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The Business Value of the Social-Engineer Phishing Service – Security Boulevard
Phishing attacks continue to plague organizations across the globe with great success, but why?
Cybercriminals are targeting the human element of organizations. Additionally, they are developing techniques to use an organizations employees as the first point of entry. According to the 2021 Verizon DBIR report, of the 3,841 security breaches reported using social engineering, phishing was the key vector for over 80% of them. The 2021 Proof Point State of the Phish report states that 66% of organizations saw targeted phishing attempts in 2020, showing that no corporation is immune to phishing attacks. For example, the SANS Institute, a provider of cybersecurity training and certification services, lost over 28,000 items of personally identifiable information (PII) in a data breach that occurred after a staff member fell victim to a phishing attack. We share these statistics to highlight the business value of the Social-Engineer Phishing Service (SEPS). The goal of this service is to train your employees to become your companys first line of defense
Gone are the days when phishing emails consisted of broken English and poor grammar. Or a simple click now to win these outrageous prize offerings. In fact, skilled phishers now send highly sophisticated emails that appear to be from a legitimate source. For example, the most effective phishing emails are now sent from a fellow employee, a specific department such as HR, or a third-party partner. They leverage everything from an organizations logo and layout to internal lingo. Highly targeted spear-phishing attacks go after a specific individuals personal interests. These days, phishing emails are so good that they establish immediate credibility, and users dont think twice before acting. One of our clients told us how they were duped by the attackers sending emails from their very own domain! By then its too late.
Its time for businesses to take a page from martial arts when it comes to training for security breaches. By putting effort into the way employees are trained, organizations equip their employees with the skills to help defend the organizations intangible assets.
In martial arts, sparring is a mechanism for testing techniques learned in the studio. A martial arts practitioner may master a technique while standing still. But find the technique much more difficult to execute when facing a moving opponent. When an individual experiences a real-world attack, they go into fight or flight mode. Someone who masters martial arts practices, but has never executed against a determined aggressor, may find those skills difficult to apply in the heat of the moment. This can be likened to a well-crafted phishing email. An employee may know better. But, what will the employee do if faced with an authentic-looking email sent from an internal source that confirms submission of incorrect information? The individuals initial reaction may be to respond and hand over the correct data.
In sparring, some techniques work well when combating tall people. However, those same techniques arent as effective when combating a compact and robust individual. Martial artists must learn to continually adapt. Sparring enables martial artists to become confident with learned techniques. In addition, it affords them the opportunity to grow from actual mistakes. An organization may stress the importance of security. However, until employees face a believable attack vector, they will not learn how to adequately respond.
Military experts train their soldiers to fight in a worst-case scenario. Similarly, organizations should train and educate staff to detect social engineering attacks to improve overall security. The concept of phishing your own employees has been around for years. However, the concept of a customized and continuous Phishing Service is unique.
From start to finish, Social-Engineer helps an organizations most unpredictable asset (their people) become the first line of defense. If an employee understands the value of reporting suspicious activity to their internal security department, they will likely react to real-world scenarios the same way. Rather than simply training staff to look for suspicious activity, the Social-Engineer team teaches users to apply critical thinking, to recognize phishing emails, and how to properly report and respond to them. Its important for employees to understand the assets they are responsible for protecting and how they can better protect them. Security starts with each individual user.
By sending an initial wave of well-crafted phishing emails, Social-Engineer creates a baseline for an organizations susceptibility to these types of attacks. From there, our team conducts a thorough debrief, focusing on remediation and education. We repeat this process with increasingly sophisticated phishing awareness education. By conducting ongoing and regular phishing campaigns, organizations can quickly develop a culture of phishing awareness and education. Our service can also provide advanced metrics, such as click and reporting rates, repeat offenders, and trend data in order to identify specific areas of improvement and, eventually, ROI.
When it comes down to it, employees who know they are being tested are more apt to report and respond appropriately to questionable emails and activity. By keeping employees on their toes, organizations vastly improve their overall security posture. Organizations who have implemented our SEPS program have experienced:
The chart below illustrates data from one of our clients who implemented SEPS. Prior to working with Social-Engineer, this organization was running a phishing education program on their own, using a popular phishing tool. They were sending out regular emails and testing their whole population. On the surface, everything was the way it should be for a phishing program. However, despite their efforts, the organization simply did not experience the results they thought they would. After one year of trudging through it on their own, they contacted Social-Engineer to offer assistance in enhancing their program. After 6 months in the SEPS program, the organization continued to experience tremendous results.
The below chart demonstrates the tremendous business value of the Social-Engineer phishing service even after just one months time. Most noticeable was an increase in recognition of suspicious emails over the entire population.
