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your career, your life
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Why Haven't I Been Hired
Yet?
When you’re unemployed, you
can feel trapped in an
endless cycle of hopping
online, looking for jobs,
applying electronically… and
repeating the process day in
and day out (all while
hoping for a speedy end to
the entire ordeal). So how
do you break the cycle?
Toastmasters: Becoming a
Better Communicator and
Leader
What makes the difference
between those engineers who
succeed and those who fall
short of their potential?
The answer lies in the “soft
skills” that make
individuals stand apart from
the pack.
Backscatter:
It's Not Just Digital
Today's ECE students might
equate the term “digital
systems” only to modern
electronic digital systems
based on binary integrated
circuits. (So might many
veteran engineers!)
Historically, of course,
digital systems in the
broadest sense included a
variety of items having
information represented in
discrete states.
Software Engineering PE
Examination Development Approved
NCEES recently approved
development of a PE exam for
software engineering.
IEEE-USA will serve as the
lead technical society
sponsoring the examination
with cooperative agreements
from other organizations,
including the IEEE Computer
Society and NSPE.
Disability Insurance: The “Forgotten” Safety Net
When most people talk about
having “enough” insurance,
they’re usually referring to
life insurance. But if your
family relies on your
paycheck to make ends meet,
your loved ones could find
themselves in a worse
financial situation if you
become disabled than if you
were to die.
World Bytes: Turning Down a
Promotion
You've been offered a
promotion. Should you
accept it or turn it down?
It's easy to say “yes”;
knowing the right way to say
“no” can be just as
important to your career.
Op-Ed:
An Engineer's Perspective on
PCAST's H1N1 Influenza
Report
On 24 August, the President’s
Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released its Report to the
President on U.S. Preparations for 2009- H1N1 Influenza. Did PCAST miss opportunities to foster greater
impact by not addressing this issue through the interoperability lens? |
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shaping public policy
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Alternatives for Health Care
Reform
The House of Representatives
is ready to debate their $1
trillion bill after the
August recess, but the
Senate Finance Committee has
not revealed the details of
their $900 billion version
yet. A look at the issues
Congress will be embroiled
in this Fall.
Congress and DOE Focusing Intensified Attention on
Energy-Water Nexus
Congress and the Department
of Energy
are focusing intensified
attention on the
energy-water nexus,
particularly in the context
of efforts to develop
advanced technologies which
promise to substantially
reduce water withdrawals and
consumption by electric
power plants.
IEEE-USA E-Books Adds New GovDocs – Free to Members
Select government
documents and reports are provided through the
IEEE-USA e-book catalog as an information
service to IEEE members. The catalog has been
recently updated to include the three new
titles. |
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STEM
education
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How to Share
Your Love for
Engineering with
the Spongebob
Crowd
No matter how
old you are,
September has a
way of sending
you back in time
to memories of
school. For
Larry Nelson, a
consultant in
microprocessor
design,
September still
prompts him to
go back to
classrooms –
these days as a
professional
engineer who
loves talking to
kids about his
work. |
Top 10 STEM TV
Shows
These 10 shows
demonstrate how
science and
engineering can
be used to solve
problems — and
can be a lot of
fun. |
Ham Radio: A Bridge to the
Wireless World
There is a
direct
relationship
between the
knowledge base
of ham radio and
the science,
math and
geography taught
to our children. |
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intellectual property
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Here's
an Idea, Why not
Patent
It?
A Brief Summary of the
issues and complexities of
Bilski v. Doll, now
pending review before the
United States Supreme
Court. At issue is nothing
less than what is
patentable? |
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U.S. innovation &
competitiveness
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Tech Digest:
September
A roundup of
news and notable
developments in
electrical
engineering and
computer or
information
technology
reported by
research
universities and
government
agencies during
August 2009. |
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A look at the origins of
the glowing puck and the
Yellow Line.
