Real-world apps in school help EEs
find jobs

If the number of calls from companies looking to interview recent grads is any indication, the hiring situation has improved greatly since two years ago, says Karen Panetta, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Tufts University (Medford, MA) and chair of the Education Society of the Institute...

The job market is improving for African Americans in IT

When the economy started getting pummeled a few years ago, the IT job market also took some hits, but 2010 may turn out to be its comeback year, says Wayne Hicks, executive director of the BDPA Education and Technology Foundation (BETF). BETF is a nonprofit charity founded in 1992 to support...

DOE reshapes college recruiting

'To successfully discover and recruit talented people, we can no longer wait for them to come to us," says Edwin Luevanos, program coordinator for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE, Washington, DC). "We have to reach out to interact with the quality of people we're looking for." Luevanos is tasked...

HP Labs presents awards

Palo Alto, CA – The HP Labs Innovation Research program provides colleges, universities and research institutes around the world with opportunities to conduct breakthrough collaborative research with HP. Fifty-two universities received 2010 Innovation Research awards. The program is designed to encourage open collaboration between HP and the...

UC-Irvine promotes interdisciplinary engineering studies

At the University of California, Irvine (UCI) Henry Samueli School of Engineering, innovative engineering requires an interdisciplinary approach and students work across majors to accomplish their goals. A number of courses and majors are offered jointly with the Donald Bren School of...

Wright Express seeks friendly people who are eager to learn

Wright Express Corp is a company with a "family feel" to it. Diversity and inclusion are top priorities, and IT pros can find plenty of opportunities.
"We like to hire at various levels, from recent college grads to people with significant experience, and it's important to us that they be people who are...

BPA focuses on bringing in entry level engineers

Bonneville Power Administration (BPA, Portland, OR) needs entry level engineers to bridge the retirement of as much as 40 percent of its workforce. "We have a huge bubble of people looking at retirement," says John Haner, manager of communications and grid modeling, and co-chair of the...