The Grass is Greener
Courtesy of the PhysicsForums, here is a list of widely cited particle physicists who have gone to work in industry or government. Probably a good list of places for physics PhDs to work.
Where are they now?
Career
The Superstar Effect
Cal Newport has a guest post on Tim Ferriss' blog about the Superstar Effect.
When Michael, a student from Paradise Valley, Arizona, applied to Stanford, his G.P.A. put him in the bottom 10% of accepted students. His SAT scores fell similarly short. "Standardized testing isn'
Engineer Shortage?
An article was posted on the PhysicsForums recently about the lack of technically trained employees in the US. It was a good article that asked the important questions about H1-B visas, the overall job market, and hiring practices.
...John Tracy, vice president of engineering for Boeing Co.'s Integrated
Andy Grove on Manufacturing
Andy Grove of Intel wrote a piece on American jobs and offshore manufacturing that was pretty interesting. I have been hearing this kind of thing from Jerry Pournelle for years, and I think he is on to something.
However, Grove received a pretty brutal rebuttal from economist Tyler Cowen. Economics
Income distributions by undergraduate major
Something I hear pretty frequently when I bring up one of these Payscale reports is that I should include an estimate of the spread in the data. This is an excellent point, so I turned again to the National Center for Education Statistics. They have a PowerStats tool that lets
More on College ROI
Turns out I made a bit of a hasty generalization yesterday, the College of William and Mary doesn't have an engineering program, but it is at least a state institution. A few people asked about other well-known engineering schools, so here are the top 50 schools sorted by
College ROI
Payscale recently published a list of return on investment for various colleges. This was then picked up by BusinessWeek, so I'm sure lots of people have seen it. As published, the list is dominated by elite private schools, but the reason for this is they chose to sort