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Special Issue: What’s New @ IEEE Year-in-Review
This month’s issue of What’s New @ IEEE for Students will take a look back at the most popular news stories for the past year. Ranked in order of popularity based on the number of clicks received, each story will give a brief synopsis of the initial article, provide links to the original What’s New story and full article, and include recent updates on the featured technology, where applicable.
Stuff You Don't Learn in Engineering School
Are you a workaholic? According to Carl Selinger, author of "Stuff You Don't Learn in Engineering School: Skills for Success in the Real World" (Wiley-IEEE Press), 44 percent of Americans consider themselves workaholics – and you might be one of them. Selinger's book discusses the line between being a devoted worker and feeling trapped.
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UK Student Proves “Universal Computer” Theory
Alex Smith, an electronics and computing student at the University of Birmingham, UK, won a US $25,000 prize when he proved that a simple mathematical calculator can be used as a “universal computing machine”. The prize was offered by the mathematician who originally conceived the Turing machine theory, Stephan Wolfram.
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Top 100 Employers in Electronic Design
After collecting reams of relevant data, Electronic Design weighed various factors to determine the companies that have had the most influence on today's engineering careers. 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.
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RFID Industry Hungry for Engineers
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) engineers are in high demand, according to a recent article in IEEE-USA Today's Engineer. The field, still in its infancy, is seeing a tremendous amount of growth, according to industry experts, and that growth is expected continue as more uses are found for this new technology.
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IEEE Launches Internet Television
IEEE.tv is an Internet-based television network featuring targeted programming on technology and engineering produced by IEEE members. Officially released in October 2007, IEEE.tv includes programs available to the general public, along with special programming for IEEE members. New programming includes a feature on designing for sustainability with experts discussing the technical challenges of “green engineering”, an overview of career possibilities in information technology, and a program about the political challenges of developing the Group on Earth Observations (GEOSS), a global information service that includes satellite-based remote sensing technologies for data collection and analysis.
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Using the Job Interview to Spot a Bad Fit
A job interview can be more than an opportunity to impress potential employers with your qualifications and likeability. According to a Business Week article, it can (and should) also be used to see if the job you're interviewing for is a right fit.
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MIT Magazine Names Top Innovators Under 35
Technology Review, a magazine focused on emerging technologies, released its seventh annual list of outstanding innovators under the age of 35. The chosen individuals, according to the magazine, represent “the future of technology”. The list also names an Innovator of the Year and Humanitarian of the Year for 2007.
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Lifelong Learning Critical to Every Engineer's Career
IEEE-USA President John Meredith discusses why “lifelong learning is critical to every engineer's career”, in a Point of View column for Electronic Design magazine. He also recommends that young engineers seek challenging assignments because of their learning potential.
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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), took place 11-15 July 2007 in San Diego, California, 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. University of Florida, USA took 1st place, with the University of Rhode Island, Department of Ocean Engineering, USA and Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Canada coming in 2nd and 3rd, respectively.
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Where’s the Real Shortage? IT Workers or IT Jobs?
A 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.
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Video Game Addiction 'Not Mental Illness'
While the excessive use of video and online games is a problem estimated to effect about 10 percent of players, addiction experts at the American Medical Association's (AMA) annual meeting have refuted the idea that video-game addiction could be categorized as a mental disorder.
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