Learning Objectives Engineering salaries and bonuses were expected to increase. COVID-19 accelerated technology innovation. Engineers expect to get paid more in 2021 ($108,096 in 2021 compared to $102,669 in 2020, $101,450 in 2019 and $100,339 in 2018), and 62% expected a 2021 salary increase, down slightly from 69% in 2020, and down from 74% […]
One of the clearest “coming attractions” for operational technology (OT) is the application of traditional information technology (IT) systems or security management (ITSM) into the industrial controls environment. For nearly 20 years, IT teams have applied foundational techniques such as hardware and software management, secure and sustainable configuration management, patch management, user and account management, […]
Education advice was most plentiful (64 replies) when respondents to the 2021 Control Engineering Career and Salary Survey were asked to contribute “engineering career-related advice” to others. The next five categories of advice were in a statistical dead heat in numbers of replies, ranging from 53 to 50: Communication, attitude, workplace strategies, engineering tips and […]
The sense of touch conveys important information about internal and external conditions. Receptors can perceive temperature, pressure, friction, or stretch. But what do we feel when we tap, swipe, scroll, and fling on the glass screen of our smartphone? Hardly anything. Haptics can bring back the touch sensory information. Boréas Technologies (Bromont, Canada) has introduced […]
Starlink, the streak in the night sky launched by SpaceX, will connect with Google’s cloud infrastructure, enabling the satellite broadband network to deliver low-latency applications, data and other cloud services to network edge deployments. SpaceX earlier signed a similar agreement to connect its Starlink constellation to Microsoft’s Azure cloud. SpaceX has so far launched more […]
“Hey Alexa, what do you do with my data?” Smart objects are growing in popularity in both our homes and workplaces, but you may get more than you expect. While they make lives easier and more seamless, smart objects also open us up to a greater risk of cyberattack. In this article, we discuss some of […]
Early Saturday morning (Beijing time), China’s Tianwen-1 lander separated from its orbiter and successfully performed a fully autonomous powered descent to the Martian surface, carrying the Zhurong rover along with it. The landing site is Utopia Planitia, past site of the Viking 2 lander and future site of a major Starfleet shipyard.
This webinar introduces the SynMatrix filter synthesis and optimization tool that can be used to drive Ansys HFSS full wave simulation and filter tuning.
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Engineers at Harvard have developed a solid-state lithium-ion battery that charges up fast and charges and discharges many times without degrading much. In an EV such a battery should charge in 10 to 20 minutes and last for the lifetime of the vehicle. Right now the laboratory prototype is the size of a coin. In an EV it […]