But industry engineers will continue to make the pilgrimage to dB Drag events because they are to car audio what Nascar is to Detroit: fertile ground for new product ideas developed by obsessive customers in pursuit of perfection.
Decades of decline have left the industry short of engineers.
Regulation is an option, but these regulations are usually pulled together by a strange assortment of governmental agencies, engineers and industry constituents with different agendas.
In our industry, most of the qualified engineers come from abroad.
At the time of the presentation, Etsy had far surpassed industry norms, boasting 20 female engineers on a 110 person team, and was celebrating growth of more than 500%.
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There are not enough aviation engineers currently graduating to meet industry needs and nearly half of them switch to other careers once they qualify.
Whereas creating a memory-chip industry is mostly a matter of buying fabrication equipment off the shelf, classier chips require lots of well-trained engineers, research and technology partners elsewhere in the computer industry.
Left unsaid: Can the 49-year-old soccer mom motivate a worldwide staff of 36, 000 designers and engineers in an old-boy industry where only "car guys"--like the colorful, cigar-chomping Bob Lutz--are considered worthy of leading vehicle development?
Nevermind the thousands of practicing oil and gas geologists, engineers and other professionals in the industry itself who, based on hundreds of billions of dollars in investment in shale oil and natural gas resources by their companies, obviously disagree with these two.
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We must also eliminate barriers for those students who work hard to acquire STEM skills but lack the funds to attend four-year colleges by providing scholarship programs and support through organizations like NACME ( National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering), Society of Women Engineers (SWE), and Industry groups like the American Council of Engineering Companies.
Industry watchers say competition between Facebook and Google for engineers and newly launched business school stars likely will intensify.
Every startup I work with is having trouble hiring engineers I thought this was a tech industry problem.
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Studio9732 believes it can contribute to the new robotics ecosystem through a refresh of the image of robotics to motivate and inspire the engineers that are the backbone of the industry.
This Wireless Waterway project is the result of thousands of volunteer hours by members of the Commission and an equal amount by those in the towing industry, academia, the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the federal Committee on Marine Transportation (CMTS), to all of whom we are extremely grateful.
Edgar Raupach was among hundreds of German engineers working in Nigeria's booming construction industry, helping pave stretches of road.
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The oil industry, too, is suffering from shortages of equipment and engineers.
What started out as a technological novelty with nameless actors, directors and engineers working in obscurity, quickly grew into an industry dominated by buzz and cults of personality as movie-going became commonplace for tens of millions of Americans.
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The Amalgamated Engineers Union was crushing what was left of the car industry.
David Edwards, chief executive of ECITB, said the rate of recruitment and training of technicians and engineers had to double within the next five years if the industry was to meet the strategic demand.
The second comes from the auto industry where, my interviewee told me, the balance between software and hardware engineers on any given infotainment project is now 50 software engineers to one hardware engineer.
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Japanese manufacturers, utilities and government-funded institutes are also working with an industry lobby called the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum to train foreign civil servants and engineers from developing countries around the world on how to operate and maintain reactors.
Nardelli has also toughened Chrysler's quality standards, making senior engineers responsible and hiring a "chief customer officer"--an industry first--to monitor quality assurance and be an advocate for the buyer.
This adversely affects industry which, by some estimates, will need as many as 800, 000 new engineers by 2018, yet we graduate only about one quarter of the number to satisfy demand.
Instead of brainstorming blanket regulations behind closed doors, federal regulators should actively be encouraging engineers and entities at the state level to study and consider means for ensuring best industry practices.
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In contrast to the financial engineers of the private-equity world, he has a genuine passion for the petrochemical industry.
But credit will belong to a global constellation of digital entrepreneurs, and engineers at the likes of GM and Toyota, who compete to finally take the auto industry out of its 19th century roots.
If we take, for instance, the automobile industry, we see their design centers or their engineering centers coming to work in Mexico, using Mexican engineers, using Mexican technicians.
"France produces fantastic engineers, " said Loic Le Meur, the founder of Le Web, an important digital-industry conference.
In the world Davis, Kumiega and Van Vliet imagine, engineers designing the trading programs would embrace a set of standards developed by their peers in the finance industry.
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