DISCUSSION SESSIONS
FE5 - "To Be EE or not to Be?"
"Will I be Enjoying Engineering in 10 Years?"
-- (Salon 7)
Moderator: Eric Fossum, Photobit, La Crescenta, CA
Co-Organizer: Frank Libsch, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY
Co-Organizer: Fritz Kub, Naval Research Lab., Washington, DC
Issues related to career choices and strategies engineers can take to prepare for the
changing future of engineering employment will be discussed. Among these issues are
the steps for a successful engineering career, successful career paths, skills
required for a successful engineering career, common career decision mistakes,
strategies for a productive career beyond age 50, non-traditional engineering
careers, and how increased outsourcing, contracting, and globalization of engineering
will affect careers.
Panel:
Philip Girard, Intellectual Property Attorneys, San Francisco, CA
Tadashi Shibata, Tohoku University, Tokyo, Japan
Rudy van de Plassche, Philips Research Labs, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Wallace Read, President of IEEE, New York, NY
Eleanor Baum, Cooper Union, New York, NY
Pallab Chatterjee, Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX
Jim Williams, Linear Technology Corp., Milptias, CA
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