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Where Human Rights and Engineering Meet
One thing you learn right away in talking to human rights lawyer Jessica Wyndham, associate director of the Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights, and Law Program at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), is that she very much enjoys what she does for a living. Another thing you learn very quickly is that it matters.
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Corporations have been sending engineering work to offshore vendors or assigned it to overseas divisions for some time. One reason for this was the need for local engineers to enter developing markets and it was claimed they could not find enough skilled engineers at home. They also wanted to speed up product introductions and believed offshoring cuts costs. We’ll learn about these and many other factors in the offshoring movement.
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A look at the different strategies companies are using to keep up. Anecdotes range from how Liberty Brass Turning Co. kept up with Chinese imports to Donnelly Custom Manufacturing Co. in Alexandria, Minn., who deliberately underused equipment so that machines were available to handle rush orders—the strategy worked.
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