Sentences with phrase «about engineering in»

We want to build the profile of engineering and change outdated perceptions about engineering in order to tackle the skills gap.

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On this day, Aeryon's office on the outskirts of Waterloo, Ont., is a quiet place where about two dozen people toil in cubicles separated by glass walls scrawled with engineering formulas.

Bradken has sold its Bassendean engineering facility to Sydney property group Charter Hall in an off - market sale and leaseback deal worth about $ 32.8 million, while the Champion Drive Shopping Centre in Seville Grove has been sold for $ 13.5 million.

A man in a blue tuxedo shared pancakes with about two dozen young engineers at the space start - up.

The Congressional Research Service and the Army Corps of Engineers have estimated that the fencing already in place cost the United States about $ 7 billion.

Last month, a former engineer published a blog post in which she said she had repeatedly complained about sexual harassment and discrimination at the ride - sharing company, but was ignored or punished.

The pricing conundrum may be the fast - food industry's most difficult equation — and Thompson, an engineer who talks in terms of equations, has clearly thought deeply about this one.

There is so much you can learn about happiness if you look at it in a more structured, more engineered way.

Jimmy Iovine is an iconic entrepreneur and businessman... yet in some ways he owes his success to a lesson about teamwork that he learned early on, when he was a 22 - year - old engineer on Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run.

Heck, Ford designed, engineered, and went racing in about a year and half with the new $ 400,000 Ford GT supercar — and won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June.

How about free wi - fi, software engineering in high schools and encouraging some homegrown heroes to stay

So, for example, try offering a free spa day to the wife of a nuclear engineer and see how many respond about their husband's details in a heartbeat!

When it came to company leaders with only an undergrad education, the number with degrees in business and engineering was about evenly split.

Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»

While you could argue that Unosquare embodies criticisms about free trade sucking jobs from the U.S. economy, Barrett says companies in the U.S. can't find enough software engineers to fill open positions.

GoldieBox, a toy company on a mission to get girls excited about engineering, won a national competition sponsored by Intuit and will be featured in a 30 - second commercial during the Super Bowl.

She urged designers to think about design in a more organic way, and recognize that the solutions are multidisciplinary: «Science informs engineering which informs art which informs design.»

Instead I put myself out there, learned about the coming digital age, trusted my gut, got a Master's degree in electrical engineering, found my way into the high - tech industry, and the rest is history.

Then factor in the opportunity cost for what every person in the room could be achieving instead of listening to Biff from engineering talk about groundbreaking new advances in ball bearing technology.

When Zenger interviewed 700 Silicon Valley engineers about their performance relative to their peers, he found that nearly 40 % thought they were in the top 5 % of their company, while 92 % believed they were in the top quarter.

Like looking in a mirror: Last week we wrote about Confluent, a new open - source software startup launched by a group of LinkedIn engineers who raised first - round funding from both LinkedIn (GS) and venture capital firm Benchmark.

The Founding Partner of Incipient, Bryan Weinert, says this about EPD: «In the first year of our business, I managed a lot of the smaller development projects and only priced out proposals for the engineers and designers on the project.

The key to bear in mind is that the R&D tax credit is about rewarding applied science, taking the tools of science and engineering and addressing the task at hand.

As a result of the layoffs, primarily in its engineering and sales teams, the company said it sees savings of about $ 25 million in 2018..

Former Uber engineer Susan Fowler opened up earlier this year in a blog post about the toxic culture of workplace harassment at the company, alleging that she was sexually harassed by a male manager at Uber whose actions were knowingly brought to the attention of HR.

About a quarter of the engineering and technology companies started in the U.S. between 2006 and 2012 had at least one key founder who was an immigrant.

But what's most interesting now, as we have talked about LIFE, is that major manufacturers in the power industry, architects and engineers who do large scale integration and the like have come to us and are working with us to try and think about how to put this together.

With a background in physics, a decade of engineering wins in the corporate world and an admittedly swollen ego about his own abilities, Laberge became bored with Creo and left in 2001 with a comfortable pile of money from the company's success.

Born of a conversation among women engineers about how to grow their numbers, the toy went from Kickstarter crowdfunding project to the shelves of Toys «R» Us in less than nine months.

«There were about three of us in engineering,» remembers Meghan Laffey, the company's 33 - year - old VP of product, who started almost eight years ago.

Not happy about the dearth of women in engineering?

What's more, she's also using the day to teach her students about the lack of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields.

Asked if Sony has given this potential challenge any thought, Turvey says, «I'd be concerned if we haven't thought about it, and there's a lot smarter people than myself — our engineers in Tokyo — that have solutions for all these opportunities.

The system, which can be purchased for about $ 120,000 or leased for about $ 3,250 per month, is designed for engineers who want to rapidly develop and test hardware prototypes in their office or lab.

That raises doubts about a key argument for proponents of federal immigration reform: that companies need looser rules to import overseas workers because there aren't enough job candidates in the United States who can fill specialized skills, namely in science, technology and engineering.

The investigation, led by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, began in February after an ex-Uber engineer published a blog post in which she said she had repeatedly complained about sexual harassment and discrimination at the ride - hailing company.

In 2001, having lost a job as a software engineer with a dot - com, Zander moved to Truckee, California, and set about trying to make a living in a town of 14,000 peoplIn 2001, having lost a job as a software engineer with a dot - com, Zander moved to Truckee, California, and set about trying to make a living in a town of 14,000 peoplin a town of 14,000 people.

The biggest bombshell dropped in February, when former Uber engineer Susan Fowler published a blog post about her experiences of sexual harassment and gender discrimination at the company.

Most of the successful women I have interviewed talked about the important role that their parents had played in encouraging them to pursue science and engineering and succeed in a male - dominated industry.

But Palmer, a software engineer who'd worked with NASA, and Goodwin, an astrophysicist by training, believed they were in a position to do something about it.

Ordinary - looking fellows strut about while technical - looking engineering schematics prance about in the background.

He was most animated during a long diversion about Google's machine - learning prowess in translating English to Chinese — a tough problem, but one for software engineering, not hardware.

«And a network is really handy in engineering, because it's the people who work across the company who you can ask questions if you have a concern about a particular area,» Fedorov said.

Compenstion for pilots and flight engineers is highly dependent on experience — those in their late career can make around $ 140,000 a year, while entry - level employees only make about $ 40,000 a year, according to PayScale Canada.

Five months ago, ex-Uber engineer Susan J. Fowler published a blog post, in which she said she had repeatedly complained about sexual harassment and discrimination at the ride - sharing company, but was ignored or punished.

Social media can also pose a risk, but if your business depends on using it, at the very least make sure geolocation data is turned off in the app (there are online tools that can track a user based on this data) and be careful about oversharing, as sensitive information can be used against executives and employees in social engineering attacks.

«We hear from the industry that about 80 engineers at Apple are already working on a PMIC (power management integrated circuits) with specific plans to employ it in the iPhone by as early as 2019.»

But, in other parts of the country, you can snag star talent without worrying about interference from the tech giants, who will offer senior software engineers $ 124,131 — almost $ 20,000 above the national average, according to Glassdoor.

With one of the largest workforces in the world, its research showed that only about half of AT&T's 250,000 employees had the necessary science, technology, engineering and math skills the company required.

In a recent talk at the Cultivate conference, veteran leader, blogger and Pinterest's head of engineering Michael Lopp floated a fun answer to this question — how about merit badges for leaders?