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Moving into management? Three years ago, when Edwin De Souza became an engineering manager at National Semiconductor, he found himself in a somewhat awkward position: 'I was suddenly managing engineers [...]

'90s demographics compel engineers to get involved Companies and designers rally to nurture budding engineering talent Ever since the appearance of William Johnson and Arnold Packer's Hudson Institute Workforce 2000 [...]

In the late 1960s, I was an analog-circuit designer for RCA ('the trusted name in electronics') when TTL and monolithic op amps came along. The leader of the digital-circuits group [...]

Although US involvement in the HDTV industry is being widely discussed, job opportunities in the industry have not yet opened up. This is because product development in the area has not yet started. Companies are positioning themselves to prepare for HDTV and trying to determine what kind of products they will be producing. Some exceptions to this, however, are General Instrument of Hatboro, PA, which is looking for engineers to help develop products, and California Micro Devices Vanguard Semiconductor Division, which is looking for engineers to work on HDTV-related products. Philips Consumer Electronics Co is looking for engineers to work on color television systems and large-signal video designs. Analysts say that even if the US does develop a strong presence in the industry, opportunities in HDTV may be rare, since product development tasks will probably be given to the same engineers who have been involved in research for the past few years., HDTV prompts scattered hiring SAN JOSE, CA--Although talk of US participation in the high-definition-television (HDTV) industry in everywhere, job opportunities within that sprouting industry are not. The reason is that, [...]