Browse Topic: Career and professional development
Walking around the SAE WCX conference in Detroit this April and reading through the topic listings for the hundreds of sessions and thousands of presentations, I remembered why I enjoyed this conference so much. I used to attend as a reporter for other outlets, but I haven't been back to WCX since before the pandemic. It was different to walk the halls as editor of this magazine. What happens at WCX - and at dozens of mobility and transportation conferences around the world - is fascinating. I would bet big money that our readers agree. Still, sometimes it's difficult to translate the deeply technical work that makes up our days into something that piques the interest of those who don't spend inordinate amounts of time thinking about the “future of mobility.”
AI top of mind at SAE's annual technical mobility conference. The never-ending task of wrapping one's head around the auto industry continues at SAE's annual WCX technical mobility event in Detroit in April. A series of keynotes will discuss the growing impact of generative AI on the auto industry, why automotive workers have reason to see the upside of working alongside AI and how drivers will interact with AI in their nextgen vehicles. Jeremiah Golston, senior vice president and head of Automotive Engineering at Qualcomm, said he foresees heavy interest in generative artificial intelligence at WCX 2024.
A stretchable system that can harvest energy from human breathing and motion for use in wearable health-monitoring devices may be possible, according to an international team of researchers, led by Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, the Dorothy Quiggle Career Development Professor in Penn State’s department of engineering science and mechanics. The research team, with members from Penn State and Minjiang University and Nanjing University, both in China, recently published its results in Nano Energy.
By looking into the vehicle-infrastructure cooperation (VIC) which is oriented towards intelligent, networked and integrated development, this paper analyzes and proposes the essence and development direction of Intelligent Vehicle Infrastructure Cooperation Systems (I-VICS). With an in-depth analysis of technologies of core importance to VIC and influence factors that constrain VIC development as a whole, the paper comes up with a technological route for VIC, and identifies a direction for vehicle-infrastructure cooperative development that progresses from primary to intermediate cooperation, then to advanced cooperation, and finally to full-fledged cooperation. Policy recommendations aiming at strengthening top-level design, building an integrated vehicle-infrastructure-cloud platform, expediting independence of key techs, building robust standards and regulations for VIC, enhancing workforce development as well as greater efforts at market promotion are put forward.
As technology continues to evolve at a faster pace than ever, the automotive industry is discovering new ways to become adaptive and resilient. From mass deployment of electric vehicles and developmental timelines for autonomous vehicles to understating of global supply chain constraints impacting the automotive industry, mobility’s biggest hurdles are driving the engineering community to push the boundaries of innovation and find creative solutions. SAE’s WCX: World Congress Experience, being held from April 5-7, in Detroit, MI, will provide the community the opportunity to connect, learn, and collaborate on the biggest issues facing the industry to continue the technological advancements sweeping the mobility industry.
Office of Automation director Edward Straub describes the unit as “a first effort to deal with the broad and cross-disciplinary nature of automated vehicles.” Vital SAE activities under way include Standards Committees that are addressing aspects of automation; professional education, messaging and public education; and a growing number of industry and public demonstrations of AVs.
Meet Paul Mascarenas-SAE International's 2019 president. He's a staunch advocate for professional development for engineers, amid the mobility industry's transformation. Perhaps it's not surprising that someone who joined a professional engineering society at age 16 would eventually lead one. And so, Paul Mascarenas seems an ideal fit as SAE International's 2019 president. It's been more than 30 years since he joined the Institution of Mechanical Engineers as a student in his native Britain. Since then, Mascarenas has distinguished himself in many industry-leadership roles, including chief technical officer at Ford Motor Co. from 2011 to 2014.
