Bhatia insists that what he's envisioned is more than just another urban agglomeration populated by low-cost engineers.
The cloud provides a low-cost way for engineers, product developers and even marketing folks to experiment with new ideas and test their feasibility within a short timeframe so that they can quickly move forward with successful ones.
Its engineering is based in Grenoble thanks to its university that attracts talent from around Europe and the US. Grenoble is both multi-cultural and has lower costs than Paris making it a cost-effective place to hire engineers who will be oriented towards collaboration with people of different cultures.
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As the big oil firms have sacked thousands of staff in cost-cutting drives, the independents have recruited geologists and engineers.
According to Makerbot, the most well known in a crop of companies developing low cost 3D printers, the technology is being used by NASA engineers to develop parts for models, including for the Mars Rover, Curiosity.
Vibration testing hasn't changed in 50 years -- and those shake tests may be too rigorous, forcing engineers to over-design everything (read: added cost).
Companies that might have seen only two options a decade ago hiring U.S. engineers or shipping the job to India for a fraction of the cost can now align their needs with the global talent pool more ingeniously.
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The project (Bell Labs declines to disclose its cost) combined the work of physicists, app developers, signal processing experts and video engineers.
Koch plans to unite its petroleum engineers with Purina's scientists to come up with high- quality, lower-cost blends.
Space engineers are keen on extending the internet to space to control spacecraft because of the considerable cost and time savings that can be made.
These warnings confirm what U.S. missile-defense program managers and engineers have known for three decades: You simply can't acquire militarily valuable and cost-effective missile defenses of the U.S. and its allies overseas within the confines of the ABM Treaty.
Engineers were telling the services they could greatly improve Humvee features for about half the estimated cost of a new joint vehicle, and while it might not last as long as a new vehicle, refurbishing the existing systems would eliminate most of the costs and delays associated with developing a new system.
It has ambitions to train 5, 000 ship's engineers and other officers for the world's fleets within the next decade providing low-cost competition for Sri Lankan and Filipino sailors.
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