Businesses spend hundreds of thousands on IDS systems, firewalls, and other protection mechanisms to monitor the network, but one skilled phishing attack can lead to total devastation without the attacker having to hack one thing. Its a matter of when, not if, your organization will be targeted. Implementing a well-managed phishing and education program is a cost-effective mechanism for preparing your employees for real-world situations and keeping your business out of the headlines. The business value of the Social-Engineer Phishing Service is worth investigating. For more information please visit https://www.social-engineer.com/services/se-phishing-service/.
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Aerospace engineering professor emeritus receives national recognition for career achievement | The University of Kansas – KU Today
LAWRENCE A longtime University of Kansas professor has been honored with an award to recognize his career achievements in aerospace engineering education.
Saeed Farokhi, professor emeritus of aerospace engineering, is the 2021 recipient of the J. Leland Atwood Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the American Society for Engineering Education. The honor is bestowed annually upon an aerospace engineering educator in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession.
Dr. Farokhi has been a distinguished and exemplary member of our engineering family, said Rick Hale, chair of KUs aerospace engineering program.
Its a humbling experience it is an honor for the institution I serve, and all the colleagues and friends who contributed to it, said Farokhi, who officially retired from KU in December 2019. Its a collective award; its not just personal. One doesnt work in a silo we all contribute to each other, team teaching and learning from each other.
Farokhi started his KU career in May 1984 after a stint in the private sector as a design and development engineer for Brown, Boveri & Co. in Switzerland. During his time at KU, Farokhi served as director of Flight Research Laboratory for five years, acting chair of the department in fall 1991, director of the graduate division for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and associate dean for the graduate school before returning to teaching in 2012 as the John E. and Winifred Sharp Teaching Professor in the School of Engineering. He has been elected a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, as well as an associate fellow of the AIAA. He also served as president of Sigma Gamma Tau, an honor society for aerospace engineering.
He was also recognized repeatedly for his work in the classroom. He was a recipient of the Annual Celebration of Teaching Award, voted upon by graduate student representatives, in 2007, as well as the Henry E. Gould Award for Distinguished Service to Undergraduate Engineering education in 1997.
Students maintain a deep respect and affection for Saeed, and for good reason, Hale wrote in the nomination letter. His undergraduate and graduate students are well-placed in industry, academia and government service, and I have never met one of his former students who do not rave about the educational foundation they received from Dr. Farokhi.
Farokhi also advised a number of teams that won awards in AIAAs annual student propulsion design competition, chaired or co-chaired more than 150 theses and dissertations, and mentored dozens of undergraduate research projects.
He sets a very high bar for performance, he leads by example, and he offers availability above and beyond expectations to mentor students to reach their full potential, Hale wrote.
Farokhi was grateful for the latest recognition.
It means everything, he said. KU gave me an opportunity to pursue my passion in research, my passion in teaching. KU offered me fantastic students who were as eager sometimes more eager to learn as myself. And KU gave me the opportunity to work with some of the best talent, as far as colleagues are concerned.
Farokhi has remained busy in retirement continuing to work on research and filing new patents; updating his book, Aircraft Propulsion, which is used as a textbook in many aerospace engineering classes; and co-chairing the dissertations of two doctoral students. He is keeping busy with my academic love of life.
Its a big part of my life, a big part of my heart, he said. I love KU.
The Atwood Award, endowed by Rockwell Collins, consists of an honorarium and a certificate presented by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) at their summer conference. He will also be recognized at an awards ceremony at the 2022 AIAA SciTech Forum, January 3-7, 2022, in San Diego.
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Construction on the double – Nuclear Engineering
Systems engineering is at the heart of the modular construction that will be applied to SMRs, says Andrew Robb and in future a digital twin will keep it current.
Image: Assystem is pairing its digital and systems engineering expertise to bring a version of model-based systems engineering to the SMR programme
SYSTEMS ENGINEERING IS NOT A new approach. It is widely adopted in the mass-production practices of the aerospace and automotive industries, where it is used to model the complex real-world problems of modular vehicle construction. Now the UK nuclear industry is utilising the methodology as part of its Small Modular Reactor (SMR) programme.
The UKSMR Consortium is working with partners and the UK government to secure a commitment for a fleet of factory built 440MWe nuclear power stations, to be operational within a decade.
The consortium members are Assystem, Atkins, BAM Nuttall, Jacobs, Laing ORourke, National Nuclear Laboratory, Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, Rolls-Royce and TWI. The current phase of the programme has been jointly funded by all consortium members and UK Research and Innovation.
The planned fleet of up to 16 reactors will use modular technology designed for factory fabrication, easier transportation and on-site assembly.
