Voice of the Engineer

- March 21, 2012

This blog is open to the EDN audience and moderated by EDN’s editors. We encourage you to share your perspective 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 to edn.editor@ubm.com.

Did a teacher help you along the path to engineering?

05.09.2013

It’s Teacher Appreciation Week. What do you thank your former teachers for? Read More...

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What’s your advice to this year’s engineering grads?

05.02.2013

5 Engineers: What do you wish someone had told you when you were a fresh-faced engineer just out of school? Read More...

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Are you an introvert or an extrovert?

04.25.2013

5 Engineers: Whichever you consider yourself, is it a good thing as an engineer? Read More...

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Open-source hardware: Are you on board?

04.19.2013

5 Engineers: OSH is a growing trend, with engineers seemingly vigorously supporting it or adamantly against it. Where do you stand? Read More...

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SparkFun’s Chris Taylor: Community key to open-source hardware

04.04.2013

When it comes down to it, engineer and seven-year SparkFun Electronics veteran Chris Taylor believes anything can be open source, to be shared and improved. Read More...

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What are the best practical jokes ever engineered?

03.29.2013

5 Engineers: Tell us about great pranks that involve engineering or engineers. Read More...

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What is the worst job you could have?

03.22.2013

5 Engineers: What’s the job that you never, ever want to do, even though you might sometimes be stuck with it? Read More...

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If you could go backward in your career, would you?

03.15.2013

5 Engineers: If you could downshift your position, compensation, and responsibilities, would you? Read More...

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What should NASA do next?

03.08.2013

5 Engineers: We’ve been to the moon, now we’ve got Curiosity on Mars, the Voyager crafts are still reporting data back as they head for interstellar space -- What should NASA reveal next? Read More...

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Can you engineer from home?

03.01.2013

5 Engineers: Yahoo! has decreed “no more working from home.” Can engineers be the best engineers they can be while working from home or is the office a necessity? Read More...

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5 Engineers: What’s the most idiotic question you’ve ever been asked during a job interview?

02.20.2013

It takes a massive amount of skill to navigate a job interview, especially when you’re pitched some crazy questions. Read More...

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5 Engineers: Would you marry an engineer?

02.08.2013

Would you make a life-long commitment to someone in the same field, with the same sort of thinking, and the same general tendencies, good and bad? Read More...

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5 Engineers: What should be taught in Engineering 101?

01.31.2013

Looking back from where you sit, years into your careers, what would you like to see introduced to those considering majoring in engineering? Read More...

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5 Engineers: What will engineers do when they retire?

01.25.2013

Will they find was to give back to the engineering community? Read More...

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5 Engineers: Does the future excite you or terrify you?

01.18.2013

Cameras everywhere, drones overhead, GPS locators in our phones and cars, facial recognition software, and digital records of everything: Does the future excite you or terrify you? Read More...

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5 Engineers: Why is it that engineers haven't taken over the world by now?

01.11.2013

Clearly we have the advantage in intellect. Does our stereotypical lack of social skills keep us from advancement? Read More...

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5 Engineers: What’s your 2013 New Year’s resolution?

01.04.2013

What behavior or situation will you change this year? What goal will you set that, hopefully, improves your engineering life? Read More...

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5 Engineers: What was your most memorable tech moment from 2012?

12.12.2012

2012 was a great year for engineering, science, and technology. What was your favorite accomplishment, discovery, or even blunder? Read More...

5 Engineers: When did you know you wanted to be an engineer?

12.07.2012

Were you a kid, were you in college, did you figure it out when you fixed your friends PC or when you rigged the family Christmas lights? Read More...

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Pulsic: the bleeding edge of custom IC design

11.14.2012

If you do custom chip design, you probably know Pulsic, an EDA company based in England that provides floorplanning, placement, and routing solutions for extreme design challenges at advanced nodes. Mark Williams, co-founder and CEO, recently spoke with EDN. Read More...

5 Engineers: Why do so few engineers enter politics?

11.09.2012

Wouldn’t it be great to see more engineers as our nation’s leaders? Read More...

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5 Engineers: Who would you like to hear from?

10.25.2012

Who would you like to hear from at a DESIGN West 2013 keynote? We’ve had quite a wide variety of speakers -- from Al Gore, to Woz, to 1980s rock star Thomas Dolby -- so no one is out of reach. Read More...

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Avnet’s Roy Vallee: Design careers are marathons, not sprints

10.18.2012

Roy Vallee, Avnet’s retiring chairman and former CEO, shares his take on how the electronics industry has evolved in his more than 35 years with the company and offers career advice for those just starting out. Read More...

5 Engineers: Who is better for engineering and tech: Obama or Romney?

10.12.2012

Strictly in terms of science, technology, engineering, and math, and not regarding the hot button issues that seem to make up most political debates, whose election would do more to better the world? Read More...

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5 Engineers: What question would you like to ask?

10.05.2012

What question would you liked presented to the community of engineers and management that visit EDN.com? Read More...

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5 Engineers: Do you trust technology?

09.28.2012

As engineers who understand what goes into design and technology – everything from parts to cost reductions to materials to manufacturing and more – do you trust devices to perform as they should? Read More...

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5 Engineers: What makes someone an engineer?

09.21.2012

What do you think are the key characteristics, factors, and requirements for someone to call themselves an engineer? Read More...

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5 Engineers: Is it possible for an EE to be just a hardware person?

09.14.2012

Can an EE maintain a successful career with only design expertise in hardware or must they be knowledgeable of software and other design? Read More...

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The 5 greatest engineers of all time

09.14.2012

We asked EDN’s engineering community to identify the greatest engineers of all time. Based on the answers, we present the five most cheered engineers. Read on. Who landed in the top five may surprise you. Read More...

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5 Engineers: Who are the greatest engineers of all time?

08.24.2012

There are so many influential and creative engineers to select from – everyone from Jack Kilby to Nikola Tesla to Jim Williams, Bob Pease, Woz, perhaps even an engineer a few cubes down from you – the list could be endless. Read More...

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