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Tesla has now taken the No. 1 spot in the rankings of the most attractive companies for engineering students to work for in the US.

Thats a massive advantage that cant be overstated.

In the fast-paced tech world, innovation is the most important way for companies to stay competitive.

The best way to achieve a high pace of innovation is through establishing a culture that nurtures it within the organization and attracts top engineering talent.

On the latter, Tesla appears to have an important lead over the competition.

Universum conducts extensive surveys of students around the world and recently released its 2020 report:

Universum Global has just released its 12th annual Worlds Most Attractive Employers report.This year Universum surveyedover 235,000 business and engineering/IT studentsin the worlds 12 largest economies (Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, South Korea, the UK, and the US). We asked this group of future talent to provide insights on the company characteristics they find most attractive in a potential employer, as well as who they perceive to be their ideal employer.

In the US, Tesla has now topped the list of the most attractive companies for engineering students.

Tesla is also the only automaker in the top 10:

Tesla also makes the top 10 for business and computer science students.

The automaker has always been in the top 10 over the past few years, but this year has been the first time that Tesla was able to edge NASA and SpaceX for the top position.

As I previously said, thats a massive advantage that cant be overstated.

To be fair, attractive established talent in the industry is also very important, but being the top company that new engineers want to work at is a big deal.

Considering that Tesla and SpaceX are numbers 1 and 2, its fair to say that Elon Musk has a big effect on this.

Tesla is also known for having a somewhat high turnover rate, because it pushes its employees hard.

As I previously reported, Ben Schaffer, president ofUnplugged Performance,has an interesting perspective on Elons impact and the flow of talent at Tesla.

There are a lot of talented engineers in the world and most of them want to work at Tesla and for Elon, who Shaffer describes as the best engineer in the world.

Schaffer told me:

Its a magnetic effect and the magnet is Elon, the worlds most brilliant engineer. That, and Teslas mission, which is solving the worlds biggest problem.

He believes in Teslas ability to keep attracting top talent, and even if they dont stay for too long, Tesla and even Elon himself are absorbing a lot of their knowledge and using it long after they are gone.

Its also not to say that the people are disposable, but its an interesting perspective to look at it as a cycle.

That cycle is a lot easier to maintain if you have a strong flow of new engineering students that are excited to come work for you.

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Civil Engineering Junior Sophie Lipomanis is kind of a rock star in civil engineering. Named for a second year in a row as a national spokesperson for American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE), the transfer from Rutgers University has also excelled in ASCE conferences, including being named Outstanding Student of the Year in 2019, a national award presented in front of 400 professional engineers at the Construction Institute Summit in Los Angeles. Locally, she was instrumental in driving her ASCE student chapter to exponential growth, and being named the 2020 Student Organization of the Year.

The latest in her current collection of kudos is her selection by ASCE to be one of only three speakers in the country on a Dream Team virtual panel of Women in Engineering on Tuesday, November 10 at 1 p.m. EST. The panel will be presented in concert with a free film screening of Netflixs award winning documentary,Dream Big: Engineering Our World.In addition to the film, ASCE is organizing the panels so those interested can join live conversations with these Dream Teams of young, diverse engineers.

I was asked by ASCE if I would be interested in being one of the panelists, and when they reached out, I couldnt say no, said Lipomanis, who is on co-op in New Jersey this semester. Its an exciting opportunity.

Lipomanis joins the illustrious company of two other woman engineers: Menzer Pehlivan, one of the stars ofDream Bigand a geotechnical engineer who specializes in earthquakes, and Monica Morales, a water engineer based in Los Angeles helping to solve future droughts in Southern California.

Lipomanis was the only undergraduate asked to participate on any of the Dream Team panels, which are held November 10, 14, 17 and 24. Besides Women in Engineering, other panels featured include Cities of the Future, Black Engineers, and Spanish-language Engineers.

Narrated by Academy Award winner Jeff Bridges,theDream Bigfilm is a first of its kind for IMAX and giant screen theaters and features feats of engineering from the Great Wall of China and the worlds tallest buildings, to underwater robots, solar cars and smart, sustainable cities.Dream Bigcelebrates the human ingenuity behind engineering marvels big and small, and reveals the heartthat drives engineers to create better lives for people around the world.

We hosted a screening of the movie at one of our school events, said Lipomanis. It is talking about how engineers are shaping the world of tomorrow.

At Speed School, Lipomanis said she has enjoyed the schools more close-knit culture and feels supported in her dreams and goals.

Its not a huge program, so I feel like I actually know my faculty, Dr. French from ASC and Dr. Sun, and many others, she said. My advisor Natalie Oliner has been fantastic, and Heidi Neal, Dean Collins, Gail DePuy. Really, I could just say everyone at Speed School.

Passionate about STEM education for younger students, part of Lipomanis ambassadorship has been about being an advocate in schools to introduce students to creative and advanced manufacturing tools like lasers, 3D printers and more.

Lipomanis said she and her other Women in Engineering panelists want to appeal to that audience.

I know we will talk about our experiences as engineers, and we want to make sure we are presenting our information in such a way as to inspire young people to pursue a career in STEM, she said.

After graduation, Lipomanis plans to serve as a U.S. Naval Officer with the Civil Engineering Corps as part of the Sea Bees (Construction Battalion).