The modular design is central to the power station, not only for the reactor components but for the construction of the entire plant. The approach aims to reduce costs by reducing on-site build time.
Joining the Consortium in 2019, Assystem brought its expertise in systems engineering to the programmes turbine island, cooling water island and balance of plant projects. It is in these areas that the rigours and methodology of systems engineering can break down the complexities of the project and make a much quicker outcome more likely.
Andrew Robb is principal engineer and lead for the Assystem Systems Engineering team currently undertaking the concept design of the UK SMR. He says, Systemsengineering manages data and breaks down the complexities of the project, or product, the purpose of which is to reduce the risk of what you are trying to deliver. When risk is reduced, the likelihood of a successful outcome is increased.
Eventually, a Digital Twin will be created that will present all systems in a digital form, with all associated data linked to that element. Paramount to future SMR production, a Digital Twin makes available all the data and records that accompany a product makes it possible to interrogate any part of the design in the form of a 3D model. Should a design change be required, having that information attached to a 3D CAD model allows for greater understanding of the original rationale behind design choices.
Assystem is pairing its digital and systems engineering expertise to bring a version of model-based systems engineering (MBSE) to the SMR programme. This systems engineering methodology, focuses on creating and exploiting domain models as the primary means of information exchange between engineers. This in turn improves the economics of series production, shortens construction times and streamlines project-related communications.
In this way, designs for the next power station will have a traceable and logically structured data set that matches the visible product and lives with it throughout its full life cycle. This is a huge advantage in a very competitive market.
The project moves into a new phase in May 2021. The aim is to deploy first-of-a-kind UK SMRs in the UK in the early 2030s.
Author details: Andrew Robb is Principal engineer and lead for the Assystem Systems Engineering team
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F1 career: How an Indian engineering grad landed this job – Study International News
Abhijit Dekas initial goal was to shoot for the moon. Drawn by everything Italy had to offer, The Northeastern Indian signed up for a degree in aerospace engineering at the University of Bologna. After he graduated, he moved to Rome to seek a job in this field. The six-month search proved futile at first.
When Deka moved back to Bologna, it was for a job unrelated to his field but it turned out to be no less exciting. He is now involved in the R&D of F1 racing, with the added bonus of working closely with the Ferrari F1 racing team. This has never been my dream, but frankly I do feel like I am living in one, he shares.
I have always been passionate about aerospace flight, in general, is fascinating to me, he says. Source: Abhijit Deka
We caught up with Deka to learn more about his degree, his F1 career and what la dolce vite in Italy is all about:
Three main reasons: the travel opportunity, passion for the international lifestyle and how economical it was compared to other programmes around the world. I have always been passionate about aerospace flight, in general, is fascinating to me.
Space exploration always brings a sense of euphoria so naturally, I should have studied aerospace for my bachelors. However, due to prevailing circumstances, the field I ended up choosing was mechanical engineering.
Contrary to what people may think, education in Europe can be considerably cheaper than in India and many non-European countries, provided you qualify for scholarships. Thats exactly what happened to me. Besides, the prestige of the University of Bologna being the oldest in the world, drew me in.
The crown jewel for Deka would definitely be Italys pristine beaches with silky sand. Here, he found that its actually a punishable offence to take Sardinian sand out of Sardinia. Source: Abhijit Deka
Additionally, like many others, I wanted to see the world. Studying and working in Europe makes this a lot easier economically and geographically. Having a Schengen visa allows free and unrestricted movement to other continents (across 26 European countries).
I consider the country very unique in the sense that despite being a very small country, it has many contrasting aspects to offer. This ranges from incredible architecture, mountains, beaches, historic sites, and so forth.
This is why I think it is also so popular among tourists because it can satisfy everyones travel choices. Another thing I like about Italy is the food. Food is a very serious business for Italians and that profoundly reflects in their soul-satisfying dishes. The social life here is considerably less sophisticated than the rest of Europe, so coming from India, it works quite well for me.
After I graduated, I shifted to Rome because I thought it would be comparatively easier to find a job in a bigger city. However, I was proved wrong. Like many other countries, its quite difficult to find a job as a fresher in Italy.
More so if youre a foreigner who doesnt speak Italian. After six months of searching, I got a job in a company in Bologna so I moved back. It wasnt really aligned to my field but as I continued working, I started liking it.
My work involves research, development and analysis in the field of F1 racing and its quite exciting. The best part of it is that I get to work closely with the Ferrari F1 racing team which brings a sense of pride to the role.
This has never been my dream, but frankly I do feel like I am living in one. Besides this role, I am also working on a research project with my professor on plasma thrusters for spacecraft propulsion. Through this research we hope to establish new theories to improve plasma propulsion.
