The federal government should create a multiagency advanced manufacturing initiative to help US industry regain its competitiveness, says a new report by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). The program should be funded at $500 million during the first year, and increase to $1 billion by the fourth year.
"We were quite shocked to see how quickly [manufacturing] jobs have disappeared with globalization," said Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google who cochaired the PCAST subcommittee that wrote the report. Without government intervention, he said, job losses "will continue apace." During a 19 May presentation of the report's major findings and recommendations, PCAST cochair Eric Lander, an MIT biologist, observed that the US trade deficit in advanced technology manufactured products has increased from $17 billion in 2003 to $81 billion in 2010. Prior to 2000, the US had always run a trade surplus in those goods.
Mentioned in this article: SEMATECH, a government-industry consortium started in Austin, Texas - where I moved from - now located in New York (where I moved to). I don't work for SEMATECH, but I know engineers and scientists that did. Through Silicon Vias, from Intel (pictured above) have spread through the industry, and they are an active participant of this knowledge sharing effort. TSV manufacturing allows companies to get around bandwidth issues as demands for our electronics to move faster (meaning smaller, denser), do more apps, etc.
I strongly support this initiative: we cannot continue acquiescing our manufacturing to "the global market" with shrugged shoulders. This will rightly refocus education towards the goals of preparing our kids to compete on a world scale; continuous replacement of an eventual aging workforce and paying into the retirement that workforce deserves.
So that I'm not accused of any "tech-ed bias": firms employ all kinds of workers, tech and non-tech, which is a good thing because engineers and scientists make awful HR representatives: think Catbert, the evil HR director, and probably just as bad Administrative Assistants!
Just let one plan your office party...you'll see...
For your own sakes, leave her/him in the lab where they can't do too much social damage!
Physics Today: Obama's science advisers call for new initiative to spur advanced manufacturing in US
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"We were quite shocked to see how quickly [manufacturing] jobs have disappeared with globalization," said Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google who cochaired the PCAST subcommittee that wrote the report. Without government intervention, he said, job losses "will continue apace." During a 19 May presentation of the report's major findings and recommendations, PCAST cochair Eric Lander, an MIT biologist, observed that the US trade deficit in advanced technology manufactured products has increased from $17 billion in 2003 to $81 billion in 2010. Prior to 2000, the US had always run a trade surplus in those goods.
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Mentioned in this article: SEMATECH, a government-industry consortium started in Austin, Texas - where I moved from - now located in New York (where I moved to). I don't work for SEMATECH, but I know engineers and scientists that did. Through Silicon Vias, from Intel (pictured above) have spread through the industry, and they are an active participant of this knowledge sharing effort. TSV manufacturing allows companies to get around bandwidth issues as demands for our electronics to move faster (meaning smaller, denser), do more apps, etc.
I strongly support this initiative: we cannot continue acquiescing our manufacturing to "the global market" with shrugged shoulders. This will rightly refocus education towards the goals of preparing our kids to compete on a world scale; continuous replacement of an eventual aging workforce and paying into the retirement that workforce deserves.
So that I'm not accused of any "tech-ed bias": firms employ all kinds of workers, tech and non-tech, which is a good thing because engineers and scientists make awful HR representatives: think Catbert, the evil HR director, and probably just as bad Administrative Assistants!
Just let one plan your office party...you'll see...
For your own sakes, leave her/him in the lab where they can't do too much social damage!
Physics Today: Obama's science advisers call for new initiative to spur advanced manufacturing in US
Related links
I-Micro News: Kionix's big plans for the future
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