#ssme engineers missing 7 basic skills
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp9PfqUQ8a4 TedX talk by David Goldberg
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New study released – Socio-economic impact of open service innovation
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/item-detail-dae.cfm?item_id=7195 This study assesses the economic and societal potential and impact of open service innovation approach in Europe. The study is coordinated and led by Logica business consulting. The consortium consists of IBM, Nokia, Intel, Novay and Innovation Value Institute. The study considers the role of users and citizens in open, user-driven service innovation, as …
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“i.am FIRST: Science is Rock & Roll” Mark your calendar for Sunday, August 14, to join us in watching “i.am FIRST: Science is Rock & Roll” – a back-to-school TV special about FIRST, airing on the ABC TV Network at 7 P.M. ET. Check out: http://iamfirst.dipdive.com/ ‘i.am FIRST – Science is Rock and Roll’ is …
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PICMET 12 announcement
PICMET’12 will be held on July 28 – August 2 in one of the most beautiful cities in the world, Vancouver, BC – Canada. The venue will be the Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel right in the middle of the city. The theme of PICMET’12 is “Technology Management for Emerging Technologies”. Managing emerging information technologies, bio …
Building Resilient Societies
Good read and picture http://tinyurl.com/3aw4tsb and relates to whole service http://tinyurl.com/3r983y2
Make A Job Don’t Take A Job
Entrepreneurship as key skill for this and future generations, read report http://tinyurl.com/26jf9k6
More robots than employees
Foxconn news http://tinyurl.com/3kx3xet Downward spiral for skills and jobs? http://tinyurl.com/tiz1 Or upward spiral? http://tinyurl.com/3ortgu4
Flying Robot Builders
Watch the video http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/19/university-researchers-create-networked-flying-robots-build-complex-structures/#
Proposed Alliance Could Create International Engineering “Meta-University.”
The Chronicle of Higher Education (7/10, Labi) reported, “If ambitious plans outlined” at a recent conference at Columbia University is realized, “several of the world’s leading universities could soon be collaborating on engineering-design projects and research activities, exchanging students and professors, and pooling their expertise to work more closely with industry.” During the conference, “deans …
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STEM Jobs Paying More, Growing Faster.
USA Today (7/14, Davidson) reports, “Jobs in science, technology, engineering and math fields pay an average 26% more than other occupations and grew three times faster the past decade, according to a Commerce Department study to be released today.” The Obama Administration “is citing the report partly to put numbers behind its push to invest …