Now: Shaping the Future of Microwave Engineering Jobs, Shaping the Future Economy

摘要

The RF/microwave engineering community is relatively safe these days. Demand for skilled RF engineers far exceeds the supply and peoples jobs are safe... for now.rnLooking at the big picture, it is inevitable to realize that the short supply of microwave engineers endangers the existence of those vacant positions and also of those currently staffed. RF engineering and other science jobs can disappear in an offshoring process, as has occurred with production, service and software jobs. Those fields allow cheap labor, R&D and science centers to migrate to wherever technology talent is available. Every microwave engineer job not filled in this country will eventually be filled somewhere else. Every lost engineering job takes away from demand for other positions as well. Unlike the past millennium, the United States is not self-sufficient anymore.