<p>hi,</p>
<p>1st of all, i only want input from U.S engineering student opinions for reply. Thank you for ur understanding. As a current EECS undergrad located in the U.S, i have check department of labor outlook on EE and CE. they both were shown to have no growth or even decline in employment for future prediction. I have search within the EE major forum and seen no one asking a similar question.</p>
<p>The following factors are my main concern:</p>
<p>a. electronics component have becoming increasing lower in cost and more standardized than before. </p>
<p>b. Rampant of outsourcing in design; </p>
<p>c. increasing number of people become familiar in electronics from very early age and DIY hacking of hardware being ubiquitous .(no offence to the DIY community) </p>
<p>d. the possible take over by quantum electronics which will force many new skill to be learn from beginning as EE. </p>
<p>the following are my question:</p>
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<li><p>what do u think the empolyment prospect of EE or more specifically electronics or computer hardware engineering in the U.S will be in the future?</p></li>
<li><p>if u are an EECS or CHE major in the U.S, what is ur plan of dealing with it.</p></li>
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<p>thank you for ur time and ur reply.</p>
<p>a) And also a greatly increased demand. Someone has to work with those components and turn them into a system.</p>
<p>b) Design is probably one of the last thing outsourced. Work that is outsourced is usually easier and requires less creativity. The foreign workers who do the outsourced work are rarely very good engineers.</p>
<p>c) I do not see this having any effect on anything. Very few people are going to learn a lot about hardware on their own.</p>
<p>d) I highly doubt we will see some disruptive technology emerge that will make everything you know become useless. You could dream up such scenarios for ANY major but the reality is it’s just not going to happen.</p>
<p>1) I think EE job prospects will be good in the future. We’re not going to drift away from electronics any time soon. If anything, more electronics will be in more and more things.</p>
<p>2) Nothing.</p>
<p>The lowest-level hardware manufacturing type stuff will be the first to go. But there will be jobs for good engineers… Good jobs.</p>
<p>Even with jobs gone, you can never say that it would be “impossible” to find work. I agree with Purdue on the issue that there will always be design work in the US. The jobs that are/being off-shored are not the types you want anyway.</p>