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Attracting Women to Manufacturing Still a Challenge
Driven by more competitive labor market, lower energy costs and the re-shoring movement, American manufacturing has been able to grow by about 600,000 jobs in the last four years, reversing a...
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5 Dream Employers for Engineering Grads
Jobs requiring skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics are in high demand. According to a recent study by US News and World Report, there were 5.7 million job openings in...
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Mass Manufacturers Face Workforce Shortage
One in three Massachusetts manufacturers report having a difficult time hiring the production workers they need, according to a UMass Dartmouth survey of 1,350 manufacturing firms conducted for the...
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Top 5 Most Underrated Careers of 2014
The Stephen Kings and Don Drapers of the world are pretty rare. Advertising executives don’t have the time for impromptu trips to fabulous locations or to gently hatch catchy slogans for weeks on end,...
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Best Engineering Jobs for 2012
Back in October we heard President Obama talk a lot about creating new opportunities in engineering and investing in STEM education. Obama’s jobs speech was inspiring, and things aren’t all bad – for...
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Manufacturing Workers Unhappy, New Survey Suggests
A new survey by jobs site Monster.com reveals that manufacturing industry workers in the United States may be unhappy and likely to be searching for a job. Monster’s month-long study “U.S. Workforce...
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Oil-Rich Alaska Struggles to Produce Engineers
The 4,200 residents of Barrow, Alaska, cheerfully call it “the top of the world.” But it takes a very special type of person to live there. The northernmost city in the United States, coastal Barrow is...
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East-Coast Tech Hubs Lose out to Texas
Austin, Texas was the best performing U.S. city of 2013, according to two recent studies by the Milken Institute and Praxis Strategy Group. Both the Milken and Praxis studies favor cities with strong...
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Are Engineers CEO Material?
Americans believe that engineers are one of the least likely professionals to make it to the top rungs of the corporate ladder. That’s according to a new survey conducted by Kelton Global for...
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Do Engineers Need MBAs?
Should engineers invest in an MBA? According to a survey from Dice Holdings, out this month, one-third of technical workers think it’s a good idea. Dice Holdings—which hosts websites for professional...
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Lifestyle Benefits Lure Engineers Back to Small-Town America
MISSOULA, Montana— Back when James Stephens graduated from the University of Montana with degrees in chemical engineering and industrial microbiology, the fly-fishing in the sleepy city of the northern...
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Best Engineering and High-Tech Jobs for 2013
A recent study by CareerBuilder and Economic Modeling Specialists Intl., as well as data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, show significant job growth in engineering and high-tech. CareerBuilder and...
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Bid to Boost Women Engineers Abroad Works Both Ways
When 42 technology-minded women from the Middle East and North Africa were paired up with mentors from the United States, it was hard to tell who learned more from the experience. TechWomen, a...
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High Demand for Civil Engineers as Infrastructure Repairs Become Critical
Between the endless fiscal problems, the divisive politics, and the response from the thirsty Republican senator, it was easy to miss one of the most dramatic moments of President Barack Obama’s State...
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Industry Pushes for Tech Worker Immigration Reform
Google and Yahoo! finally have something they can agree on: Changing United States law to make it easier to hire foreign-born engineers. The top executives of both companies are among the high-tech...
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Demand for Robotics Engineers Grows
When we think of a robot, many of us might envision something like Rosie the robot maid from the Jetsons cartoon, a machine designed to do its owner’s bidding with varying degrees of competence and...
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Veterans Meet Demand in Advanced Manufacturing
Thanh Duong got his Army release papers just as the Great Recession was beginning. “Jobs were nonexistent—at least, jobs you could live on,” says Duong, who goes by Tom, and who drove to California...
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Why Engineers Need To Develop T-Shaped Skills
What are the most crucial skills an engineer needs? Most people, when asked this question, may say that mathematical proficiency and technological expertise are most important. And they are right, to a...
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Engineers and Social Networks? Oil and Water, or Oil and Vinegar? (part 1 of 2)
I recently had the pleasure of serving as...
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Engineers and Social Networks? Oil and Water, or Oil and Vinegar? (part 2 of 2)
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Why Do Women Matter in Engineering and Science?
This week, a group of trailblazing women in...
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4 Ways to Boost Workplace Innovation
Innovation isn’t the purview of lone geniuses being...
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Extreme Sports Ramp up Engineering Degrees
For university students with both STEM smarts and a taste for action sports, a new academic discipline is gaining traction: extreme sports engineering. Advances in technology have made action sports...
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Sports Technology Innovation Full STE@M Ahead
It’s hard to know which came first: advances in the daring of extreme athletes or in the technology that propels them ever farther, higher and faster. For Anette “Peko” Hosoi, a professor of mechanical...
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