders into the computer. He knew that wouldn't happen. What concerned him was that the plant the engineers in Bangalore were operating via computer was in the state of Indiana, and that such high-tech jobs that the U.S. once thought it owned were being outsourced to India.
In fact, during a recent, nine-day fact-finding trip to India, Bingaman learned what many Americans don't know and might not want to hear: That it isn't just low-tech, call center types of jobs that are being outsourced to India and other countries, and that the U.S. might be losing its high-tech competitive edge.
"People who think that the outsourcing of work to India involves just low-end jobs are very confused," Bingaman says. "There is a lot of world-class research going on there in the areas of biotech and information technologies. It surprised me to see the investments that companies are making in India and of the cutting-edge work they are doing there."
Bingaman saw the Indiana power plant being operated from General Electric's John F. Welch Technology Center in Bangalore, GE's first and largest multidisciplinary research and development center outside of the U.S. The facility employs more than 1,600 scientists who work on things like electromagnetic analytics, composite material design, molecular modeling, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and computational fluid dynamics.
Later in the trip, Bingaman visited Intel Corp.'s Intel India Design Center in Bangalore, a 200,000-square-foot research and development facility that employs 900 and includes the most Intel divisions outside of the U.S. Since its inception in 1999, the Design Center has grown quickly because of India's information technology and engineering talent pool, the facility's Web site says.
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