- This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech career development company Parsity and delivered to your inbox for free!If you have kids, they’re probably back in school right now after the summer break. Mine are too.My kids […]
- Many youngsters fascinated by exploring outer space dream of becoming an astronaut, but few do. One who had the right stuff is Pedro Duque, who was Spain’s first astronaut. The aeronautics engineer flew aboard the space shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station.After retiring as an astronaut, he headed Spain’s Ministry of Science, Innovation, and […]
- Throughout her career, roboticist Barbara Mazzolai has turned to nature for inspiration. Now she wants to ensure the technology she builds gives back to the environment, too.After starting her career as a biologist, a chance opportunity saw Mazzolai switch streams to engineering and become an early pioneer of bioinspired robotics. Building on her knowledge of […]
- Transitioning from years of working in a senior technical or executive role to a leadership position is one of the most challenging phases of a STEM career. It requires moving away from making decisions on your own to mentoring others, making strategic decisions for the organization, and collaborating with coworkers from different generations.The shift in […]
- Over the last 19 months, the U.S. federal government has created a series of high-profile barriers to legal immigration by highly-skilled students and workers: Cancelling visa extensions, cutting interview opportunities, and attempting to charge US $100,000 or more for certain immigrant visas. “Whether they go into effect or not, it’s really an unrelenting barrage of […]
