Career prospects in the field of petroleum engineering are excellent and well-qualified engineers can command high salaries soon after graduating.
Raju figured that the work could be done by well-qualified Indian engineers, but Deere was wary of outsourcing.
Boeing has admitted that the strike has lengthened the time it takes to have engineering processes certified by qualified engineers.
Mr. Date said his biggest challenge was finding, training and keeping qualified engineers.
And it should help quench the never-ending demand for qualified engineers.
They are older, less well qualified blue-collar workers.
So he decided to see whether he could hire qualified engineers and move his operations to Shenzhen.
Silicon Valley has the deepest pool of qualified engineers in the country, because of Stanford and the major technology companies that are based there.
The company's analysts had forecast it would take as long as nine months to find that many qualified engineers in the United States.
The move was to take advantage of the local pool of qualified engineers that currently cannot find work because of the country's economic problems.
There are doubts about whether India can meet the demand for English-speaking technically qualified engineers, and wage pressures are mounting.
