It’s a new year and New Year’s resolutions may be on your mind. You’ll find some helpful hints on making resolutions, or just getting your career into gear, in Steve Sanghi’s new book, “Ask Steve: Everyday business advice from a successful CEO.” Sanghi based his new book on a decade’s worth of advice columns he wrote for the “Arizona Republic” newspaper from 2004 … Read More → "Ask Steve: Career and management advice from the former CEO of Microchip"
Documentation is one of those things that people love or loathe. The people who create it typically loathe doing so. The people who use it can go either way depending on how well it’s written.
I was talking to a friend just a few minutes before I commenced this column. We will call my friend Joe (because that’s his name). Joe … Read More → "AI-Powered Documentation Generator and Understander"
As we discussed in the initial installment of this 2-part extravaganza, some people pursue a predictable path on their way to engineer-hood (where “-hood” comes from the Middle English “-hode,” which itself comes from the Old English “-hād,” meaning “state of being”). Others, like your humble narrator, end up taking a more circuitous route, which may involve Lady Luck finagling the dice in their favor (I … Read More → "There’s More Than One Way to Become an Engineer (Part 2)"
I was born in 1957. If you are on the younger side of things, I bet you’re thinking something along the lines of, “Wow! That’s AGES ago!” You’re right. It is. That’s why it’s taken me such a long time to get from then to now (I took the scenic route).
Along my rambling (some may … Read More → "There’s More Than One Way to Become an Engineer (Part 1)"
In honor of International Women in Engineering Day, I have an extra podcast episode this week! My guests are Dawn Vertz from Kohler Energy, Sarah Boen from Tektronix and Rosa Chow from TDK. I sat down with each of these esteemed engineers and discussed their journeys into the world of high tech, how the EE landscape has changed over the years and what they would like to see in … Read More → "Fish Fry Special Edition: International Women in Engineering Day"
I simply cannot believe that I recently penned and posted my three hundredth column here at EEJournal. I think my columns average out at around 1,500 words apiece, which means we are talking about (pause while I launch my calculator app) 450,000 words!
The really sad thing is that when I was 16 years old circa 1973, my dear old mom did everything but … Read More → "O-M-G! 100 More Captivating Columns"
