Overall Globalisation Climate

Industrialisation from West, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, = more products, more technology

Electronic communication, icts = how information are transfer and speed of transfer

Society and population and climate change = energy usage

Rise and fall of economics dominance = like china and usa changes the pattern of fundings,

supports, technology usage, trade barriers, tariffs, TPP, FTA etc

What does globalisation do to engineers?

i) Global competition involving both price and quality of goods and services.

(ii) Trade and investment liberalization policies as manifested in formalization of freer trade
through the WTO and broadening of areas of trade negotiations (e.g. into services). Related
features include economic reforms and new export oriented policies.

(iii) Loss of national sovereignty as manifested in the changing role of the nation state which is
becoming less autonomous as economic policies become increasingly influenced by events
outside the country. The policy autonomy of governments is being reduced by rapid cross
border flow of information and global integration of financial markets.

(iv) Globalization has enhanced labour mobility especially of professionals and skilled labour.
Globalization has been associated with increasing use of skilled labour which has influenced
training and skill acquisition to meet the requirements of global competition. In the industrial
countries, particularly the labour shortage economies labour movement has been encouraged
especially highly skilled migrants –e.g., medical personnel, engineers, scientists, etc.
Globalization has also made it possible to make use of highly skilled professionals where they
are without involving physical movement. This option has been made possible by the
development of ICTs. The increased application of technology has increased demand for lower
cost professional services without requiring them to migrate physically.

The capacity to of engineers to compete regionally and globally need to be built and developed
on a continuous basis. This will entail identifying areas of strength, capacity gaps and raising
levels of productivity and competitiveness in those areas. Building the capacity to compete will
have to begin with the exercise of taking stock of existing capacities that are needed to play an
appropriate role in the national, regional and global economy.

(v)Four aspects of capacity building engineers can be envisaged:

(1) The need to create new capacities to cope with the emerging challenges of globalization.

(2) The need to ensure that conditions are put in place for utilizing more effectively existing
capacities of engineers.

(3) Ensuring that created engineers capacities are retained and leakages through brain drain are
minimized by putting in place a conducive environment for creativity and innovations to be
promoted.

(4) Globalization comes with labour mobility to engineers who will flexibly more to other
countries have the challenge of maintaining contacts and forging strategic alliances with
engineers in other countries

Biggest challenges

Forefront to build infrastructure to accommodate globalisation

Increase productivity.

Automation, efficiency

Meaning Faster, better, cheaper

Ability to use and design with various products and techniqes

Information transfer

Greater mobilisation, moving from home ground to other countries

Contracting internationally

Global competition

Competition from other talented and more capable engineers

Both in design and construction

Multilingual,

Social responsibility

Green issues, greener products

Environmental concerns, reducing carbon footprints

Conservation of energy, cleaner water

Sustainable development