ABSTRACT The IGVC offers a design experience that is at the very cutting edge of engineering education. It is multidisciplinary, theory-based, hands-on, team implemented, outcome assessed, and based on product realization. It encompasses the very latest technologies impacting industrial development and taps subjects of high interest to students. Design and construction of an Intelligent Vehicle fits well in a two semester senior year design capstone course, or an extracurricular activity earning design credit. The deadline of an end-of-term competition is a real-world constraint that includes the excitement of potential winning recognition and financial gain. Students at all levels of undergraduate and graduate education can contribute to the team effort, and those at the lower levels benefit greatly from the experience and mentoring of those at higher levels. Team organization and leadership are practiced, and there are even roles for team members from business and engineering management, language and graphic arts, and public relations. Students solicit and interact with industrial sponsors who provide component hardware and advice, and in that way get an inside view of industrial design and opportunities for employment.
Integrated controls for commercial dynamometers do not have appropriate characteristics to perform research and teaching tasks. These are developed to perform quick tests and its logic is prepared to obtaining the information in accordance with the technical standards. This way, the use for research is hindered because it does not have an interface that allows a refinement to the desired data ranges, t data sampling and the type of load that is applied. Its use for teaching is limited because these "standard" controls does not allow to analyze or to determine engines characteristics that are not covered through tests specified by the standards, so the use of this tool as an important part in professional training formed by the institution. The development of a system control to the electromagnetic brake and capture of torque and rotation data will allow better use of dynamometers for research and teaching, providing to the students the knowledge of the control system itself and data acquisition where parameters such as temperature and pressure can be added, improving the accuracy of torque and power measurements. This system will be made available to other educational and research institutions interested in the use of a control and data acquisition system designed for teaching and research in the engine area, with a low cost of development and operation.
Very strong role models who have a marked enthusiasm for their subject are needed at every point along an employee's education and work career. THERE HAS PROBABLY NEVER BEEN SUCH A DEMAND for professionally qualified engineers, and yet both the number and diversity of people entering the profession continue to decline. Worldwide, there are very many and diverse initiatives to improve the situation-some generally encouraging interest in the profession, and others targeting specific audiences. There have been some local successes, but the overall picture remains discouraging. For a long time, there has been a growing awareness of a diminishing of interest in the engineering profession on the part of potential students. The principal hypothesis is that the image of the profession is poor, requiring hard work to qualify but delivering only a modest reward. Other hypotheses include a lack of flair in the management of young engineers that limits their experience rather than creating a vision.
There has probably never been such a demand for professionally qualified engineers, and yet both the number and diversity of people entering the profession continue to decline. Worldwide, there are very many initiatives - some generally encouraging interest in the profession, and others targeting specific audiences. The reports speak of local success, but the overall picture remains discouraging. In this paper we focus on the “pipeline” from primary education through to the transition from graduate engineer into an experienced member of engineering staff. We have based the discussion on both the presentations and comments made during a panel discussion held at the 2013 SAE International Congress. The paper is intended as a summary of the points raised during that discussion and, we hope proves to be starting point for further investigation and analysis. Of particular note is the sheer diversity of initiatives, and the pressing need for role models and mentoring. The experience of engineers during the early part of their career continues to be highly variable and even at this late stage there is a talent drain from the profession and diminishing diversity.
Longtime GM engineering executive and STEM education supporter Daniel M. Hancock brings a focused approach to his term as SAE International President. “Vision” and “focus” are two words most closely associated with the field of optometry, but they have had a profound impact on the engineering career of SAE International's 2014 President Daniel M. Hancock. If not for a slight change in his vision as a teenager, Hancock, who went on to serve in multiple leadership roles over the course of 43 years at General Motors, may have seen his career take off in a completely different direction. “I had a presidential appointment to the Naval Academy in high school, and it was during the Vietnam War, so they wanted most of their Naval Academy graduates to become Navy pilots,” Hancock recalled. “You had to have 20-20 vision uncorrected, and my vision changed at the last minute, and I could no longer qualify physically. I had no other schools planned, but I was able to get an interview at Allison Transmission, a division of GM, and I took a preliminary engineering aptitude test, did well on it, and they accepted me into their co-op program at General Motors Institute (now Kettering University).”
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