Three opportunities to tell your story

Ever hear the saying, “it’s all about me.” Well, here are three opportunities to make it all about you and what you do as an engineer.

First, EDN and its partner Tektronix launched a “Tell Us Your Tale” contest that we’ve just extended to close on Wednesday, October 26, 2011. The contest is centered around EDN’s popular Tales From The Cube column, where engineers relate their most vexing design challenges — and how they conquered them.

What’s your Tale? Tell us about a memorable experience you’ve had successfully solving an engineering problem at work or in your spare time. Enter our Tell Us Your Tale Contest sponsored by Tektronix and you could win a scope — plus your work could be published in EDN. Get the contest info here and check out some recently published Tales From The Cube columns here.

Second, EDN just started a new blog all about giving you, the engineer, a voice. Open to our audience, the “Voice of the Engineer” blog  is an “open mic” for you to share your thoughts, ideas, and outlooks on being an engineer.

We encourage engineers to share their perspectives on all matters of engineering, be that what’s happening in the electronics industry, changes to design, what it means to be an engineer, or anything else of relevance to you and your peers. E-mail submissions for this blog to edn.editor@ubm.com. And be sure to tune back in to see what your fellow EEs have to say.

And last, but not least, element14 this week launched an online video challenge, open to electronics design engineers and enthusiasts worldwide until January 31, 2012.

As element14 says in its press release on the challenge: “Entrants are invited to ‘tell their story’ by submitting a video blog. The choice of topic can be anything from a video blog about a designer’s workbench, to highlighting how a problem was solved or just taking a camera into work and talking about daily challenges around the office. It can even be about what people think the next big innovation needs to be in the electronics industry.” So it’s a pretty open contest.

Videos will be judged on their creativity by a panel of element14 peers and the winner will receive an iPad2. In addition, one winner will be randomly selected each week to receive a selection of element14 branded merchandise from that week’s entrants, which include those who comment, vote, or post videos.

More information on the challenge and examples of video entries can be found here. But before you click over, check out this fun little video EE Life’s Brian Fuller did on the contest. (No animals were harmed during the making of this video.)