Google Mind The Gap Program Aims To Get More Women Into Computer Engineering
Google ran a blog post today about how it encourages women to study engineering, highlighting its “Mind the Gap” program. The program aims to tackle the issue of the decline in females studying computer science globally. “Teenage years have been …
Engineering, computer science majors take home biggest checks
The class of 2011 scored higher-paying jobs than graduates the year before, with engineering and computer science majors taking home the fattest paychecks.
Class of 2011 scores higher-paying jobs
The class of 2011 scored higher-paying jobs than graduates the year before, with engineering and computer science majors taking home the fattest paychecks.
Fed H-1B Visa Probes May Help American Engineers
As this screen shot suggests, American engineers are seething over the loss of jobs to foreign — mostly Indian — workers. American computer professionals who complain that they lose jobs or get lower pay because of imported tech workers may have reason to smile.
Utah company holds up to Steve Jobs' vision
Having just finished reading the remarkable biography of Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple Computer who died of cancer at the...
Mercer Island student's video game earns White House visit
13-year-old Jasper Hugunin, of Mercer Island, participated in Tuesday's White House science fair, where he showed off a computer game he had created. It was part of the Obama administration's effort to lift American students' performance in math and science.
What jobs are hottest in Huntsville? IT, health care, engineering, defense, biotech, and other high-tech
I have a friend who, after dinner or before bedtime, reads books on numbers or math. Not because he's studying for a graduate degree or up for a promotion. Nobody threatens or bribes him.
Teens learn robotics as factories lack skilled workers
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - At the Escuela Vieau School in downtown Milwaukee, seventh-grader Camila Garcia was building a model wind turbine in a class intended to spark interest in engineering. "At first, I thought, 'This is for boys, it's not for me. I can't do it,'" the 13-year-old recalled. "Now I see that I can do it and that it's fun." Her nascent interest in both learning math as well as the ...
How to Make Science and Tech Jobs More Enticing to Undergrads
The number of U.S. undergraduate degrees being awarded in most STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and math) has risen steadily in recent years{link to G Sci page}. Yet some American employers say they are having trouble finding candidates to fill STEM jobs. The mismatch is not occurring because of an actual shortage of graduates; the numbers of job openings and new degree holders ...
New tech graduates being snapped up
New graduates from the Electronic and Computer Engineering programme at NUI Galway are experiencing demand for their skills far beyond anything they could have ever imagined when they entered the course.