The Sea Bees are deployed often times in the event of a national emergency, she said. When a hurricane hits, you go and civil engineers do things like build emergency port structures. In Student Council and ASC, I liked helping people and this is serving your country. Its been my dream to do that.

You can register hereto view the film and women in engineering panel on November 10, or any of the scheduled panels.

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With California Ag Today, Im Tim Hammerich.

UC Merced recently received funding from the National Science Foundation to build an engineering research center focused on ag technology.

Specifically their focus will be on precision agriculture and internet connect devices. Heres Dr. Catherine Keske, whos an associate professor of management in the school of engineering.

Keske Our center is really innovative in that we're looking at tree crops and row crops. That is part of what made the National Science Foundation really sit up and pay attention. My role as an economist, I'm looking to see if farmers will adopt this or how they would adopt it in a cost-effective way. And we're looking for ag producer, farmer, grower input. If it's easy to use, if there's considerations that maybe the engineers hadn't thought of.

Dr. Keske says they received word of the funding in August and are currently building advisory boards for the project.

Keske We want everybody to have a voice. It's not that we want the scientists to dominate the growers and we don't want industry to overpower everything. It's a really a partnership at all different levels. And I might add that students have a voice in the conversation and that part of the idea is to train a workforce that will be working with this technology as well.

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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Transportation professionals from around the country will sign in from home and office computers next month, when the annual Transportation Engineering and Safety Conference (TESC) isheld virtuallyfor the first time in history.HeldDec. 911, TESC will bring together experts in industry and academia to discuss some of the most important issues in transportation.

Theconference is divided into six key trackssafety, operations, planning, design,technology andleadership.

Topics to be discussedinclude autonomous vehicles;intelligent transportation systems;new/revised state and federal transportation guidelines;public/private partnerships and innovative financing;work zone innovations;safety improvements; and smart city applications.

Justin Schwartz, Harold and Inge Marcus Dean of Engineeringin the Penn State College of Engineering,will open the conference with a welcome speech. Schwartz is scheduled to speak at 1 p.m. on Dec. 9.

YassminGramian, secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT), will serve as the conferences keynote speaker. She is scheduled tospeak beginning at approximately 1:10 p.m.onDec. 9.

Featured sessions include:

Online registration is available for attendees, exhibitors and sponsors. The deadline toregister as a sponsoris Nov. 13. Attendees mustregister by Dec. 3to avoid late fees. For complete details about sessionsorexhibitor opportunities, visittesc.psu.edu.

TESC is made possible each year with the help of a long list of sponsors and exhibitors. This years platinum sponsors are AECOM, HNTB, Jacobs, Michael Baker International,PennoniAssociates, Inc. and WSP. A complete list ofsponsorsandexhibitorsmay be viewed onthe website.

TESC is administered byPenn State Conferences and Institutesand hosted by theThomas D. Larson Pennsylvania Transportation Institute.

The Thomas D. Larson Pennsylvania Transportation Institute is Penn States transportation research center. Since its founding in 1968, the Larson Institute has maintained a threefold mission of research, education and service. The institute brings together top faculty, world-class facilities and enterprising students from across the University in partnership with public and private stakeholders to address critical transportation-related problems.

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In Ridley Scott's Prometheus, why were the primordial beings known as the Engineers planning on heading to Earth before they were attacked?

In Ridley Scotts 2012 sci-fi mystery, Prometheus, why were the engineers heading to Earth? The central themes that pervade both Prometheusand its 2017 sequel, Alien: Covenant,can help one better understand this, as both movies deal with the fraught relations between creator and creation, reflecting a classic tussle for power amid the two. Prometheus follows a human expedition headed by archaeologists Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green), wherein humanity seeks knowledge about belief, immortality, and death from beings that appear god-like in comparison to mortals.

The opening shot of Prometheus features an unforgettable sequence wherein an Engineer named Sacrifice drinks the black goo - which was later discovered by the android, David, on LV-223 - from an urn to create humanity itself, which is accomplished through an act of literal disintegration. The ritualistic sacrifice of this particular Engineer is not different from the lore surrounding the Mayans and the Incas and carries religious undertones, which is subtly hinted at throughout Prometheus, especially when it is revealed that an Engineer was sent to Earth so as to prevent humanity from being consumed by cruelty and aggression, who is believed to be Christ himself. Although very little is known about these beings, their origins, and motivations, it is established that Engineers are a primordial species, with access to cutting-edge technology, which also involved genetic engineering.

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When the human expedition team enters the Derelicts Orrery, the murals on the walls, along with the corpse of an Engineer, exemplify that they were equipped with bio-spacesuits and hazmat suit-styled bio-masks, which could potentially be protection gear for the bioweapons found at the alien temple. The crew of the UCSS Prometheus, especially Peter Weyland, are on a doomed quest right from the start. Weyland wishes to prolong his lifespan, and demands so from his maker, without a clear understanding of the core beliefs of the alien race. What ensues is a reversal of the creator-creation dynamic in Blade Runner, as here, the primordial creator views Weylands request as a fall from grace, which is an indication of failure as a race that does not deserve redemption. Prior to this, Weylands daughter, Vickers, questions his hubris, driving the point home: "A king has his reign, and then he dies. It's inevitable.

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