Firstly, it has a great balance between being a sprawling city and having a firm hold on its history. Secondly, Bolognese food is famous all over the world and what better place to stay if youre a food fanatic? Lastly, Bologna being in nearly the centre-North of Italy gives you easy access to the rest of Europe.
Bologna is home to the oldest university in the world. Source: Abhijit Deka
Its quite challenging to single out one such experience. But if I had to, it would be my visit to Sardinia, an island in the south which was a truly ethereal experience. I want to go back every summer!
It has some of the best beaches in the world along with great trekking routes and delicious food. The crown jewel would definitely be the beaches though which are kept really clean and are famous for the silky sand. Its actually a punishable offence to take Sardinian sand out of Sardinia!
I come from the Northeast of India which is mostly known for its rich, natural flora and fauna. Its comparatively less industrialised and consequently less polluted. Youd need to visit the Kaziranga National Park world heritage site that houses rare animals and is famous for the Asian one-horned rhinoceros.
Youd also need to visit Cherrapunji, one of the wettest places on earth, which has many serene lakes and beautiful untouched forests for hiking. A boat trip across the Dawki Lake can be a memorable experience as well.
Last but not least, Tawang at 3,000 metres is a complete snow-covered paradise. The town there reflects the Buddhist culture and traditions. It also has the largest monastery in India that dates back to the 1600s.
Having lived here quite some time now, I have explored a fair bit of the Emilia Romagna region. Ive grown a special appreciation for the great dining experiences the region has to offer. The borders between Emilia Romagna and Tuscany are full of vineyards and great food.
The food is special because its straight from the farm. A typical experience would be to sit among the vines and enjoy the pleasant view with delicious food paired with the most delicious wines. Although it might sound like your usual food-and-wine day out, each new place has its own unique vibe and all of that makes each experience stand out.
India is too big to have common local food so Ill talk about my region where its Indian and Burmese influenced. Various fish preparations are quite popular due to the presence of the Brahmaputra River. Pork preparations have a special place in the hearts of my people and its usually mixed with green leaves and herbs for dishes. Rice is a staple too it absorbs the flavour of the many ingredients of the curries and sauces.
Italys pork preparations are some of the best in the world, Deka says. Source: Abhijit Deka
Italy is a paradise for meat and cheese lovers where the local food is usually subtle and has few but distinct flavours. Their pork preparations are some of the best in the world. Of course Italian wine, pizzas and pastas are world famous.
What I can say is that if theres any country that can offer you food so great that it wont make you miss home so much, it would be Italy. My favourite would be the porchetta (a whole pig spiced with herbs and slow-cooked). My least favourite (illegal but popular in Sardinia) would be the casu martzu (a cheese that has live maggots).
In terms of linguistic barriers, communication would be a problem in small Italian towns. While in big cities (like Rome or Milan) English is quite prevalent. People in the northern regions speak comparatively better English.
I must mention that sign language is quite a thing in Italy and you can usually get by with pointing out things you need. However, if you want to know the ingredients of say a food dish, it might be tricky as many Italian foods have no English equivalent.
Ordering food online is just as easy as any country that has such services. To strike up casual conversations with older locals is quite hard if you dont know Italian. The younger generation are quite okay with English and generally seem to be interested in talking to foreigners.
I have seen almost everything the city has to offer. Some of the most famous being the Piazza Maggiore (city centre) which has the San Petronio Church from the 1300s. The piazza also had the famous Fontana di Nettuno (Fountain of Neptune) which was built in the 1500s and the trident in the statue later became the emblem of Maserati.
Nearby, there is also Due Torri (the tower couple). One of the tallest towers of those times and till date offers the best birds eye view of the city. These towers have now become an icon. Besides this, the University of Bologna itself is a cultural and social marvel.
The Bologna public library is an attraction on its own. Source: Abhijit Deka
Bologna is famous for its porticos (arched structures outside the main building) which spread around the city for about 40 kilometres. They have historically provided people refuge from the natural elements and add to the spectacular beauty of the city.
These sites prove how carefully the Italians have preserved their history. If someone buys a house that has been listed as historical, they would be forbidden to change the external structure. This has led to the preservation of the architectural integrity of Bologna and still looks the same compared to the 1800s.
I miss my family and friends a lot but that cant be substituted. Besides that, I miss food from home which made me learn to cook Indian food. The non-European restaurants in Italy are pretty sub-standard so if you miss food from your home country, the best option would be to learn how to make it yourself.
I miss the social life I had in India which was a challenge to recreate in Italy. I substituted that with outdoor activities. This doesnt mean you cant have a fulfilling social life in Italy, it just takes longer and might not be the same as back home.
