Control Engineering Career and Salary Survey, 2019
Engineers are getting paid more, although fewer expect to get increases in 2019; top factors for determining job satisfaction are feeling of accomplishment, technical challenge, and financial compensation.
Research: More skilled workers are needed; outsourcing, STEM initiatives may help
Think Again: The 2019 Control Engineering Career and Salary Survey includes questions on topics of concern, such as outsourcing, workforce, process improvement, cybersecurity, automation, and threats.
Smart robotic system developed to sniff out pollution and toxic leaks
Duke University researchers are using the physics of airflows to locate gaseous leaks more quickly in complex scenarios for processing and chemical applications. See video.
Continue education, improve attitude, use engineering tips, communicate effectively
Career update: Top areas of advice offer by respondents to the 2019 Career and salary survey from Control Engineering, CFE Media and Technology, are education, attitude, engineering tips, and communications.
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Guiding vibration simulations for turbines
The Duke-led GUIde Consortium develops faster, more accurate simulations of turbine blade vibrations to help aeronautical engineers develop safer jet turbines with lower maintenance costs.
Method developed to detect cyber attacks with compressed network traffic
Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and Towson University are developing a method on compressing network traffic as much as possible without losing the ability to detect and investigate malicious activity.
Fabrication platform produces pristine 2-D transistors
Columbia University engineers have developed a clean, damage-free fabrication process that creates pristine transistors made from 2-D material stacks.
Embedded vision systems improve virtual reality
Embedded vision systems are being used to track human eye movements and determining, which is improving virtual reality (VR) applications.
Research examines computer software code understanding and documentation
A team of researchers at Texas A&M University looked at the best way to document computer code by using samples and found that good naming, and comment were more important than good documentation.
Nominees being accepted for Plant of the Year award
The FieldComm Group is seeking qualified end users and manufacturers for the 16th annual Plant of the Year Award. Nominations will be accepted until May 31, 2019.
Researchers develop portable hyperspectral camera for imaging, research applications
Rice University engineers are building a portable hyperspectral camera, Tunable Light-Guide Image Processing Snapshot Spectrometer (TuLIPSS), which allows researchers to instantly capture data across the visible and near-infrared spectrum.