President Barack Obama announced an initiative to train an additional 10,000 engineers to boost competitiveness in innovation during a speech in Durham on Monday. According to the president, a growing economy depends on innovation and manufacturing stateside. “Breakthroughs…have the potential to create new employment in other sectors of the economy as well,” Obama said while discussing [...]
If we look to the future of the engineering industry its hard to see who are going to be the future engineers of the world, The UK alone has over the past } 10 years lost a net number of over 200,000 skilled engineers representing nearly 25 % of the engineering sector . [...]
Careers within the engineering industry can sometimes be hard to source, not least due to the sheer size of this industry. Engineer jobs can sometimes take potential job seekers to countries they are yet to visit and cultures they are yet to experience. The industry is a truly worldwide industry and with so many potential opportunities available it can sometimes be hard to [...]
The oil and gas industry is divided into three main sectors and companies of varying size either specialize in one area only, or deal in all three sectors at the same time. The companies that are engaged in oil exploration and production are said to be dealing in upstream activities. The Upstream sector includes areas [...]
Much like law and medicine, a successful job in engineering requires a lot of study and dedication. Entry-level engineering jobs usually ask for an undergraduate degree qualification, while some vacancies are only available to postgraduate degree holders. Engineering is a scientific role in which knowledge and precision are crucial, and extensive practical experience is [...]
As time goes on the USA and most developed countries will rely on engineering people more and more with engineers needed to develop new energy systems , create new structures, develop new technology, simply put we simply could not function without engineers yet the average age of an engineer in the USA has grown by 8 years in the past [...]
As time goes on the USA and most developed countries will rely on engineering people more and more with engineers needed to develop new energy systems , create new structures, develop new technology, simply put we simply could not function without engineers yet the average age of an engineer in the USA has grown by 8 years in the past [...]
Engineers make society work. Without the contributions of engineers, most technology in the present day would not be possible. From computers to traffic lights, all inventions had an inventor or architect. Because of this, it is extremely important to understand the contributions of engineering to world society and also understand the history of engineering. Engineers [...]
At long last the employment industry has some interesting and positive results. . The worldwide employment market increased in April with some sectors growing by almost 50 %. Research shown by by the monster jobs index and the PWC employment report that three of the main sectors that had been adversely affected by the recent credit [...]
In recent years, the state of the UK engineering industry has been comparable to challenges being faced on a global scale. The pendulum swing has gone from seeing recruiting companies report a ratio of half the amount of available positions to double the amount of available candidates, to now finding the Department for Energy and [...]