For aspiring students, I would say to have an open mind. Be acceptable and adaptable to rapidly changing situations (whether good or bad). Be aware that as you move abroad, complicated bureaucracy will become a part of your day-to-day life.
Most importantly, be sure and clear about your goals and what you are really passionate about. Ups and downs are inevitable but the downs are where your passion will make everything worth it. Consider learning Italian early on this has many benefits. Finding a job and socialising will be easier.
Usual tuition fees for most courses in Italy is 3,000 euros per semester but this can be significantly reduced depending on the economic situation of the student. Also, there are many scholarships available from the Italian government, unis and some private organisations. Living expenses really are person and city-specific but I would say 300 to 400 euros per month should suffice.
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Engineering Extremes: Keeping Earth’s orbit safe by clearing up space junk – Professional Engineering
Astroscale's ELSA-d mission will demonstrate the technology required for commercial space debris removal
As head of space situational awareness, Toby Harris job at Astroscale UK involves analysing computational models of the orbital environment and quantifying risk to help his company select missions and develop spacecraft.
When his five-year-old son asks, hes got a simpler answer ready: Im the rubbish man in space.
Its a humble way to describe a colossal mission: to keep Earths low orbit clean and safe for a new age of space exploration.
With new technology, plummeting costs and fresh players (such as China and India), space is exciting again. Companies such as SpaceX, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic are building a new commercial industry that, by some estimates, will be worth nearly $1 trillion by 2030. From tourism to communication, from mineral exploitation to Mars missions, space is going to get busier. And demand for rubbish man missions to grab and bring down debris is expected to grow.
Toby (40) didnt study engineering but has so far spent his career engineering solutions to the kind of problems they make Hollywood films about.
For more than a decade, he supported the UK governments nuclear defence strategy. Then came the UK Space Agency, where he and a team of engineers inspected and licensed spacecraft. Leading delegations to the United Nations, hes often been the link between engineers solving technical problems and politicians negotiating policy.
Now at a company where seven out of every 10 employees are engineers, Toby, a father of two, spends his days thinking about how to clean up old space junk and prevent new junk from appearing. He also figures out how to bring better governance to a place that everyone wants to use, but no one is really responsible for. A place where a pea-sized object flying at more than 25,000mph can destroy a satellite. Where hunks the size of double-decker buses have been hurtling through the silence for decades.
People want to use space, says Toby. But theres more and more risk.
There are more than 3,000 active satellites orbiting Earth today. Thousands more are defunct. Nasa tracks half a million pieces of debris. Big collisions are, thankfully, rare, but one such crash in 2009 created thousands of pieces of junk, each a bullet threatening other objects. Satellites on opposite sides of the Earth can be on top of each other in under an hour. Its an extreme environment, becoming more extreme with every launch. And, with the arrival of large constellations of satellites, these launches are more frequent than ever.
For Toby and companies like Astroscale the focus is on prevention and removal.
Preventing space junk involves complex liability laws and better control over spacecraft, being able to manoeuvre them, predict the movement of other objects, communicate with other operators, and get out of the way if need be.
Removal is just as tough. Dead satellites tumble violently at ridiculous speeds. Top stages of rockets weigh tonnes. Getting close to these objects requires aligning a new spacecraft with their orbits, while avoiding all the space junk already up there. Not to mention actually catching them and pulling them down into the atmosphere, where they can burn up or land safely.
You have to juggle a whole bunch of operations at the same time, Toby explains.
But difficult problems offer exciting challenges to mechanical engineers. These engineers test the weight of spacecraft against the power of their thrusters, design solar panels to withstand projectiles, figure out the best ways to grab pieces of debris or broken satellites, and solve endless other puzzles.
Its how we get the job done, explains Toby, whos had a hand in all kinds of engineering work, from aeronautical to software. He believes mechanical engineering is a fundamental part of space exploration.
Apart from understanding the space environment, part of Tobys juggling act involves thinking about space sustainability and preparing demonstrations, like Astroscales ELSA-d mission, which launched in March. The mission is aimed at demonstrating technologies needed for docking with space debris and removing it. With an outdated treaty from the 1960s, the rules of space are, at best, murky, and countries are not responsible for cleaning up. So, just like with carbon emissions, Toby and others in his field are trying to get ahead of the problem. To get decision makers to realise that space pollution could make entire orbital highways too dangerous for use and that no single country can solve the problem alone.
To escape these kinds of deep questions and things like the Kessler effect the cascading of space collisions Toby paints the cosmos or reads sci-fi books by Stephen Baxter, one of his favourite authors. He runs and plays golf. And he spends time with his two kids, who may one day thank the rubbish man of space for his efforts.
