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National Defense June 2007 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Education Trends Portend Trouble for Defense One of the most troubling trends in the U.S. is that our schools are producing fewer U.S.-born science and math graduates than countries such as China, Taiwan, South Korea, India and Mexico.
Reason November 2005 Tim Cavanaugh	Subsidized Spin The Pentagon is spending $300,000 to send mid-career scientists, researchers, and engineers to a workshop at the television and screen writing school with the hope that some of these scientists will be inspired to produce a screenplay that paints scientists as cool.
National Defense January 2013 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Budget Woes Driving Scientists, Engineers Away from Defense Department Jobs The budget crunch is a new factor preventing the Defense Department from recruiting and retaining top talent within its science, technology, engineering and mathematics workforce, a recent report found.
Chemistry World October 25, 2011 Rebecca Trager	US STEM graduates look beyond science for careers Concern that the US is losing its scientific and technological pre-eminence has been growing for some time, accelerated by recent economic turmoil, but a new report suggests that the issue goes beyond the need for more professional scientists, engineers and mathematicians.
IEEE Spectrum July 2010 Prachi Patel	Where the Engineering Jobs Are The news is good but not great for engineers looking for work in 2010
Chemistry World August 23, 2014	Falling behind: boom, bust & the global race for scientific talent Michael Teitelbaum's book provides an interesting history of US science and engineering workforce studies and actions, and sensible recommendations and principles given the ever-changing workforce.
National Defense January 2011 Cynthia D. Miller	Defense Department Embraces STEM Education Outreach The Defense Deaprtment hires more scientists and engineers, and sponsors more research and development projects than any other federal employer.
Job Journal September 21, 2003 James Challenger	Women Taking Over by Degrees A growing disparity in degrees is giving women the edge in business.
InternetNews July 21, 2005 Roy Mark	Senators Promise 'Brain Drain' Bill Lawmakers drafting bill designed to refill America's academic pipeline with science and engineering graduates.
Job Journal May 13, 2007	Career Snapshot: Civil & Structural Engineers California's crumbling infrastructure adds to a growing demand for civil and structural engineers.
National Defense June 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Expand Work Force Based on Quality, Not Quantity, Warns Former Pentagon official The Defense Department should be careful in how it goes about expanding its acquisition work force
Job Journal March 18, 2007	Career Snapshot: Mechanical Engineer Mechanical engineers have a blueprint for durable careers.
Geotimes November 2007 Linda Rowan	Science Legislation: America COMPETES, Geeks Rule and Everybody Wins The 110th Congress went into its August recess having successfully passed a major measure for physical science research and science and engineering education.
T.H.E. Journal July 2006 Geoffrey H. Fletcher	Using Technology to Maintain Competitiveness: How to Get Our Groove Back As China and India threaten the supremacy of the US economy, our best hope for keeping pace is putting ed tech funding to use to galvanize education.
BusinessWeek October 16, 2006 Toddi Gutner	Still Working And Loving It With retiring boomers expected to cause a shortage of skilled staff, employers are making it easier for them to stay.
IEEE Spectrum September 2008 Malcolm Getz	Engineering Jobs Follow the Money But can engineers follow the jobs?
Job Journal February 19, 2006 Rich Heintz	Career Snapshot: Engineering Everything you need to know if you're considering a career in engineering in California.
InternetNews December 16, 2005 Roy Mark	A Bipartisan Push For More Tech Money New legislation calls for doubling funding for National Science Foundation, graduate fellowships and advanced training.
IEEE Spectrum December 2008 Erico Guizzo	The EE Gender Gap Is Widening Electrical engineering faces an age-old question: What do women want?
Food Engineering February 1, 2007 Kevin T. Higgins	Outsourcing Engineering Refining Priorities for New Age Engineers The balancing act that engineering teams must master is outsourcing nonessential jobs while retaining the personnel and talent necessary for innovation.
National Defense November 2009	Readers Sound Off On Recent Stories Reader responses to a previous article on attracting and acquiring new science and math experts for the military.
Chemistry World October 2006 Craig Fleming	Comment: Discrimination in the workplace New UK age discrimination legislation recently came into force. Employers should see it as a perfect opportunity to balance their workforce. This issue not only affects large pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, but many small and medium sized organizations as well.
IEEE Spectrum September 2008 Prachi Patel-Predd	The Biggest Career Choice Of All Is When to Start Grad school may cost you more than you think
National Defense September 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Technical Skills Shortage Hurts Pentagon's Bottom Line Unless current trends change, decision makers at the Defense Department may one day find that they lack a strategy for how to keep critical military programs from spinning out of control.
IEEE Spectrum March 2008 Robert W. Lucky	U.S. Engineers and the Flat Earth The recent report concludes that high-quality jobs are necessary for both individual and national prosperity and that advances in science and engineering are needed to create such jobs.
