Electrical Engineering


Recent Articles about Electrical Engineering

On the Road With a Supersalesman

Is John "Grizz" Deal the greatest salesperson around?  Read more

Pros Cons of the Independent Contractor's Life

An independent contractor--IC--is a person who contracts to perform services for others without having the legal status of an employee. Most people who qu...  Read more

Making Faster Chips--For Home Use Only

New business creates faster chip technology for sale only in American markets.  Read more

The Company Money Almost Killed

Profile of one CEO and his management of a computer chip company on the brink of bankruptcy.  Read more

Gallium Valley

The quest for faster computers has opened the door to a potentially huge new market in the crowded semiconductor field. Gallium arsenide has been touted f...  Read more

Mutual Benefits

Analog Device's daring strategy for coping with change has led to unique relationships with small companies around the country.  Read more

Intimate Relations

Global pressures are forcing even the fiercest competitors to create strategic alliances.  Read more

The Futurists

From solar panels to clean coal, betting big on the future of energy.  Read more

High Concept: I'll Take Manhattan

A new way to build computer memory chips takes its inspiration from the Manhattan skyline: when space is at a premium, build up rather than out.  Read more

The Third Wave

U.S. entrepreneurs are filling new niches in the semiconductor industry.  Read more

The Connected Car

The introduction of the Chevy Volt and other electric vehicles will require a vast ecosystem of entrepreneurial businesses.  Read more

The Age Of Alliances

The new semiconductor companies are getting their funding from a powerful combination of hungry venture capitalists, aggressive bankers, and -- suprisingly e...  Read more

The Innovation 50

A listing of the most inventive small companies in entrepreneurial America.  Read more

14 Inventors We Love

Many inventors--the Edisons and Bells of the world--command our respect. But here is a look at 14 inventors, only some of whom are well known, that command s...  View slideshow

Three Small Business Owners Who Love Obama's Stimulus

Some Inc. 500|5000 CEOs are in the right industries to benefit from the President's emergency funds.  Read more

Router-mania: Best Draft N Buys

The IEEE 802.11n standard hasn’t even been finalized yet, but wireless networking equipment is not only widely available but on sale or out-performing earl...  Read more

Small Company Initial Public Offerings: February March 1983

Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. O-TC sym. Company...  Read more

All Summary, No Substance

The executive summary below is actually an altered and disguised version of a real executive summary. But it remains as badly done in this state as it was...  Read more

Are the Best Leaders Revolutionaries?

Truly effective leaders must approach business with alternative ways of thinking, says Dov Frohman, the founder of Intel Israel and the man who's been dubbed...  Read more

How I Did It: Noreen King, CEO, Evolve Manufacturing Technologies

As told to Amy Gunderson Industry: Manufacturing 2006 Inc. 500 Ranking: Read more

Chips Ahoy;

For about two years there, you would have had more luck going public as a maker of chocolate chips than as a maker of silicon chips. But last May, two se...  Read more

1987 The Inc. 100;

WE'RE AWAITING CONFIRMATION FROM THE observatory at Mount Palomar that all the planets and moons did indeed orbit around Wall Street last year. Certainly...  Read more

Illuminating News

A short article that explains how some lighting fixtures may cause computer problems.  Read more

Small Company Initial Public Offerings: June 1982

INC. MARKET INDEX vs. POPULAR AVERAGES S&P NASDAQ DJI 400 ASE Ind'ls INC. % change -2 -3 -5 -4 -5 June-J...  Read more

A Globetrotting Guide to Managing People

Insight into opening foreign offices. A sample of five countries' standards in the workplace.  Read more

Pipe Covering

Engineer has created a new form-fitting pipe insulation foam called FoamPak.  Read more

Storm Clouds Over Silicon Valley

As blind faith in the infallibility of high-tech companies falters, the era of unrestrained growth in the Valley may be over.  Read more

A Little Help From Your Friends

You probably know more potential investors than you realize. The trick is to put together a deal they'll find attractive  Read more

Ventured Guesses

From 1981 to 1984, venture capitalists sunk some $3.7 billion into computer-related businesses. With the go-go days in computers now seemingly gone-gone,...  Read more

Dear Jon,

Three years after founding Northwest Instrument Systems, Jon Birck became a cliche -- one more entrepreneur squeezed out of his fast-growing company.  Read more

Mrs. Drucker Starts a Business

The story of how an 80-plus year old woman, the wife of a management guru, started the first company of her life.  Read more

Recessionade

Don't complain to Inc. 500 CEOs that the economy may be hitting the skids. Where others see danger lurking, this bunch sees opportunity.  Read more

Waiting for the Next Wireless Standard

Despite a series of delays, the next generation wireless -- 802.11n -- will eventually make it to market. But for the very small, there may be no need to wait.  Read more

Introducing The 1986 Inc. 100

Like a bunch of adolescents, the companies on the INC. 100 are an unsettled lot. They have grown so fast that their knees ache. They have consumed capit...  Read more

Fast Track;

SCOTT VOSS USED TO WORK AS director of engineering at a semiconductor plant in the Philippines, where the turnaround time to his U.S. customers was 25 day...  Read more

Culture Shock

Sequent's founders thought that a strong corporate culture would be the key to success. They didn't have to wait long to see if they were right.  Read more

Looking Into the Sun

If David Slawson is right about solar power, our days of oil dependency are numbered.  Read more

Tesla Employees Killed In Silicon Valley Plane Crash

Three employees of electric car maker Tesla Motors were on board a plane that crashed in Palo Alto, California, killing all on board. Tesla CEO Elon Musk tol...  Read more

The Innovator's Dilemma

What to do when your dream comes true and you hate it.  Read more

Burning Ambition

Profile and analysis of a start-up manufacturer of waste oil and trash converters.  Read more

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