Pub Date : 2006-08-01DOI: 10.1109/UTEMC.2006.5236172
C.N. Smith
Annual turnover in technology-based employment fields remains below the US average, but the impacts of employee initiated turnover can unfortunately significantly affect any organization with knowledge workers as its key asset. This will provide an overview of issues pertinent to staff recruiting and retention in the engineering and computer science disciplines. The uniqueness of the engineering and computer science workforce in these areas will be briefly discussed. Recent statistics and trends in recruiting and retention will also be presented as further background information. Changes to traditional recruiting approaches will be presented. Suggestions on improving staff satisfaction (and, consequently, retention) will be presented in the management, project, technology, and career areas.
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Pub Date : 2006-08-01DOI: 10.1109/UTEMC.2006.5236183
C. Tulkoff, S. Breyer
The passage of the European Union (EU) Restriction on the use of certain Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive, Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive and other worldwide environmental legislation has dramatically altered the competitive landscape in the US. Beginning July 1, 2006, for example, companies may no longer ship most electrics into the EU that contain certain restricted substances. This type of legislation has created: (1) Major disruptions and long cycle times in the electronic components supply chain (2) Quality and reliability issues due to significant changes in materials and manufacturing processes (3) Increased costs-scrap costs due to noncompliant inventory, increased cost of new compliant inventory which utilizes more expensive raw materials, increase in engineering design, verification and analysis time (4) More complex customer relations - Customers are requesting ldquogreenrdquo products before manufacturers are able to convert and verify long term reliability. Customers are also requesting ldquogreenrdquo products in areas not affected by the legislation (such as in monitoring and control applications). On the opposite end, high reliability customers do NOT want ldquogreenrdquo products precisely due to the quality and reliability issues they might face. (5) More complex supplier relationships - Suppliers have had to manage dual inventories of compliant and noncompliant parts and have had to set up elaborate documentation and verification systems to support the legislation. Suppliers and manufacturers have had to work closely together to share information and plan appropriately. (6) A shifting of purchasing away from US companies towards Asian/EU companies that are better prepared for the legislation. The legislation has driven significant changes to old ways of doing business and has forced quick adaptation and modification of processes to support the new global economy. This paper illustrates a case study of how National Instruments has navigated and adapted to these new requirements.
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Pub Date : 2006-08-01DOI: 10.1109/UTEMC.2006.5236187
W. Trybula
The existence of a technology-based business is predicated on providing the customers with the technology that satisfies their needs. The tracking and application of similar technology developments is not a difficult proposition. However, it is very easy to overlook the emergence of alternate technological solutions. While there is not a single predicator that will provide an insight to key emerging technologies, the tracking of trends provides a beginning. Understanding these trends and being able to sort wheat from chaff is the most difficult task. A significant portion of being able to determine exactly what is being manufactured. If a manufactured item can not be measured and quantified, the device can not really be manufactured.
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Pub Date : 2006-08-01DOI: 10.1109/UTEMC.2006.5236184
D. Welch, P. Hill
This paper describes the importance of clear messaging through effective public relations programs that enable technologists, scientists and other experts to distinctly articulate their vision, become industry leaders, advance their technologies, and provide organizations with a voice in the marketplace of ideas, facts, and viewpoints to aid informed public debate.
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Pub Date : 2006-08-01DOI: 10.1109/UTEMC.2006.5236178
R. Ibieta
The concept of action learning, while well known in educational circles is not widely used in corporate environments to infuse leadership skills in ldquohigh potentialrdquo or leadership ldquopipelinerdquo employees. The current trend for leadership development of these kinds of employees is usually that of theoretical instruction coupled with ldquoapprenticeshipsrdquo or mentoring by more senior employees. Action learning introduces a new tool for the development of these employees. After several years of successfully implementing an action learning program for its corporate leadership program, Intel's IT group Management and Leadership Development team decided to implement its own version. Essentially, the strategy involves taking a team of employees and posing a problem or challenge to them whose subject matter is not in their realm of expertise. This team then, who is "naive" to the problem to be solved, gets access to the foremost company experts in the specific subject matter at hand for consultations during the three-week period of the experience. During this period, the team also receives visits from respected leadership and innovation luminaries, both external and internal to the company. The participants' final set of recommendations are presented to the IT executive staff for their consideration on the final day of the program. The benefits of doing this are manifold; participants get a chance to work as a team to solve a complex issue that can benefit the corporation; they get access to some of the foremost leadership development experts in the field and they also get a chance to propose their ideas to the company's IT leadership team. The IT leadership team gets to observe pipeline candidates in action and also gets creative and innovative proposals to help them solve some of the organization's thorniest problems. Rabe, (2006) refers to this concept as "zero gravity thinking" where creative people who are not experts on a given subject matter can provide interesting and innovative ideas on that particular subject matter due to their naive approach to it. This paper describes the program itself, the results obtained by this program and possible avenues for future exploration of this concept as well as how this program approach could be used for other areas or disciplines.
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