It’s always interesting to review the results of our annual engineering salary survey. We showcased the highlights in our last issue, but this year some of the most-noteworthy findings only emerged as we combed through the data to update our online engineering-salary calculator. The statistic that sprang out at us was the relatively high ...

Spring is in the air, and it is time once again for business magazines to begin unveiling their annual “best of ” lists. Get ready to hear about the best companies to work for, most admired companies, best plants, and many more. Those of us who don’t work for establishments anointed by one of these lists might gaze wistfully at the ...

You know the drum-beat of bad news about the economy is over the top when it starts showing up in the monologue of late-night TV host Jay Leno. Recently he poked fun at members of Congress for voting themselves a $4,700 pay raise with unemployment nearing record highs and the economy in collapse. “But in their defense,” he quipped, ...

Psychological strain from co-workers and bosses turn out to be a major reason for people not getting enough sleep. http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=6482

Readers of my editorials might recall my Feb. 21 column which quoted Vivek Wadhwa, Executive in Residence at Duke University, as warning that more and more PhD's head back to their own countries after getting their degree in the US. His warning is true, according to the Chronicle of Higher ...

This interesting tid bit comes courtesy of Ralph Grabowski's  upFront.eZine newsletter. You can have a new hobby by checking out how many H1B visas are hosted by companies that interest you.   ---------------   Clemson University records the number of H1B visa-holders in the USA. H1B allows US companies to employ foreign ...

You may not know Vivek Wadhwa, but you probably have heard about some of his research.   As an Executive in Residence at Duke University, Wadhwa headed an effort to examine the number of engineering graduates in the U.S., China, and India. Prompting his work were alarming reports in the media that the latter two countries ...

Last month’s Engineering Week was supposed to be a grand attempt at encouraging students to pursue careers in technical fields.   No surprise that there were a lot of E Week booster speeches about the engineering profession. The director of IBM’s worldwide research laboratories, writing in Business Week, summed up the tone of most ...

Members of the U.S. House got a surprising message during a recent meeting on America’s science and engineering workforce: Everything they thought they knew about science and engineering employment was wrong.   Specifically, there is no shortage of scientists or engineers. In fact, there are “substantially more” scientists ...

 Here are some numbers to ponder. Organizations like the AAM are sometimes given to a bit of hyperbole, but even if their figures are half right, the trend doesn't paint a pretty picture. Here's a question: Would we be worse off or better off if those jobs had not migrated outside the U.S.?         Washington, ...