Is The Pace Of Technology Development Creating A Skills/Education Debt?

By Ron Schneiderman, May 15, 2012

What kind of people does the industry need to keep pace with new developments? Is the industry supporting them through our universities and other educational opportunities?

Engineering Salary Survey 2011: Faces of the Engineering Lifecycle

By Jay McSherry, October 11, 2011

This special edition of Electronic Design's annual Salary Survey takes you on a comprehensive tour of the engineering career, from students and new grads looking for or working their first jobs to experienced veterans getting ready to retire.

Maxim Cofounder Takes His Skills And Goodwill To Africa

By Jay McSherry, October 09, 2011

Maxim co-founder Dave Fullagar retired in 1999. But as is the case with many successful engineers, there’s more to Fullagar than his technical accomplishments. In retirement, he and his wife, Betsy, have worked unassumingly on getting children’s books to support African schools and libraries.

Engineering Employment— The European View

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2010 Design Engineering Salary Survey: How Much Financial Bounce In The Rebound?

By Jay McSherry, October 15, 2010

Author Jay McSherry presents the findings from the 2010 Electronic Design annual survey of salaries in the electronic design engineering community.

Andy Grove Has A Few Thousand Words About American Jobs

By Ron Schneiderman, July 13, 2010

Electronic Design contributing editor Ron Schneiderman comments on Bloomberg Businessweek's story about former Intel CEO Andy Grove's thoughts on American jobs.

Assessing An Employer's Financial Health

By Peter Varhol, June 18, 2001

It's not only the dot-coms that are laying off thousands of professionals. Established technology companies such as Lucent, Nortel, and General Electric have also announced layoffs that total in the tens of thousands. Telecom companies have suffered...

Take Control Of Your Time On The Job

By Peter Varhol, April 16, 2001

Maybe you've just come into a new job and the amount of work seems overwhelming, or perhaps your company has experienced an increase in design projects and is reluctant to hire more engineers. Either way, you find yourself with a workload that you...

Skills For A Successful Manager

By Peter Varhol, March 19, 2001

A career as a manager requires development of management skills in terms of leadership, focus, and a less-controlling environment that fosters creativity. This article will lead you in the right direction as a manager.

Make Telecommuting Work For You As An Engineer

By Peter Varhol, February 19, 2001

Over the last several years, a great deal of press has focussed on the advantages and limitations of telecommuting—that is, performing office work while at home. This approach has proven very successful for jobs whose tasks, responsibilities,...

Are You A "Great Communicator"?

By Peter Varhol, January 22, 2001

No, the above title doesn't refer to Ronald Reagan. It doesn't refer to a new and vastly more powerful Internet protocol either. Instead, it refers to your potential as a communicator of ideas, concepts, designs, and implementations. Like most broad...

Identify And Manage Work-Related Stress

By Peter Varhol, December 18, 2000

With complex engineering problems, short deadlines, and not enough people and equipment, the demands placed on engineers today can make any design job highly stressful. For engineers who are used to making and implementing decisions analytically,...