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your career,
your life
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Develop
Leadership
Skills Through
Volunteering
Leadership
skills include
planning
projects,
managing time,
motivating
individuals,
giving feedback
and building
teams. Many
employers
consider these
skills — often
termed soft
skills —
more important
than experience
or college
education in
defining
successful
business
leaders.
A Dozen Reasons Why You
Should Obtain Your P.E. License
Many engineers
obtain their professional engineer (P.E.)
license because it is a specific job
requirement. Many others choose not to
obtain a P.E. license because it is not a
direct job requirement. Meanwhile, there are
compelling considerations for becoming a
licensed professional engineer that are larger
than the immediate minimal requirements of a
current job.
Determining How
Your Employer
Measures Your
Performance
If you haven't
taken the time
to discuss and
find out what
your manager and
other
upper-level
superiors
consider
important or the
performance
required for a
promotion, you
could be wasting
a lot of time
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U.S.
innovation &
competitiveness
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Can Local Networks
of Experts Help
Boost Diversity in
Science and
Engineering?
According to a
recent interim
report from the
American Association
for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS),
local networks of
experts can
show communities how
to bring more women
and minorities to
careers in science
and engineering.
Engineers’ Roles in
Auto-Safety
Assessments Drawing
National Attention
Mounting reports of
sudden, unintended
vehicle acceleration have generated
national media attention and attracted congressional
scrutiny. One of the questions emerging from this
exposure is the adequacy of the National Highway
Transportation
Safety
Administration's (NHTSA)
technical
capabilities.
Tech Digest: August
A roundup of news
and notable
developments in
electrical
engineering and
computer or
information
technology reported
during late June and
July 2010. |
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thoughts from
the engineer's
desk
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Backscatter: The
“Inconceivable” Consequences
of Failure
If an engineering
project is very large and/or
complex, was costly to
produce and deploy, is
expensive to maintain, and
has been operating
successfully without
failure, does it follow that,
inevitabley, something bad will
happen? In the case of the
BP oil rig disaster, it did.
When
Time Remaining Is Not Time Remaining
Software engineer Ed Joyce
takes a humorous look at the
computer interfaces that
have evolved from a simple flashing cursor into a
maybe-it’s-on/maybe-it’s-off cacophony of video
and audio, touch screens, and voice commands,
among other interactive media. Computer geeks
may
gush giddy over these rich interfaces, but the final products often
leave end users feeling exhausted and
emotionally drained. |
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