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National Engineers Week: Feb 19-25
EWEEK ^ | Feb. 19, 2005 | various

Posted on 02/20/2006 8:24:23 AM PST by avg_freeper

Main Site: with activities for kids

Lockheed Martin Inspires Central Florida Students to Pursue Technical Careers During National Engineers Week 2006

ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lockheed Martin's Central Florida businesses will support local activities to promote math and science education for students during National Engineers Week, February 19-25. Through fun hands-on activities, students will learn about engineering and engineering careers.

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General Dynamics Hosts Student Events for National Engineers Week
ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD - News), is sponsoring events nationwide during National Engineers Week beginning Feb. 20, 2006.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: campus; engineering; nsf; scienceeducation; sciencefair; teens
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To: superfries
I need US citizens with clearances and the battle is raging between the big boys for this talent.

You got that right. I discovered the TOP SECRET job fair in Denver two weeks ago. We got about 100 excellent resumes and most of them had clearances and experience in the defense industry. I am going to the same event in Los Angeles in two weeks and taking six hiring managers. Of course, the competition for these folks is fierce.

41 posted on 02/20/2006 10:04:28 AM PST by Casloy
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To: oceanview

well they ought to take this thread into account when pursuing a major.

I would take an EE with a CS minor and a clearance if he had hardware design experience and put him to work for a lifetime. Hardware design and integration is a tough skill to find.


42 posted on 02/20/2006 10:04:35 AM PST by superfries
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To: beef
What's the difference between that and engineering, except that you can't send your plumbing to India to get it fixed? Like it or not, engineering is a skilled trade. Nothing more. They want you to think you are a "professional" so they don't have to pay overtime. The lot of the engineer would improve significantly if we would just accept that fact and demand to be treated accordingly. It has worked well for me.

Sounds like you might need a new job.

43 posted on 02/20/2006 10:05:14 AM PST by Down South P.E. (Be a Berean Acts 17:11)
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To: Casloy

And you are restrained by the price your govt agency is able to pay not what a Lockheed/Boeing could pay.


44 posted on 02/20/2006 10:06:56 AM PST by superfries
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To: Wurlitzer

let's hope we don't bump into each other someday - while both wearing orange tool belts.

this is another thing I keep trying to explain to young FR engineer wannabees - if you want to stay technical and not move into management, you had better plan on a mid life career change. engineers in their 50s are looked at like curbside garbage in US industry, and when the downsize/offshoring comes, you are out.


45 posted on 02/20/2006 10:07:08 AM PST by oceanview
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To: Wurlitzer
Not yet at Lowes but you are spot on regarding EEs.

Perhaps if you aren't willing to relocate.

46 posted on 02/20/2006 10:07:20 AM PST by Casloy
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To: avg_freeper
An oldy but a goody.
47 posted on 02/20/2006 10:09:48 AM PST by 300magnum (We know that if evil is not confronted, it gains in strength and audacity, and returns to strike us)
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To: superfries
And you are restrained by the price your govt agency is able to pay not what a Lockheed/Boeing could pay.

Starting I am competitive with Lockheed/boeing. But once they have about 5 to 10 years it is tougher. I still am able to occasionally recruit people away who want a change of mission, but the movement the other direction is definitely greater.

48 posted on 02/20/2006 10:10:16 AM PST by Casloy
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To: TXBSAFH

LOL!


49 posted on 02/20/2006 10:14:34 AM PST by knittnmom (...surrounded by reality)
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To: 300magnum

you folks down in the greenville area are busy aren't ya:) Good stuff! lol


50 posted on 02/20/2006 10:19:31 AM PST by superfries
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To: oceanview
"give it up. this field is dead as a profession for americans, its all slowly going offshore, and young people headed for college best see this trend and move into something else that is going to be around, if they want to have a career and earn a decent living."

Yeah, sadly.

Did you see where Boeing is farming out the design of the subsystems of the new 787 to a Russian design bureau?

It gives pause to us engineers who used to design some pretty good airplanes for Boeing.

51 posted on 02/20/2006 10:20:46 AM PST by nightdriver
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To: Casloy
recruit people away who want a change of mission


LOL.  It just keeps getting worse.

52 posted on 02/20/2006 10:22:14 AM PST by beef (Who Killed Kennewick Man?)
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To: superfries
I recruit for one of the nations largest defense contractors and am continuously searching for hardware/software RF, LO, EO/IR, system integration and design engineering types with clearances to fill my engineering jobs and I am telling you, the talent isn't out there.

