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June 18, 2001
[Careers]
Assessing An Employer's Financial Health
It's not only the dot-coms that are laying off thousands of professionals. Established technology companies such as Lucent, Nortel, and General Electric have also announced layoffs that total in the tens of thousands. Telecom companies have suffered...
April 16, 2001
[Careers]
Take Control Of Your Time On The Job
Maybe you've just come into a new job and the amount of work seems overwhelming, or perhaps your company has experienced an increase in design projects and is reluctant to hire more engineers. Either way, you find yourself with a workload that you...
March 19, 2001
[Careers]
Skills For A Successful Manager
Throughout my career, I've viewed the management ranks as a territory I couldn't quite figure out, and one in which I could never really participate. Although I have held minor management positions, I never felt comfortable in them, and I inevitably...
February 19, 2001
[Careers]
Make Telecommuting Work For You As An Engineer
Over the last several years, a great deal of press has focussed on the advantages and limitations of telecommuting—that is, performing office work while at home. This approach has proven very successful for jobs whose tasks, responsibilities,...
January 22, 2001
[Careers]
Are You A "Great Communicator"?
No, the above title doesn't refer to Ronald Reagan. It doesn't refer to a new and vastly more powerful Internet protocol either. Instead, it refers to your potential as a communicator of ideas, concepts, designs, and implementations. Like most broad...
December 18, 2000
[Careers]
Identify And Manage Work-Related Stress
With complex engineering problems, short deadlines, and not enough people and equipment, the demands placed on engineers today can make any design job highly stressful. For engineers who are used to making and implementing decisions analytically,...
November 20, 2000
[Careers]
Managing Travel And Design Conflicts
Today, many engineers find themselves traveling for business reasons. With an increasing number of business and technology partnerships, conferences, trade shows, and acquisitions, as well as geographically distant development teams, you could find...
November 6, 2000
[Technology Report]
Simulation Tools Speed Design Debug And Verification
Shorter time-to-market cycles and the increasing densities of both programmable logic devices (PLDs) and system-on-a-chip (SoC) ICs have made design simulation an essential part of the development cycle. The growing practice of designing hardware at...
October 30, 2000
[Careers]
Managing Conflict In The Workplace
Most people don't enjoy facing the difficult situations that sometimes occur with co-workers in the workplace. Such situations may arise from honest disagreements over design or engineering issues, personnel or benefits matters, management decisions...
October 16, 2000
[Careers]
Should You Go Back To School Or Not?
Back to School, Rodney Dangerfield's 1986 movie of a successful businessman returning to college to work on his bachelor's degree, illustrated many of the nontraditional reasons for continuing a formal education. Dangerfield's character,...
September 18, 2000
[Careers]
Weighing The Pros And Cons Of Vendor-Specific Certifications
There was a time when professional engineering certification meant something. Every state in the United States has long had education and experience requirements for being licensed as a professional engineer, or PE. Holders of that license were...
August 21, 2000
[Careers]
Knowing When To Leave: Look At Yourself And Your Environment
My father worked for the same company, in the same job, for 31 years. Today, it's becoming unusual for professionals to spend a significant part of their careers with a single company. One reason is because hiring goals have changed. Also, shifting...
July 24, 2000
[Careers]
Mixing Work And Leisure: A Blurring Line
At the end of the workday, some of your fellow engineers head out the door together, perhaps for dinner, drinks, or even a movie. They used to invite you, but you had family activities or night school after work, and repeatedly declined. After all,...
June 26, 2000
[Technology Report]
Embedded Linux Starting To Make Sense
The Linux hype is in full swing in embedded-systems projects. A small but rapidly growing number of startup companies are offering Linux code, tools, and services for embedded development. Web sites such as www.Linuxdevices.com are springing...
June 26, 2000
[Technology Report]
The Hybrid Alternatives
Most traditional real-time operating-system vendors, along with their respective tool chains, are threatened in one way or another by Linux. To existing commercial solutions, the most dangerous aspect of Linux is royalty-free distribution. For...
June 26, 2000
[Technology Report]
Building Linux Databases
A growing number of embedded-system developers are seeking access to small and fast database-management systems for their projects. There was little need in the past for databases driven by embedded systems. But, the requirements of data-acquisition...
June 26, 2000
[Careers]
Preparing For Your Performance Review
One of the most difficult nonengineering chores that both managers and employees have to contend with is the job performance-review process. Employees feel at the mercy of the system and their managers, while managers usually don't have time to...
May 29, 2000
[Careers]
Sell Your Ideas To Your Colleagues
Many of us who toil in the trenches have some definite opinions on our product or service, how we perform our jobs, and what we should do differently, now and in the future. Yet, in an existence that appears to strangely mirror Dilbert's, our...
May 15, 2000
[Careers]
Deciding Whether To Take That Promotion
It happens to just about all of us eventually. So you're a mid-career engineer, possibly a project leader. You've been with the company for many years, receiving very good performance reviews and above-average pay raises. You're pretty confident and...
May 1, 2000
[Technology Report]
Hot-Swap Hardware And Software Hurdles Continue To Fall
After years of design-engineer frustration, hot-swap and live-insertion technologies are gradually evolving from expensive, special-purpose solutions to mainstream design alternatives. Thanks to standardization efforts from board vendors on both the...
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