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Naval aviation bridges medicine, engineering to advance aerospace tech – DC Military
The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) is advancing its human systems technology by combining best practices from the medical and engineering communities.
The warfare center recently stood up the Aeromedical Monitoring and Analysis branch comprised of licensed medical military officers bridging their perspective with engineering disciplines to improve operational capabilities like night vision technology, hearing protection, mission planning software, and more.
Medicine and engineering seldom wholly come together, said NAWCAD Aeromedical Monitoring and Analysis branch head Cmdr. Matthew Doubrava, a Navy Flight Surgeon board certified in Aerospace Medicine and Occupational Medicine. Our team of biomedical scientists looks forward to bringing human oriented science and a medical perspective to enhance our Navys advanced technology.
The uniformed medical specialists have a broad range of academic expertise including aerospace and occupation medicine, optometry and vision science, audiology, research and aviation physiology, and experimental psychology. With these skillsets, they will work directly alongside NAWCAD engineers, testers, and aviators to enhance their research, development, tests, and evaluation to advance aerospace technology. Adding this expertise will help create technology more relevant to human capability, and fill knowledge gaps where technical professionals typically hold little experience.
The Navys challenge with physiological episodes showed us how critically important a medical perspective can be, said Doubrava. Were working to stay ahead of the curve what is the next physiological episode on the horizon and how can we prevent it?
NAWCADs lineup of clinical scientists completed health care professional and graduate school, and entered the Navy to receive specialized training as aeromedical and research professionals. Most attended the six-month Aeromedical Officer Course that consists of a specialized flight school syllabus and clinical training in Pensacola, Florida. As an aeromedical officer, they hold a Navy aeronautical rating that requires a monthly minimum of aircrew flight time making them uniquely qualified as aeromedical professionals. While their primary mission is medical research, they are required to accrue flight time with fleet aviators for continued understanding of naval aviations evolving systems.
NAWCAD advances capability and operational readiness for naval aviation and our warfighters. The warfare center is where naval aviation takes flight through research, development, test, evaluation, and sustainment of both fielded and not-yet fielded naval platforms and technologies that ensure Americas Sailors and Marines always go into conflict with significant advantage. With sites in Patuxent River, Maryland, Lakehurst, New Jersey, and Orlando, Florida, the command is the Navys largest warfare center with a diverse force of military, civilians, and contractors building the Navy of today, the Navy of tomorrow, and the Navy after next.
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Uber to hire about 250 engineers in India to expand tech, product teams – Business Standard
Uber said Wednesday it is recruiting around 250 engineers for its Bengaluru and Hyderabad-based teams, as the company continues to expand the scope of operations for its engineering and product work in the India.
The current round of hiring will strengthen the companys rider and driver growth, delivery, eats, digital payments, risk and compliance, marketplace, customer obsession, infrastructure, adtech, data, safety and finance technology teams, the firm said in a statement.
These roles are currently split between the Hyderabad and Bengaluru tech centers.
Ubers expansion plans are in line with its vision to make mobility and delivery more accessible, and to become the backbone of transportation in over 10,000 cities globally.
Our teams in Hyderabad and Bangalore work on important global mandates, and pioneer various industry-first innovations. In order to serve more people across the globe, were expanding our teams and are looking for bright engineering minds so we can collectively solve mobility and delivery challenges across all our global markets, said Manikandan Thangarathnam, Senior Director, Engineering.
Uber has started reaching out to prospective candidates for building new teams and adding to existing ones, including Uber infrastructure, Eats, Marketplace, Risk and Payments, Uber for Business (U4B), marketing and advertising platforms.
Recently, Ubers tech teams have been heavily invested in building technology to enable safer rides and delivery across cities, including enabling mask-detection features and updating maps across countries.
To facilitate more effective social distancing measures, Ubers engineers have been accelerating digital payments in several countries, and also using machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to digitise several parts of Ubers operations, including driver onboarding, and uploading digital menus.
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Schools’ engineering competition leads to party popper shortage in the regions – Stuff.co.nz
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Egmont Village students (left) Cooper Riddick, 12, Jesse Smith, 11, Eddie Mills, 12, Isaac Richardson, 12, were lucky enough to get their hands on party poppers despite a shortage.
A national schools' competition has become a party pooper after causing a shortage of party poppers.
The EPro8 Challenge is a national inter-school science and engineering competition in which 13,000 students from 800 schools take part every year.
In term 2, students in Taranaki, Waikato, Otago and Canterbury have been completing the qualifying challenge, with the theme Happy New Year.
Teams of four have had to build a scale version of a famous landmark and construct a firework launching contraption that would launch party poppers.
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But with more than 4,098 budding engineers from the four regions taking part, a party popper is now hard to come by.
