Intellectual Property for Engineers
Are you protecting your intellectual capital? A primer on the most common types of intellectual property: trademarks, trade dress, trade secrets, copyrights and patents.

How Can You Become An Innovator? Look to the Stars for Answers
For more than a century, science-fiction authors have played a major role in helping to shape technology innovations. What can we learn from writers of science fiction that will allow us to be more innovative in the real world?

Book Review: Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands: Latin America
Attitudes and values differ around the globe, and an unintentional mistake can not only reflect badly on you, but could also submarine your business deals abroad. Terry Malkinson reviews Terry Morrison and Wayne Conway's cultural guide to Latin America.

Burgeoning RFID Applications
RFID has been a rapidly-adopted technology, largely on the basis of its potential for saving costs and improving productivity in distribution and consumer transactions. The market is estimated at $5 billion now, growing to over $25 billion by 2017.

Solar Energy – An Alternative Energy Source
With a global push to find viable alternatives to coveted — and finite — fossil fuel reserves, renewable and sustainable resources, such as solar energy, are enjoying a resurgence of interest from the engineering and political communities.

Transport Policy Options for an Aging Population
The nation's elderly are wealthier, healthier and more numerous than ever before. However, the positive population and financial trends among the elderly population are contrasted by negative trends in the their transportation options.

Plug-In-Hybrid Accelerating Progress Symposium E-Book
Transcripts from the Plug-in-Hybrid Accelerating Progress Symposium (Vol. 1) is now available as IEEE-USA’s latest e-book.

Opinion: The Jolly Roger of Digital Television
Perhaps the most troubling aspect of the Broadcast Flag regulation — beyond the MPAA’s influence, the disregard for fair use, and muzzled innovations — was the way the FCC overreached its authority. Despite its repeal, the regulation has had long-lasting consequences.

Washington Technology Digest
A recap of news and notable developments in electrical engineering and computer or information technology emerging from the federal government during April-May 2008.