Brain Drain

Catching up on the weekends is difficult and I should have written this ten days ago when I first found the bifold handout in an engineering building on campus. Last night, I heard the term “brain drain” on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” I knew the phrase from the 1960s because of the foreign medical doctors living in our neighborhood near City Hospital (now “Cuyahoga County MetroHealth”). 

Long ago, when I was working for Kawasaki Robotics, one of the company officers said to me that he considered “international people” to be special in themselves, different from the people in their countries of origin.

On the way home last week with the handout in my kit bag it was pretty easy to guess that Hyundai was not the only multinational corporation recruiting at the University of Texas Austin, and that UT is not the only place that those companies are visiting. 

If you had come to America to earn a doctorate in engineering and you were not sure of your future status here, it would make sense to actively arrange your next port-of-call, rather than leaving that to an encounter not of your own planning. 

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