Egmont Village School students Issac Richardson, Eddie Mills, Cooper Riddick, and Jesse Smith got their party poppers as soon as the competition started.
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Ain Dubai, with party poppers at the top, made by the Egmont Village School students.
The group was a little surprised there was a shortage of them, but admit it took them a number of the party poppers to perfect their creation of the Ain Dubai ferris wheel.
I wasnt expecting it," Jesse said.
But EPro8 is really popular," Eddie added.
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The team had come first in their division.
The group came first in the year 7 and 8 Taranaki division with their creation, and will go to the semi-finals on June 15 in Stratford.
Meanwhile, Ararira Springs Primary School in Lincoln had posted on their Facebook page asking people to part with their beloved poppers if they had any lying around, after they found Countdown, New World, The Warehouse and K-mart were out of stock.
It seems there is a city wide shortage due to the number of children taking part in this programme, the post read.
The lack of poppers had come as a shock for EPro 8 challenge manager Kelvin Thiele.
I guess we didnt really think about how many party poppers would be needed with this many students completing the qualifying challenge, he said.
In term 3, students from Auckland and Wellington will take part in the qualifying challenge, which Thiele admits they might need to reconsider.
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The Warehouse was sold out across most of their stores.
A pack of 50 party poppers at The Warehouse can only be bought in-store and 66 of their 90 shops throughout the country have now sold out.
Meanwhile, Foodstuffs NZ head of corporate affairs, Antoinette Laird, said they were also struggling to keep the shelves stocked, although that was also down to Covid-19.
The impact of Covid-19 on global trade continues to have its challenges, she said.
Customers might see some gaps on shelves for party poppers, and were working closely with suppliers to get more stock in.
But luckily Countdown was not having any problem.
We're not experiencing a shortage of party poppers - phew! a Countdown media spokesperson said in an email.
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4 women in engineering discuss harassment, isolation and perseverence – TechCrunch
Women engineers often face workplace and career challenges that their male colleagues dont because they remain a minority in the profession: Depending on how you count, women make up just 13% to 25% of engineering jobs. That inequity leads to a power imbalance, which can lead to toxic working environments.
One of the more infamous and egregious examples is Susan Fowlers experience at Uber. In a blog post in February 2017, she described her boss coming on to her in a company chat channel on her first day on the job. She later wrote a book, Whistleblower, that described her time at the company in detail.
Fowlers ordeal cast a spotlight on the harassment women engineers have to deal with in the workplace. In a profession that tends to be male-dominated, behavior ranges from blatant examples, like what happened to Fowler, to ongoing daily microaggressions.
Four female engineers spoke with me about their challenges:
Its worth noting that Fowler was also an SRE who worked on the same team as Medina (who was later part of a $10 million discrimination lawsuit against Uber). It shows just how small of a world we are talking about. While not everyone faced that level of harassment, they each described daily challenges, some of which wore them down. But they also showed a strong determination to overcome whatever obstacles came their way.
One of the primary issues these women faced throughout their careers is a feeling of isolation due to their underrepresentation. They say that can sometimes lead to self-doubt and an inkling that you dont belong that can be difficult to overcome. Medina says that there have been times when, intentionally or not, male engineers made her feel unwelcome.
One part that was really hard for me was those microaggressions on a daily basis, and that affects your work ethic, wanting to show up, wanting to try your best. And not only does that damage your own self-esteem, but your esteem [in terms of] growing as an engineer, Medina explained.
Roa says that isolation can lead to impostor syndrome. Thats why its so important to have more women in these roles: to serve as mentors, role models and peers.
One barrier for us related to being the only woman in the room is that [it can lead to] impostor syndrome because it is common when you are the only woman or one of few, it can be really challenging for us. So we need to gain confidence, and in these cases, it is very important to have role models and leadership that includes women, Roa said.
Chong agrees it is essential to know that others have been in the same position and found a way through.
The fact that people talk authentically about their own jobs and challenges and how theyve overcome that, thats been really helpful for me to continue seeing myself in the tech industry, she said. There have been points where Ive questioned whether I should leave, but then having that support around you to have people to talk to you personally and see as examples, I think it has really helped me.
Butow described being interviewed for an article early in her career after she won an award for a mobile application she wrote. When the article was published, she was aghast to discover it had been headlined, Not just another pretty face
I was like, thats the title?! I was so excited to share the article with my mom, and then I wasnt. I spent so much time writing the code and obviously my face had nothing to do with it. So theres just little things like that where people call it a paper cut or something like that, but its just lots of little microaggressions.
In spite of all that, a common thread among these women was a strong desire to show that they have the technical skill to get past these moments of doubt to thrive in their professions.