Horsehockey. Let me guess, you're recruiting kids straight out of school with BS degrees at less than $40k per year. Yes, there's a shortage of those. Because there's a huge surplus of Engineers with advanced degrees over the age of 40. Every single Enigneer I know of who fits in the latter category is either long term unemployed or underemployed ("want whipped cream on your latte?"), and the kids going into school these days see that. Why work so hard when the industry will discard you when you're a few years older and have wisdom and experience that's "too expensive"?

Case in point. I have a Ph.D. in EE, from a Tier One school, a successful track record in research and development, a half dozen patents, and I'm in my early 40s, white male US citizen. I live in Silicon Valley. I have been told more than two dozen times in the past three years that I'm "overqualified" for any Engineering job by recruiters like yourself (nobody wants excellence because nobody wants to pay for excellence). Research in the US is dead, killed by Clinton Administration budget priorities that have yet to be corrected. Academia isn't an option because of declining enrollments. Doing a tech startup (tried that, 0-3)is no longer an option since the vast majority of Venture Capital is going to India and China (seed capital and "A" rounds are about 20% of what they were in 1994, pre-dotcom). So, I'm eeking out a living as a managment consultant.

A few months back I worked with my undergraduate Engineering school, recruiting at local Bay Area Catholic high schools. At one school, the nuns literally told us to leave because "it is immoral to recruit into a dead profession". Fair enough, I now wish I'd spent seven years becoming an attorney instead of 12 years becoming "overqualified".

53 posted on 02/20/2006 10:24:28 AM PST by HolgerDansk ("Oh Bother", said Pooh, as he worked the bolt.)
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To: Down South P.E.
Sounds like you might need a new job.

 

Did that a long time ago.  I work.  I get paid.  I go away.  It's the only way to do it.

54 posted on 02/20/2006 10:27:10 AM PST by beef (Who Killed Kennewick Man?)
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To: HolgerDansk

good post.

alot of people just don't want to face the cold reality. but the key barometer I see is where my engineer colleagues are sending their own kids for college - and its not for engineering. law, finance, business, education, health care, travel/leisure/entertainment, etc.

I would send my own child to engineering school, but only coupled with an MBA so they could get into management.


55 posted on 02/20/2006 10:32:39 AM PST by oceanview
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To: HolgerDansk
I have been told more than two dozen times in the past three years that I'm "overqualified" for any Engineering job by recruiters like yourself (nobody wants excellence because nobody wants to pay for excellence).

I guess that depends on what you consider good pay for excellence. I hire engineers like you all the time and I don't think the word "over-qualified" has ever crossed my lips. I start kids right out of school, with BS degrees at 56 to 58K. Someone with a PHD in EE, patents, and about 10 years experience in research and development would start at about 110K. Obviously, you can make more than that in the private sector, but at least with the government you wouldn't find yourself putting whipped cream on latte.

56 posted on 02/20/2006 10:32:57 AM PST by Casloy
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To: Casloy
Perhaps if you aren't willing to relocate.

駄目です。

57 posted on 02/20/2006 10:33:05 AM PST by HolgerDansk ("Oh Bother", said Pooh, as he worked the bolt.)
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To: HolgerDansk
?????

I don't read chinese, or whatever that is. But, it doesn't look good.

58 posted on 02/20/2006 10:34:55 AM PST by Casloy
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To: Casloy
"Perhaps if you aren't willing to relocate."

Hmmm! Lets see! Do I want to leave NY State, one of the highest taxed, over regulated, welfare mentality, unionized, dumbocrap infested states in the country. Where do I sign up!

I firmly believe that being past 50, even with a clear record of success as indicated by steady advancement, is the big albatross around my neck.

The last 3 interviews were funny. I can dumb down the resume but I find it hard to dumb down in the interview. There are still way too many people in the workforce who do not want their subordinates to know more than they do.

When I was in management, I welcomed the brightest I could find as it was not only the smart thing to do but I made my job so much easier. The smarter the better as long as they were dedicated workers they could be 30 IQ points higher than me and that would be fine.

59 posted on 02/20/2006 10:40:18 AM PST by Wurlitzer (The difference between democrats and terrorists is the terrorists don't claim to support the troops)
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To: HolgerDansk
Horsehockey. Let me guess, you're recruiting kids straight out of school with BS degrees at less than $40k per year.

No, I'm looking for folks like yourself who have clearances. I don't pretend to know what your specific circumstances where before the dotcom boom/bust but I can tell you this, part of my sourcing efforts involve surfing the US patents website for folks just like you. While my company does recruit kids straight out of school, that is not my area of expertise. I can tell you this, in order to be competitive, no one is starting at my company straight out of school with an engineering degree at less than 40k, no way, no how.

60 posted on 02/20/2006 10:42:02 AM PST by superfries
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