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Monthly Archives: May 2011

IMS2011 starts this weekend

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

By Christina Nickolas This year’s IEEE Microwave Theory & Techniques Society (MTT-S) International Microwave Symposium (IMS2011)  starts Sunday, June 5, through Friday, June 10 and will be held in Baltimore, MD. IMS2011 will cover developments in microwave technology from nano devices to system applications with a Microwaves for the World theme. As always, technical paper [...]

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Our Bryan DeLuca supports IEEE Women-in-Engineering

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

By Christina Nickolas The topic of last weeks IEEE Women-in-Engineering meeting (Long Island section) was Linkedin Essentials and the speaker was our very own Managing Editor, Bryan DeLuca. It was held in Farmingdale at Telephonics and we had about 24 attendees – which for a non-technical seminar is considered a great number of people. The [...]

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NI will acquire AWR

Monday, May 23, 2011

During the past two months we have seen big companies acquiring other big companies, see http://www.eebeat.com/?p=3317. Today National Instruments announced that it has signed a definitive merger agreement under which NI will acquire AWR Corporation. Doesn’t seem that much will change, since it was noted that upon the closing of the transaction, AWR will continue [...]

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EUR 2,088 bonus for every ZMDI employee

Thursday, May 19, 2011

When was the last time you heard that an electronics manufacturing company gave out bonuses to all its employees? Seems like things are going well for ZMDI as they announced today that due to strong demand for energy-efficient products and solutions they showed significant growth in revenues and earnings  in fiscal-year 2010.  Based on this excellent [...]

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Display Week 2011 in LA

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Display Week 2011 is going on right now at the Los Angeles Convention Center. In its 49th year, the Society of Information Display conference is going strong with close to 7,000 attendees. There are 200 exhibitors this year and more than 200 technical paper presentations. Hot topics include new types of electronic paper, liquid crystal [...]

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IMS2011 adds graduate student challenge to schedule

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

IMS2011 ramps up conference competition by adding graduate student challenge to schedule. This new competition encourages graduate student members attending the conference to form teams, conduct brain storming meetings, develop new ideas and propose practical applications based on the papers presented at IMS. The winning team will be presented a $2,000 cash award at the [...]

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Yes, Virginia, we do manufacture stuff

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Two of the many companies I spoke with at the Embedded Systems Conference this week manufacture their products in the U.S. Yes it is true. The well known Supermicro Computer makes top-notch servers and blade computers along with chassis and power supplies for systems. They also make mother boards for embedded systems and all of [...]

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