Asia’s second largest manufacturer of earth-moving equipment is advertising in the United States for engineers who will work from their homes to design new higher-level products. “The company requires the services of ace & experienced designers/institutions having expertise in the design of high end dump trucks, bulldozers, excavators and related aggregates to keep pace with global technology trends and to surpass them,” says an advertisement in today’s Wall Street Journal placed by BEML Ltd., a company founded by the government of India in 1964.
BEML is a fast-growing company that apparently wants to take advantage of laid-off engineering personnel in the USA. It says compensation “would not be a limiting factor”. This doesn’t sound good to me. Outsourcing usually goes the route of an American OEM looking to find lower-cost labor to do noncritical technical work in India. So now, a veteran engineer living near Davenport, IA, or Peoria, IL, could conceivably use proprietary IP to help advance a Third World construction company? Sure, we all have a right to work, and use our talents, but is that what’s really going on here?
India doesn’t suffer from a shortage of engineers due to the Indian Institutes of Technology. It does suffer from a lack of experience and know-how.
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