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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Engineering
They are talking about this topic: Industry Trends
The quotes below are about this issue:
There is movement away from mechanical and towards electronic controls.
| "As far as the mining industry, the trend is more and more moving from mechanical to electrical components. The components in the machines nowadays—the shovels, the trucks, the drills—they're all electric-drive. Maybe the mechanical program needs to emphasize a little bit more electrical. I know that more of the programs, even the millwright over in [MnSCU college], have introduced an electrical module course in their two-year curriculum. So, they've recognized the fact that a millwright is now going to be dealing with electricity." | Northeast |
| "Originally, we were more electromechanical and not so much embedded controls. Our industry is probably a very slow moving industry. But as everybody starts getting older, and some of these older engineers start retiring, you get the younger guys that want to do things on more of an electrical-basis. So, we're moving away from mechanical to almost entirely digital electronics. So, things need to be programmed more. There needs to be more software. But the older guys would probably say they don't like that because if you've got a lightning strike, that board is down, and if you don't have that board, you can't fix it. If you were an electromechanical, you could fix it. But, I think, long-term, you just have to be more electrical, that's just the way the whole market is going for us." | Northwest |
| "Electrical and mechanical controls, we need them. And the statistics are so surprising because we see a great need that is going to increase in the future, not decrease." | Northwest |
| "Those are some important trends—moving away from mechanical stuff to more electronic controls, and then whether you're engineering the product or operating it. And doing it in ways so that it uses less energy." | Northwest |
| "We anticipate a continued need for electrical mechanics." | Northwest |
| "Our electrical and controls engineers spend a lot of time working with our suppliers and distributors of the controls software, the current technology that's out there." | Southwest |