PPT Presentation of Understanding Engineers

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Ue Final.Presentation

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Interview with Boris

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One Chance for a Positive New Employee Experience

"It’s been proven that happy employees are more productive employees. So, if you’re looking to drive bottom line results with state of the art talent management tactics, it’s time to get “onboard.”"

Read more about how best to utlize information technology to standardize, streamline, track, and coordinate the onboarding process to make your company’s most recent hires feel valued and supported. Here

A History of Information Technology and Systems

Check out the timeline of Information Technology.

Four basic periods
Characterized by a principal technology used to solve the input, processing, output and communication problems of the time:

Premechanical,
Mechanical,
Electromechanical, and
Electronic

Reflection on Ray Price's Presentation

Professor Raymond L. Price, from the college of engineering, at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign recently lectured on tech visionaries and implications for HR professionals. During his lecture he illustrated how HP's culture of being engineering led versus business led fostered an environment where serial innovators and technical visionaries could create market leading products. His model describing how organizations are either enhancers or creators helps explain why 90% of companies fall into the enhancement category which allows for cheaper, faster and sometimes better products rather than focusing on creating, like HP, where extended time, money and other resources are spent to create products. Professor Price’s hour glass model presents steps on how companies can become more innovative and that being more innovative is what's necessary to set a company apart.

The implications for HR, as he explains in his lecture, will be to help organizations transform to engineering led companies by developing methods to recognize, recruit and retain innovative talent while creating an environment where they can be nurtured and allowed to flourish for the success of the company.

Read more about his new book, the HP Phenomenon.

Grand Challenges - Engineering Challenges

Grand Challenges - Engineering Challenges

Engineering Challenges of the 21st century.

In the book Engineering and the Mind’s Eye, chapter 6 discusses the origins of engineering, the need for experience and a PHd, the declining ability of design, gov’t support of engineering and the rise of engineering technology schools and its effect on the discipline. In another book, Revolt of the Engineers, chapter 7 and 8 discuss engineering reform and revolt surrounding membership and ownership when battling large enterprises that applied engineers as opposed to those with more theoretical education.

Despite the sea of changes the profession has gone to assert status, ownership and membership I believe personal views of status, ownership and membership of engineers and the engineering profession will always be overshadowed by the fundamental question of what societal problems need solving and how can engineers solve them.

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