Food Engineering February 1, 2009	Youngsters Say No to Engineering as a Career While the engineering workforce continues to age, the looming question is who will replace them? According to the American Society for Quality, it won't be today's American children. Engineering isn't even on the radar for most kids.
Job Journal January 25, 2004 Marty Nemko	Where's the Passion? Are you avoiding sterotypical careers you might enjoy?
Job Journal August 14, 2005 James E. Challenger	Career Pros: Moms Return to Labor Force A shrinking labor pool may pull more stay-at-home moms into the workplace.
Job Journal September 10, 2006	Unprepared for Evaporating Labor Pool A recent survey reveals a shocking failure on the part of companies to understand and prepare for a potential wave of retirement that threatens to drain many organizations of institutional memory.
Job Journal June 29, 2008	Workplace Trends of the Future Where, how and why we work has changed dramatically over the past two decades and it will go through further transformation over the next twenty years. Here are some glimpses of the change to come.
Inc. October 2005 Shramm & Litan	Op-ed: Foreign Students Who Study Engineering Deserve Citizenship It's time that we stop envying China, and start making the U.S. a friendlier place for engineers.
IEEE Spectrum September 2012 Prachi Patel	Where the Jobs Are: 2012 Electrical engineers looking for stable jobs and high salaries should consider the power sector in particular. Outside the power industry, salary offers to engineering grads haven't changed much in a year overall.
Job Journal March 28, 2004 Rich Heintz	Demand for Engineers Building Demand remains firm for many engineering specialties. Includes a list of websites that are useful to job seekers.
National Defense August 2009 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Acquisition Work Force Reform Will Require Steady Commitment Defense Secretary Robert Gates announces a program to improve the capacity and capability of the Pentagon's work force by converting contractor positions to government jobs, as well as hiring more public servants by 2015.
IEEE Spectrum February 2011 G. Pascal Zachary	The President and the E-Word When presidents call engineers by their first names, and when they don't. In the politics of technoscience, engineering has too long been ignored, or been conflated wrongly with science.
Job Journal December 18, 2005 John Challenger	Encouraging Job Outlook for 2006 The US job market is likely to continue improving in 2006. The biggest job gains are expected to come in the financial services, technology, healthcare, energy and international business sectors.
National Defense September 2010 Mark Russell	One Company's Approach to Solving the Nation's STEM Dilemma Raytheon understands how to analyze complex systems in a comprehensive manner. These analysis techniques can be applied to the education problem of producing enough technology and engineering graduates.
National Defense August 2006 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Defense Must Sustain Investment in Basic Research One of the mainstay sources of strength of the U.S. military is its ability to continually generate new technologies, both for current and future battlefields.
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Prachi Patel-Predd	A League Of Extraordinary Women All too few girls consider engineering as a career, and the profession is the poorer for it, as talented individuals seek vocations elsewhere. But a new program is in the works in the United States to attract young women to engineering -- and to keep them in the career.
National Defense May 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Firms Think Twice Before Investing in DoD The Pentagon needs to get creative as it plans the weapons of the future, officials have said, and it needs private-sector help.
IEEE Spectrum September 2006 Robert W Lucky	Unsystematic Engineering If systems engineering is so valuable, why is it so seldom practiced? In recent years, a number of well-known universities have begun new programs in systems engineering. Maybe now is the time for these programs to become successful.
IEEE Spectrum December 2010 Henry Petroski	Engineering Is Not Science And confusing the two keeps us from solving the problems of the world
IEEE Spectrum July 2007 Terry Costlow	Hiring Heats Up Nobody's expecting a return to the hot markets of the dot-com era, but there's general agreement that demand for engineers is growing.
BusinessWeek December 8, 2003 Michael J. Mandel	Commentary: Meeting the Asian Challenge As India and China ascend the economic ladder, here are steps that America can take to boost the four key components of innovation: R&D spending, education, finance for invention, and the national willingness to take risks.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Jamieson & Norberg	The Mars Challenge Human exploration of the red planet will inspire new generations of engineers
IEEE Spectrum September 2011 John Blau	Germany Faces a Shortage of Engineers Even loosening immigration won't fill the gap, say experts
Job Journal March 29, 2009 James E. Challenger	Career Pros: Will Recession Shatter Glass Ceiling? Men are losing their jobs in much larger numbers than women.
CIO December 1, 2005 Maria Klawe	Blue Skies Ahead for IT Jobs Contrary to popular belief, career opportunities in computer science are at an all-time high. We've got to spread that message among students from a rainbow of backgrounds, or risk becoming a technological backwater.
National Defense December 2010 Cynthia D. Miller	JETS Promotes Engineering, Math To U.S. High School Students Though science, technology, engineering and math education is receiving a lot of press today, there have been organizations dedicated to the advancement of the fields for many decades.
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Carl Selinger	Gilding Your Golden Years Are you preparing for your retirement? At whatever stage of your engineering career you happen to be -- not just those of you who are well into your careers and getting closer to that day of reckoning -- you should be thinking about what to do with the rest of your life.