Career Focus: What Makes a Good STEM Mentor?
05/09/2013 |
| Many people succeed without mentors, but for others, mentorship can play an important role not just in career success but also in how satisfied they are in their profession. The effects of mentorship are far-reaching, and it's not only the people being mentored who benefit. |
Cogent Communicator: The Urge to Converge
05/09/2013 |
| When a designer starts on a new product or an artist begins a new painting, they are doing the same thing: diverging. It's an essential part of the creative process. So how can you avoid the urge to forego this part of process in your own work? |
Backscatter: Silicon Valley: After Hours
05/09/2013 |
| Don Christiansen recalls the Silicon Valley culture of the 1960s, when Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore launched Fairchild Semiconductor, which itself spawned dozens of spinoffs. |
Hidden Job Market Secrets: Be the Employer’s First Choice Candidate
05/09/2013 |
| Old job search methods have been superseded by social networking and employee connections as more effective techniques for landing a new job. |
IEEE-USA Government Fellowship Program Expands to Include USAID
05/09/2013 |
| Beginning in 2014-2015, a U.S. member will serve as a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Engineering and International Development Fellow. Find out how to apply. |
IEEE-USA Opposes H-1B Visa Increases, Agrees with Companies on Green Cards
05/09/2013 |
| A leading expert on high-skill immigration and a Microsoft executive testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on 22 April in favor of high-skill immigration reform legislation IEEE-USA supports. |
Holdren Responds to Proposals to Limit Federal Support for Research
05/09/2013 |
| In remarks prepared for the AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy, OSTP Director John Holdren responded to congressional concerns about federal funding for social science research and proposed legislation impacting NSF's grant making process. |
Congress Looks Big Data and Next Generation Computing Challenges
05/09/2013 |
| On 24 April, the House Science Subcommittees on Research and Technology held a joint hearing on next generation computing and big data analytics to explore how advances in information technology and data analytics are spurring innovation. |
AAAS Analysis Shows Uncertain Future for Federal Research and Development Spending
05/09/2013 |
| Spending cuts forced by sequestration, drove federal research spending for Fiscal Year 2013 down to 0.8 percent of GDP—the lowest level seen in 40 years. If sequestration continues, it could drop below 0.8 percent for the first time in a very long time. |
Engineering Hall of Fame: “Advantageously exposed”: Palmer Putnam’s 1.5 MW Wind Turbine, 1941
05/09/2013 |
| Supplying electrical power generated from wind to the commercial supply grid has a long history. Although wind power began to make great strides towards industrial scale installations in the late 1970s and 1980s, many of the technical obstacles had been addressed in the 1930s. |
