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Is mechanical engineering a dead-end career?

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Is mechanical engineering a dead-end career?

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Stop making sense, aibarr. “Most of the design comes from this side” – true, but they are outsourcing design work too. I saw a piece on auto engineering design being done in Vietnam, for example.

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There will always be a need for mechanical engineers. And those horror numbers like 500k+ engineers coming out of China and 700k+ coming out of India are baseless. Or rather, they are based on a definition of “engineer” that is very different from the definition in the US. Plus, even if they are technically “better”, it doesn’t mean they’ll be able to get jobs in the US. There’s a reason US companies like to hire US engineers, and it’s not just because of convenience. US engineers have been trained according to US practices and procedures, with the technical jargon used in the US industry, and therefore they will fit in much better and be productive more quickly than a foreign engineer who needs to learn all that stuff.