Automakers' woes have little impact on engineers--at least for now: foreign investment in the U.S., tiering shake-up may offset losses at GM, Ford.(automotive)

Design News, June, 2005 by Costlow, Terry

John Narney recently returned to the automotive industry after a decade working in the heating-air conditioning industry. He had been job-hunting for nine months with hardly a call for an interview. But things changed when he looked back at an industry he'd left more than a decade ago. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A key factor in his decision to get back into autos is that it is "a field where there will always be work," the MSME says.

While he could only go to a handful of HVAC manufacturers, the auto industry holds myriad opportunities. "People are always going to be making cars in North America; the percentage of the gross domestic product tied to the auto industry is huge," says Narney, who became a senior engineer at Siemens VDO Automotive's...

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