Design News - July 7, 2003

Cover Story

Career Outlook: Mixed Signals for Engineers

On the positive side, roughly a quarter of design engineers who responded to our survey earned more than $80K last year. A luck 9% cracked $100K.

Departments

Ask
Ask The Search Engineer
BMOC
Info, Please
Calamities
The Case of the Amphibious Avalon
Designer's Corner
Submillimeter metal layering delivers design flexibility
Expo
Motion Control/Power Transmission
Electronics
Fastening/Joining/Assembly
Software/Hardware
Compact Cage Clamp Terminals are Easy to Connect
Flash
Electronics
New and notable Product Design
Gadget Freak
Our Everest Model has a Fireplace!
Mail
Readers Sound Off
My View
Monkey See, Monkey Do
Rant
Whatever You Do, Hang on to Your Engineers
The Next Generation
Engineering Students You'd Love to Hire
Seeing is Believing
Configurable Inspection Software for Product Design
Weblog
A Car to Bond With

Feature

From The Trenches
Another Day, Another Dollar
Hands On Review
Exclusive Hands-On Review Microcontroller Development Kits

News

Trends, Breakthroughs, Developments
eBay Revs Up Its Industrial Sales

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