I have blogged frequently on the workforce challenges facing the utility industry resulting from accelerating retirement among engineers and skilled workers and by the technology transformation associated with the smart grid. Community colleges in partnership […]
In the next decade, the U.S. electricity grid will change more then it has in the last 100 years. Aging infrastructure, distributed generation integrating renewable energy sources, smart grid and net zero energy buildings will […]
The first major update to national science teaching standards in 15 years includes for the first time the science of human-driven climate change. The standards are based on a National Academy of Sciences report and […]
I blogged previously about an interesting analysis of job creation by the “App Economy” has been conducted for TechNet by Dr.Michael Mandel of South Mountain Economics LLC. The Technet analysis suggests that there were 155,000 tech […]
The Gandalf Group conducts a quarterly C-Suite survey of corporate executives across Canada sponsored by KPMG. 151 C-level executives were interviewed between February 10th and 27th, 2012. Labour challenges The survey found that most of […]
The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) conducts an annual survey of starting salaries of U.S. college graduates by compiling data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. Census Bureau, and a […]
Next week is Autodesk University in Las Vegas, which I am looking forward to especially for the utility-related courses and labs. But if you can’t be there is person, 200 classes in English, Spanish, and […]
Malaysia expects that 70% of its inhabitants will be living in urban environments by 2020. Last year Malaysia released its 10th Malaysia Plan (10MP), which focuses on developing infrastructure to improve productivity and making the […]