“If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck.” So goes the popular paraphrase of John Whitcomb Riley's classic quotation. But what was very likely true in days of yore is not necessarily the case in the oxymoronic world of virtual reality.

In today’s tightly contested job market, personal recommendations can play a critical role in determining who gets the job offers. What do you do if asked to provide one?

When contemplating professional licensure, the central question for many electrical, computer and software engineers is: How will licensure benefit me?

IEEE member Kristi Brooks is a busy mom, volunteer and electrical engineer. In this month's Five Sites, she shares some of her favorite sites — for both diversion and productivity.

IEEE-USA has developed model legislation to help guide Congress when it takes up educational and employment-based immigration reform.

Two female engineering professors often find that people do a double take when they tell them what they do.

“Don’t follow in my footsteps.” These days, seemingly every conversation about the future of engineering includes an apocryphal story about an engineer who advises his children to find another line of work because engineering has no future. Yet until a recent set of surveys and analyses, we knew little about who stays in engineering, why people leave the field, and what happens to them after they leave.

Reauthorizing the landmark America COMPETES Act will be the top priority this year for the House Science and Technology Committee, according to Chairman Bart Gordon, D-Tenn.

A roundup of news and notable developments in electrical engineering and computer or information technology reported by research universities and government agencies.