2007 International Requirements Engineering Conference
The IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, which provides the premier international forum for researchers, educators, industrial practitioners and students to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences and concerns in the field of requirements engineering, is being held in New Dehli, India on 15-19 October, 2007. This year’s conference will focus on the international context for requirements engineering and how the field is being changed by globalization and the shift to collaborative activity. For more information about the conference, visit
IEEE Student Branches Organize Job Fairs
Three IEEE student branches organized specialized career fairs featuring high-tech companies seeking young, engineering-focused talent. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven’s IEEE student branch hosted the school’s first-ever hi-tech job fair, which featured only small companies (with fewer than 100 employees) looking for electronics, electrical, mechanical, and computer engineers. Washington State University’s IEEE student branch hosted more than 30 engineering-oriented companies for its annual technical career fair, called E4 (for Electrical Engineering Employment Exposition), which included a dinner where students could network with potential employers. Capitol College’s annual Career Day hosted more than 50 hi-tech employers and featured an IEEE Student Professional Awareness Conference (S-PAC). The conference, which was sponsored by IEEE-USA, invited speakers to give valuable career advice to students looking for a successful future after graduation. Read more
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International Summit to Focus on Growing Demand for Engineers
The IEEE and the Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (VDE) are sponsoring the “Meeting the Growing Demand for Engineers and their Educators 2010-2020” International Conference to be held in Munich, Germany on 9-11 November 2007. The conference will bring together decision makers from industry, government and education to discuss and plan the preparation of future engineers and the people who educate them. The specific focus for the conference will be to analyze and address the lack of engineers and technical educators worldwide. Main objectives for the summit include establishing and expanding partnerships between the attendees, opening channels of communication, and developing action plans to ensure the proper recruitment and training of future engineers and engineering educators. Attendance of the conference will be limited to ensure quality interaction between participants. Deadline for early registration is 15 August 2007; late registration ends 17 October 2007. For more information about registration or the conference in general, visit
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IEEE 2008 InfoCom Paper Submission Deadline
The deadline for paper submissions for the 27th Annual Conference of the IEEE Communications Society, IEEE InfoCom 2008, is 2 July 2007. Original papers are invited on recent advances in computer communications and networking. The conference is scheduled to take place 13-18 April 2008 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. For submission details and information about the conference, visit
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Premier Farnell Offers $100,000 Prize for Environmental Design
The Live Edge competition is currently seeking submissions from electronics engineers, students, and academics for designs of an innovative product that will use electronic components and have a positive impact on the environment. The winning entrant will receive a cash prize of $50,000 as well as a support package estimated to be worth an additional $50,000. Premier Farnell group will market the final product through their Web page, catalogue, and direct marketing channels. Up to five additional entrants could each receive a cash prize of $5,000. Interested parties must register by 31 October 2007 and submit their entries by 30 November 2007. The winner will be announced in January 2008. Read more
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Spanish Students Win Worldwide IEEE Programming Contest
Three IEEE student members from the Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya in Spain, were winners of the first IEEEXtreme Programming Contest. The contest, held in December and labeled “extreme” because so much had to be done in 24 hours and no time was allowed for sleep, is a worldwide challenge in which participants tried to solve 12 complicated programming problems, in addition to extra-credit problems sent every eight hours to make sure the students were not napping. The competition, which featured 47 teams composed of undergraduate and graduate student members from 27 IEEE student branches, utilized a contest management website for answer submission and scoring. The State University of New York at Stony Brook placed second with the University of Cyprus coming in third. The contest is scheduled to become an annual event. Read more
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Student “Submarine” Competition
The 10th Annual International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition, sponsored by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) and the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research (ONR), will take place 11-15 July 2007 in San Diego, CA, USA. The competition challenges students from around the globe to design and build Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) capable of performing realistic missions in the underwater environment. More information about the event is available here
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Tangling with Twitter
According to a recent review by InformationWeek, Twitter is the current favorite when it comes to maintaining an instant (and continuous) online presence, but there are other services out there which could be a better fit. 3jam, Dodgeball, Jaiku, Jooopz, Jyngle, Loopnote, Pinger, and Swarm-it are all mentioned as services that offer similar features, and take advantage of the same underlying concepts as the social networking and micro-blogging website. These services let you choose from a limited set of ways to send and/or receive messages: in a Web browser, an IM client, or a cell phone text message. Most of them are even more cellphone-centric than Twitter, in keeping with the preferred communication method of the younger segments of the population that use technology most heavily to keep in touch. Read more
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International Demand Summit Call for Papers
A call for papers has been sent out for the “Meeting the Growing Demand for Engineers and their Educators 2010-2020” International Conference to be held in Munich, Germany on 9 - 11 November 2007, sponsored by the IEEE and the Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (VDE). The conference will bring together decision makers from industry, government and education to discuss and plan the preparation of future engineers and the people who educate them. The specific focus for the conference will be to analyze and address the lack of engineers and technical educators worldwide. Attendance of the conference will be limited to ensure quality interaction between participants. Deadline for proposed paper synopsis is 30 June 2007; the deadline for final paper submissions is 1 October 2007. For more information about submitting a paper or the conference in general, please visit
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Top 100 Employers in Electronic Design
After collecting reams of relevant data, Electronic Design has weighed various factors to determine the companies that have had the most influence on today's engineering careers and compiled their findings in a list: the Top 100 Employers of Electronic Designers. Topping the list is Apple Inc. followed by Seagate Technology and Applied Materials Inc. Not far behind are heavyweights AT&T Inc, Honeywell International Inc, and Rockwell Collins Inc. Companies were judged based on 10 categories that included employee growth percentage (2006 versus 2005), sales growth percentage (2006 versus 2005), operating profit growth percentage (2006 versus 2005), operating profit margin improvement (2006 versus 2005), the total number of patents issued in 2006, and R&D expense change percentage (2006 versus 2005). Read more
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IEEE Foundation Awards More Than U.S. $50 000
Six different IEEE Foundation grants, totaling more than US $50,000, were awarded to a variety of interesting proposals. Helping students learn and preserving the history of IEEE were the two main themes running through the winning projects. The IEEE student branch at Middle East Technical University, in Ankara, Turkey, received $10 000 to support a nationwide pre-college website contest while the Clarkstown Central School District in Rockland County, N.Y., is applying a $7000 grant to support a project geared towards educating young students about how math, science, and technology work together. The IEEE Egypt Section’s Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD) group received $10 000 to support the Made in Egypt—Industry-University Linkage Program and the IEEE Education Society’s Student Activities Committee received $5000 for organizing a student session at the Second International Conference on Interactive Mobile and Computer-Aided Language. IEEE Region 8 received $9000 toward its program, Launching History Activities in IEEE Region 8, which supports members of the region who conduct oral history interviews with prominent technologists and scientists in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The sole individual grant winner, LeAnn Erickson, received $10 000 in support of an educational documentary called “Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of WW II.” To read more about the winning projects, visit
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Where’s the Real Shortage? IT Workers or IT Jobs?
A recent blog post on InformationWeek.com spoke about one of the hot button issues at the Interop conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA: the necessity of outsourcing technology-based jobs offshore because there are not enough tech workers in the U.S. to meet demand. IT worker groups like Alliance@IBM and WashTech argue that the H-1B program, which is presently capped at 65,000 visas annually but could double under proposed legislation, is already too large and continues to cost American workers their jobs. With the Senate debating sweeping changes to the nation's immigration laws, expect the voices arguing for, and against, increases in H-1B visas and other pro-immigrant measures to get louder. Read more
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