Many companies are transferring tasks and jobs traditionally done by American engineers to lower-cost countries. Engineers need to be diligent about tracking these trends so they can adapt to them and ensure they have durable careers. For working engineers, it is ever more important to network with others in their profession and to take charge of managing their careers.

House Science Committee Roundtable Discussion on the Science & Technology Workforce
On June 23, 2005, Science Committee Ranking Member Rep. Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.) and Rep. Jerry Costello (D-Ill.) hosted the first in a series of bipartisan discussions on realities facing the science and technology industry and U.S. workers. Expert panelists from industry and academia addressed challenges regarding the continued loss of science and technology jobs to overseas locations. Read a summary of the meeting, including the remarks delivered by Ron Hira.

An Excerpt from Outsourcing America
Where have so many good jobs gone, and how can we get them back? Read an excerpt from the book Outsourcing America: What's behind Our National Crisis and How We Can Reclaim American Jobs, by Ron Hira and Anil Hira.