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NEWS from IEEE-USA 2001 L Street, N.W., Suite 700 Washington, DC 20036-4928 ‘Electrons Don’t Come From Heaven,’ Speaker will Say at Carbon Management Technology Conference in Orlando   WASHINGTON (25 January 2012) – Heated discussions are underway concerning the impact of advanced electric vehicles (EVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and current hybrid EVs on [...] Read Full Story

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Powering America initiative will present a series of monthly webinars in 2012 beginning this Wednesday, January 18, at 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST). In the first of this series, Wind Powering America will host a discussion about recent activities that support increased market adoption of wind power technologies. [...] Read Full Story

St. John’s, NL – The Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland is pleased to announce Canadian Space Agency astronaut Dr. Robert Thirsk will offer a presentation at the winter edition of Speaking of Engineering. Dr. Thirsk’s presentation will focus on his experiences from living in space for six months aboard [...] Read Full Story

NEWS from IEEE-USA 2001 L Street, N.W., Suite 700 Washington, DC 20036-4928 IEEE-USA Supports Inventors’ Rights in Brief before U.S. Supreme Court, Oral Arguments Heard Today WASHINGTON (9 January 2012) –A brief IEEE-USA filed in support of inventors’ rights was part of a case the U.S. Supreme Court heard today. “The court reviewed inventors’ rights [...] Read Full Story

ASME has added an EWEEK 2012 page to their Website’s Get Involved section. Resources and links are designed to guide volunteer leaders –and others — in cultivating engineer workforce development. Click here. ASME’s Engineers Week 2012 video shines a light on students practicing hands-on engineering and having fun doing it! High school teens design and build robots [...] Read Full Story

As noted in the December 2011 edition of Licensure Exchange (volume 15, issue 6, page 11) NCEES has approved the following list of calculators for use in the April and October 2012 exam administrations: Casio: All fx-115 models. Any Casio calculator must contain fx-115 in its model name. Hewlett-Packard: The HP 33s and HP 35s [...] Read Full Story

The most popular TheProfessionalEngineer.com articles and pages of 2011 included the following: Requirements Engineering Graduates Salary State Agencies Test Strategy Overview Continuing Education October 2009 Exam Pass Rates Engineer’s Stamp or Seal Registered Energy Professional CPEES Search Job Listings Read Full Story

CONTACT Andrea Koncz, ext. 121, or Mimi Collins, ext. 119, 800.544.5272 E-MAIL akoncz@naceweb.org E-MAIL mcollins@naceweb.org DATE November 17, 2011 SUBJECT What Matters in a Resume? BETHLEHEM, PA—What do employers look for in a resume? Beyond the candidate’s ability to meet standard criteria—the “right” major or work experience—employers are most likely to look for evidence that [...] Read Full Story

Memorial University, RDC and Statoil announce new research chairs in engineering A $2-million investment by Statoil Canada and the Research & Development Corporation (RDC) will boost Memorial University’s research expertise in reservoir engineering. The funding will create the Statoil Chair and Statoil Associate Chair in Reservoir Engineering at Memorial University and foster the development of [...] Read Full Story

Currently the majority of U.S. states require continuing education of some type for licensed professional engineers to maintain licensure. Some state boards, such as Florida, Louisiana, New York, and North Carolina, require that continuing education providers be pre-approved.  It is the engineer’s responsibility in the other states to determine whether an activity meets the guidelines set forth by [...] Read Full Story