Until recently Universities across America and abroad are reporting drops in enrollment for Computer Science majors. The US has struggled with improving K-12 Math and Science programs, and generating interest in youth.For years parents have been telling their children to change their majors and stay away from computer science and related fields.
To top it all off, company's are churning and changing by the affects of off-shoring programming, development, and engineering jobs (among others). Veteran engineers and developers are losing their jobs right here, right now, in this great country! I know, I'm very close to it... in fact, right in the middle of it.
For me the following news is very welcoming and instills hope and excitement. It seems TCS, one of the largest Indian consulting companies in the world is made Ohio the home of its largest campus yet.
In summary one of the largest Off shoring sources in the world, is building a campus in Ohio and plans to hire 1,000 local professionals, in a state where not only manufacturing jobs are struggling, but software development jobs are fleeing.
These two articles explain it better than I could...
TCS comes to Ohio article I
TCS comes to Ohio article II
There are now reports of increased enrollment in comp-sci like programs in some Universities. I'm seeing the positive affects of the academic community, non-profit organizations and some private businesses who are fighting to keep high tech jobs here and improve education in their neighborhoods. TCS coming to Ohio (my home state) is great news to me.
Is this a sign of better times to come?
What can engineers and developers do to help keep hope alive? Is there anything we can do at all?
Whats your take?
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