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When engineers have advanced to a certain level in their career, they may find they have to decide whether it’s worth investing the considerable amount of time, money and effort that’s needed to obtain their Professional Engineer license. This article from Harvard Business Review outlines the health, wealth and social benefits of continually learning and developing, which include better salaries, warding off cognitive decline and lowering stress levels. But there’s no getting around the fact that PE licenses are hard work; you need to complete a four-year degree program, learn for four years under a qualified PE and pass two additional exams in order to get one in the first place. This can be within a job in industry but if you think that one day you might like to pursue a career in engineering education, then it’s a legal requirement in many states that only licensed engineers can do so.

The funders on Indigogo were willing to believe in it though, particularly as the company is donating all profits to Water for Africa, and the project exceeded its funding goal, raising just under £40K to buy new manufacturing equipment. The plastic plant growing pots seen in gardens all over the world are also on their way out and The Center for Bioplastics and Biocomposites (CB2) have developed a natural alternative that also fertilizes the plants that grow in them. One of theme, ARBOFORM®, is a biodegradable liquid wood product they have developed by mixing lignin, a readily available by-product of the pulp industry, with flax, hemp, or other fibre plants, and natural additives. Alongside developing alternatives to single-use plastic bottles and drinking straws, one of the most urgent issues engineers are looking to resolve is cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) and the other four large plastic accumulation zones littering the oceans.

Ladah puts the opportunity for what he calls “new-collar jobs” in perspective: “About half a million technology jobs go unfilled in the U. S., and it’s because employers can’t find what they’re looking for,” he said. Through focused initiatives in education, investment and internship programs for high school and community college students, our aim is to attract a diversified talent pool to technology careers like engineering and computer science,” said Danielle Brown, VP of human resources and chief diversity and inclusion officer at Intel. Gary Burtless, a senior researcher at the Brookings Institute, told Fast Company that one of the best ways to fill the technology pipeline in today’s marketplace is to develop more skills-based training programs. According to a Harvard Business School/Accenture survey, “employers pay more, often significantly more, for college graduates to do jobs also filled by non-degree holders — without getting any material improvement in productivity.

Responsibilities include containing it as quickly as possible, repairing the breach (remediation), restoring the affected IT systems and then taking steps to make sure systems are fully protected. Per the Modis 2018 Salary Guide, the median total cash compensation for computer security professionals ranges from $68,152 for a cybersecurity analyst to $113,918 for an information security analyst. The most commonly required certifications are Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), as well as those from GIAC. The Dept. of Homeland Security recently reported close to half a million cybersecurity-related job openings in the United States, according to Cyber Defense Magazine, and another 1.8 million cybersecurity pros will be needed by 2022.