Butow said she has been battling these kinds of misperceptions since she was a teenager but never let it stop her. I just tried to not let it bother me, but mostly because I also have a background in skateboarding. Its the same thing, right? You go to a skate park and people would say, Oh, can you even do a trick? and I was like, Watch me. You know, I [would] just do it. So a lot of that happens in lots of different types of places in the world and you just have to, I dont know, I just always push through, like Im just going to do it anyway.
Chong says she doesnt give in to discouraging feelings, adding that having other women to talk to helped push her through those times.
As much as I like to persevere and I dont like giving up, actually there have been points where I considered quitting, but having visibility into other peoples experiences, knowing that youre not the only one whos experienced that, and seeing that theyve found better environments for themselves and that they eventually worked through it, and having those people tell you that they believe in you, that probably stopped me from leaving when I [might] have otherwise, she said.
Chongs experience is not unique, but the more diverse your teams are, the more people who come from underrepresented groups can support one another. Butow recruited her at one point, and she says that was a huge moment for her.
I think that there is a network effect where we know other women and we try to bring them in and we expand on that. So we can kind of create the change or we feel the change we want to see, and we get to make our situation more comfortable, Chong said.
Medina says that she is motivated to help bring Latinx and Black people into tech, with a focus on attracting girls and young women. She has worked with a group called Technolachicas, which produced a series of commercials with the Televisa Foundation. They filmed six videos, three in English and three in Spanish, with the goal of showing young girls how to pursue a STEM career.
Each commercial talks about how we got our career started with an audience persona of a girl younger than 18, an adult influencer and a parent people that are really crucial to the development of anyone under 18, she said. How is it that these people can actually empower someone to look at STEM and to pursue a career in STEM?
Butow says its about lifting people up. What were trying to do is sharing our story and hoping to inspire other women. Its super important to have those role models. Theres a lot of research that shows that thats actually the most important thing is just visibility of role models that you can relate to, she said.
The ultimate goal? Having enough support in the workplace that theyre able to concentrate on being the best engineers they can be without all of the obstruction.
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QuantiTech, Millennium Engineering Rebrand As Axient; Reorganize To Better Deliver Mission-Advancing Solutions To Customers – Business Wire
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, QuantiTech, with its subsidiaries Millennium Engineering and Integration, Dynamic Concepts, and System Engineering Group, announced a company rebrand as Axient. The new brand reflects the combined capabilities of the four companies and solidifies the work over the past year to integrate their respective domain expertise to form a new entity that brings unique and differentiated capabilities to the marketplace. Axient also announced a reorganization of their operations to better deliver integrated solutions, services, and products to their customers.
Axient advances defense and civilian missions from aerospace to cyberspace with multi-domain test and analysis, mission engineering and operations, digital engineering, and advanced technologies. With the four companies now aligned as Axient, the new brand is uniquely positioned to deliver a broad spectrum of purpose-built solutions that enable defense and civilian agencies to rise to every challenge.
The Axient brand affirms our commitment to accelerate what is possible through innovation that empowers customers to move at the speed their mission requires, said Patrick Murphy, President and CEO, Axient. Each of our acquisitions has expanded and strengthened our capabilities and depth of talent, while unlocking new market opportunities. And most remarkable to me is how aligned the combined global workforce, which now exceeds 2,000 employees, is in culture, priorities, and mission focus.
To better serve its customer markets throughout the U.S. with depth and capability, Axient is structuring its services, solutions, and workforce under five business segments. The segments and leadership are: Integrated Force Systems led by Reese Hauenstein, Senior Vice President; Defense Systems led by Larry Foor, Senior Vice President; National Security Space Systems led by Dan Benjamin, Senior Vice President; and Civil Air and Space Systems led by Jon Sharpe, Senior Vice President. Joe Clayton, Senior Vice President, will continue to lead Axients Dynamic Concepts subsidiary as its Advanced Technology segment.
Axient is backed by Sagewind Capital, a New York-based private equity firm with a strong record of supporting government services companies. With the backing of Sagewind Capital, Axient will continue to add critical capabilities and depth through organic growth and acquisitions in support of customer missions.
ABOUT AXIENT
Axient advances defense and civilian missions from aerospace to cyberspace with multi-domain test and analysis, mission engineering and operations, and advanced technologies. We partner with our customers to identify and analyze their most important challenges and design solutions that turn challenges into breakthroughs to accelerate assured performance. With extensive domain expertise in defense and aerospace, we rapidly develop mission-enabling technologies that allow customers to move at mission speed. To learn more about how Axient can accelerate possible for your organization, visit http://www.axientcorp.com. We can also be found on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram.
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