Wind energy startups chase mile-high power (CNN Money) If you want to see the future of wind energy, look up. |
Salary Survey: Notes from a recent engineering graduate (EETimes) Months after graduating with a degree in aviation engineering in the United Kingdom, this young engineer is grappling with the difficult decisions of charting a career and experiencing firsthand both the impact of globalization on the profession and the downturn in the world economy. |
Layton accepts city manager job, enters contract negotiations (The Wichita Eagle) Robert Layton has said he will accept the city manager job in Wichita, Mayor Carl Brewer said today, ending widespread speculation that Layton might reject the post after City Council members selected him on the slimmest of margins. The vote, on Nov. 18, was 4-3 to hire Layton. "I'm excited about the opportunity," Layton said in a statement released by the city. "I'm eager to move forward ... |
NATCA voices criticism of FAA plan to move engineers (Alaska Journal of Commerce) A Federal Aviation Administration consolidation plan aimed at centralizing its employees may force the transfer of as many as 46 engineers, whose jobs are related to air traffic control, from Alaska to the Lower 48. |
Thursday's news and tips (Investors Chronicle) ¦ Rolls-Royce and French group Areva are to work together on jointly agreed programmes that will see the first new nuclear reactors built in the UK for over 20 years. |
Engineers, tech workers ratify Boeing labor contracts (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) Nearly 21,000 engineers and technical workers for The Boeing Co. have approved new labor contracts that will give them more say in the company's outsourcing decisions and the use of contract workers. |
Vietnam vet has an improbable reunion with his old helicopter (The Buffalo News) “I missed you.” |
Families' last remaining hope (Stuff) The only remaining hope for the families of the Kiwis killed in the Air New Zealand crash off the coast of France is that they will be able to bring their loved ones home. |
Second tragedy for woman (Otago Daily Times) The presumed death of Christchurch aircraft engineer Noel Marsh in the Air New Zealand Airbus A320 crash off the coast of southern France yesterday is an especially cruel blow for his grieving family - it is understood Mr Marsh's wife is seven months' pregnant. |
Experts at a loss to explain Airbus tragedy (Stuff) EFFORTS TO explain the mystery crash of the Air New Zealand Airbus in France may take months as experts rule out the most likely causes for its abrupt plunge into the Mediterranean Sea. Air New Zealand chief executive Rob Fyfe is due in Perpignan today with a support crew and relatives of one of the five New Zealanders killed, vowing to "bring our team home". |