A coincidence for the TEE conference…. Ireland Opening “Innovation Center” In Silicon Valley. The San Jose Mercury News (3/15, Carey) reports, “Ireland stepped up its already strong relationship with Silicon Valley on Sunday by opening an ‘innovation center’ in downtown San Jose that it hopes will help revive the battered Irish economy.” Ireland is “hoping …
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“As the dominant applied science in industry, engineering quickly emerged as a major recruiting ground for the applied science of management; and the link is still close today — reflected in an increasing tendency to combine the two in specialized M.B.A. and recruitment programs. ” “Reflecting that, 70 percent of the school’s (MIT Sloan) M.B.A. …
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The PSM is a relatively new graduate degree, just over a decade old, designed to provide students with advanced training in the sciences without a Ph.D. and pertinent business skills without an M.B.A. These programs also emphasize written and verbal skills in which employers say they find traditional science students deficient. Some examples of fields …
http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/career-articles-best_paying_degrees_in_2010-1173 Top-Paid Bachelor’s Degrees Source: Winter 2010 Salary Survey, National Association of Colleges and Employers. 1. Major: Petroleum Engineering Average Salary Offer: $86,220 2. Major: Chemical Engineering Average Salary Offer: $65,142 3. Major: Mining & Mineral Engineering (including Geological) Average Salary Offer: $64,552 4. Major: Computer Science Average Salary Offer: $61,205 5. Major: Computer Engineering …
Doreen Edwards, new dean of Alfred U.’s engineering school: Students in the discipline “need a better sense of business. They need to understand different cultures. … They need a better understanding of the world in general.” From the Chronicle of Higher Education Doreen Edwards, the first female dean of Alfred University’s engineering school, encourages the …
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ServDes.2010 ExChanging Knowledge 1-3 December, Linköping, Sweden http://www.servdes.org/
December 7 – 10 2010, San Francisco, California, USA www.icsoc.org IMPORTANT DATES Research and Industry Papers: Abstract due: June 1, 2010 Full paper due: June 7, 2010 Notification: July 14, 2010 Camera ready due: August 23, 2010 TOPICS OF INTEREST ICSOC 2010 seeks outstanding, original contributions, including solid theoretical and empirical evaluations as well as …
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Call for Paper: PACIS 2010, Taipei, Taiwan The 14th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems PACIS 2010 (http://www.pacis2010.org/) will be held in Taipei, Taiwan on July 9-12, 2010 with the theme “Service Science in Information Systems Research.” Submission deadline: Mar 8th, 2010
http://www.sersci.com/magazine/v1n4/ From Robin Qiu “I am very pleased to announce the release of the 4th issue of <<Service Science>>. All published papers are accessible and downloadable by interested readers. A reader/author (with an approved account after registration) can make comments and have direct discussions with the author(s) and other readers through the Wiki. ” http://www.sersci.com/ServiceScience/magazine_details.php?id=4 …