Biomedical engineering is the new wave of outsourcing from India

[OhioChick]

Nov. 10, 2007

Many Mechanical Engineering infrastructures are getting retooled in America to serve the biomedical engineering sector. As the baby boomers age in America, the demographic shift is causing a massive demand for better medical attention.

The baby boomers are flushed with cash. The research grant in biomedical engineering is astronomical in size. The opportunity resembles IT sector in 1980s.

The next wave of outsourcing will come from the biomedical engineering areas. The cardiovascular engineering, fluid mechanics, artificial self contained hearts, artificial optic nerves and brain cells are the name of the game in the next several years.

Can India catch up and provide the necessary support mechanism in the form outsourcing services that mainstream America will not like to perform?

Some say, India will exceed the expectations. In IT, Indian software engineers have performed superbly in performing reengineering of legacy systems that the western software engineers preferred not to work on. The same can follow in biomedical engineering.

http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/18665.asp

[Deja Q]

1. Cool. An opportunity. Quick, try to get a big loan, get educated,

and then watch everything go out the door. Again.

Kinda hard to get a loan these days, isn't it...

And "Western engineers preferred not to work on" - that sounds suspicious, to say the least. After all, if Windows Vista is an example of such...

[OhioChick]

2. .....

"After all, if Windows Vista is an example of such..."

:rofl:

[Deja Q]

5. Well it's the truth, isn't it?

:D

I mean, they are not going to kill their cash cow (no pun intended) by making "Windows Genuine Advantage" work, now are they? (So many people have complained so many problems about it NOT working... plus how one updated video driver could be the sole impetus for the computer to be locked into restricted mode... good grief.)

[ChromeFoundry]

3. No Job is Safe. n/t

[Deja Q]

4. And then some people wondering why people aren't signing up in colleges,

and subsequently blaming them, the "Millennial generation" as they are, for not wanting to do anything. Well duh. Everybody's raised on the belief money (and return on investment) is an incentive. Take away the incentive and who'd do piddling squat as a result?!

[Skittles]

6. India software engineers performed suberbly?

not from what I have seen - and it's not that "western engineers preferred on to work (on them)" - they were UNABLE to because their JOBS GOT PIMPED OFF TO THE LOWEST BIDDERS

[Deja Q]

7. Agreed. Wholly.

K&R