Sending Jobs Overseas: The Cost to America’s Economy and Working Families

[Excerpt] This report was created by Working America and the AFL-CIO as a companion piece to Work­ing America’s Job Tracker, a ZIP code –searchable database of jobs exported (as well as Occupational Safety and Health Act violations and other work­place issues). Users can search their area for com­panies that have sent jobs overseas. Though Job Tracker is one of the largest publicly available, fully searchable records of the extent and specifics of outsourcing, it only reveals the tip of the iceberg. This report and Job Tracker contextualize each other—Job Tracker by mapping specific job losses due to outsourcing, the report by taking a broad view of the national-level numbers that are avail­able and offering case studies of key industries

The teaching of aerospace vehicle design at Cranfield University with particular reference to the group design project

Over the years, the aircraft design course at Cranfield has evolved into the postgraduatemaster's programme in aerospace vehicle design that we have today. One of the unique featuresof the course is the extensive group design project, which has played a fundamental part inaircraft design education right from 1948 up to the current day. The success of the course, andthe student experience, depends on the success of the group design project. The philosophy ofthe role of the group design project in the teaching of aircraft design is discussed in detail in thispaper. Examples are presented of recent subject aircraft along with some novel features ofthese designs

Towards standardisation of no fault found taxonomy

There is a phenomenon which exists in complex engineered systems, most notably those which are electrical or electronic which is the inability to diagnose faults reported during operation. This includes difficulties in detecting the same reported symptoms with standard testing, the inability to correctly localise the suspected fault and the failure to diagnose the problem which has resulted in maintenance work. However an inconsistent terminology is used in connection with this phenomenon within both scientific communities and industry. It has become evident that ambiguity, misuse and misunderstanding have directly compounded the issue. The purpose of this paper is to work towards standardisation of the taxonomy surrounding the phenomena popularly termed No Fault Found, Retest Okay, Cannot Duplicate or Fault Not Found amongst many others. This includes discussion on how consistent terminology is essential to the experts within organisation committees and, to the larger group of users, who do not have specialised knowledge of the field

NASA/DOD Aerospace Knowledge Diffusion Research Project. Paper 26: The relationship between technology policy and scientific and technical information within the US and Japanese aerospace industries

Government technology policy has nurtured the growth of the aerospace industry which is vital to both the U.S. and Japanese economies. Japanese technology policy differs significantly from U.S. technology policy, however, particularly with respect to the production, transfer, and use of scientific and technical information (STI). In this paper, we discuss the unique position of the aerospace industry in the U.S. and Japan, U.S. and Japanese aerospace policy, and the role of STI in the process of aerospace innovation. The information-seeking behaviors of U.S. and Japanese aerospace engineers and scientists are compared. The authors advocate the development of innovation-adoption technology and STI policy goals for U.S. aerospace and the inclusion of an aerospace knowledge diffusion transfer system with an 'active' component for scanning and acquiring foreign aerospace technology and STI