Early Warning System Predicts Risk of Online Students Dropping OutIt’s easy enough for students to sign up for online university courses, but getting them to finish is much harder.
Publish date: 05/01/2019
Silicon Valley’s Highest-Paying Tech JobsJob-search site Indeed crunched its Silicon Valley hiring numbers for 2018, looking at tech job searches, salaries, and employers, and found that engineers who combine tech skills with business skills as directors of product management earn the most, with an average salary of US $186,766.
Publish date: 04/30/2019
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Who’s Firing? (Oracle, Space X), Who’s Hiring? (Sony, Glassdoor), and Who’s Paying in Bitcoin?Were more engineering jobs created or lost in the first months of 2019? The biggest news came in March, when Oracle started clearcutting engineers around the world.
Publish date: 04/30/2019
IEEE WIE Conference to Focus on Ways to Boost the Number of Women in Senior PositionsAlthough female engineers have made great strides in the past few decades, the number of them in high-level positions is still low compared with male engineers.
Publish date: 04/25/2019
Find Your Next Tech Job in One of These Boom TownsTech’s share of the Silicon Valley job market continues to grow, in spite of the loud and constant complaints about dramatically escalating housing costs. That’s the conclusion of a study by job site Indeed.
Publish date: 04/25/2019
Tips for EE Students on Getting Skills They Need for the WorkplaceAs a new college graduate, you might think all you need to get a job is a killer résumé that shows you can master the position’s technical aspects. But you also need to become adept at communicating with people, according to Harry T. Roman, the author of a new IEEE-USA e-book, Transitioning From Student to Engineer.
Publish date: 04/25/2019
Cybersecurity Job Openings Boom, Pool of U.S. Job-Seekers ShrinksRecruitment site Indeed has good news for cybersecurity professionals: Demand is booming around the world.
Publish date: 04/25/2019
IoT Security and AI Ethics Among Topics to Be Featured at Annual IEEE EventThis year’s IEEE Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit (IEEE VIC Summit) not only addresses crucial technologies but also highlights the need for more female technologists.
Publish date: 04/23/2019
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What Happens When Good Engineers Write Bad Software?Our lives are plagued by software failures. Usually it happens on a personal scale, but sometimes the impact can be international in scope, as when an airline booking system goes down. With software such a critical part of modern life, the question remains: Why is so much of it so bad?
Publish date: 04/17/2019
Who Hired A Lot in 2018?What tech companies have tried to hire the most engineers in 2018? Job search firm Indeed.com took a look at job postings from January through November and found Amazon and Microsoft were at the front of the pack for the United States as a whole, while Apple and Amazon ranked one and two, respectively, for Silicon Valley.
Publish date: 04/17/2019
