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Growing Engineering Jobs and Salaries

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The US Department of Labor’s Bureau Labor Statistics (BLS) has recently stated that the rate of employment for engineering professionals is expected to rise up to 7% until the year 2026. Some other predictions are as follows.

  • This number is growing as fast as the average of all the occupations.
  • The agency has also predicted an approximate number of 194, 300 new jobs to open in engineering.
  • A number of industries are expected to offer these job opportunities including rebuilding infrastructure, renewable energy, oil and gas extension, robotics, cybersecurity, and advanced manufacturing.
  • In addition, the median annual wage for engineering occupants, in 2016 was observed as $77,900 which was more than twice as high as all the occupations in the economy.

What’s new in Ansys 19?

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ANSYS 19 is also known as the Next Generation Pervasive Engineering Simulation technology. With the expanding digital world and growing data, companies are struggling with the pressure to improve performance to deliver high-quality products within a limited time. ANSYS 19, is designed to empower such engineers and professionals to contribute to the overall productivity. The enhanced capabilities of the technology aim to produce accurate results. Here are some of the many features that will support Pervasive Engineering Simulation.

3D Design

ANSYS 19 now introduced the new 3D design family of products.

  • The package includes a real-time simulation environment that is developed to help engineers explore their designs and concepts.
  • The CAD modeling capabilities of the ANSYS Discovery SpaceClaim now have new assembly configurations.
  • Some of its supporting exploded views help engineers generate more efficient designs.

The technology helps to build upon topology optimization so that users can observe live progression to solve steps and make informed decisions.

Embedded Software

ANSYS 19 now has powerful capabilities to carry out tasks. These tasks include:

  • Workflow integration
  • Performance and usability
  • A fully certified embedded software with a Human-Machine Interface (HMI) and
  • Design capabilities

The technology is also supported by some dedicated solutions for automotive and avionics system and software. Added features here included capabilities for multi-rate application designs and enhanced HMI design capabilities that comply with ARINC 661 and that qualify for ISO 26262 and DO- 178C.

Electromagnetics

With the new technology, engineers can now design wireless, electrification and autonomous technology. The improved features of the technology include radar cross section analysis innovative electronic machine design, integrated electro-thermal analysis, and also a design kit to offer enhanced user experience with all the electromagnetic field simulation tools.

Semiconductors

To meet the growing demands of the next generation computing capabilities, which is not only automotive, but also is mobile, and delivers high performance computing through the advanced system. The technology thus demands products that are bigger, faster, and more complex. The simulation environment offered by ANSYS 19 delivers a platform that is more comprehensive, enabled for Big Data and capable of solving different design attributes such as thermal properties, power noise, performance and reliability across the spectrum accelerating your product success.

Systems

ANSYS 19 offers some of the most powerful capabilities in two crucial work areas:

  • System simulation for battery management design and deployment
  • Functional safety and analysis to use across all safety-critical industries

ANSYS 19 now has some enhanced features to help engineers easily model the complete design of a battery management system. Another add-on, ANSYS Simplorer helps the engineers to simulate and test the entire system after design and development. ANSYS 19 expands the functional safety analysis across all industries.

Drones learn to navigate by imitating Cars and Bicycles Autonomously

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The commercial drones these days make use of the Global Positioning System (GPS) to traverse. Such a method works fine when the drones fly at a high altitude. But the real hurdle arises when these drones navigate autonomously at a lower altitude. At such low altitudes, there are several issues such as

  • More density of building
  • Unstructured stress with the movement of several vehicles and humans.

The drones at this level have not reached to such a stage where they can react to an unforeseen event quickly. There are ways to enhance the functionalities of these drones.

Integration of autonomous navigation in drones

The development of DroNet by researchers at the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Robotics and the University of Zurich shows that autonomous navigation of drone is possible. It is an algorithm that helps the drones to fly through the busy streets of a city safely. With the help of one input image, it produces two outputs:

  • A steering angle and
  • A collision probability

The former helps the drone to avoid accidents, while the later helps it to identify the dangerous situations and react to them.

Powerful artificial intelligence algorithm

A team of Swiss researchers sought the help of a powerful algorithm and a normal smartphone camera to make the drones smarter. The combination helped the drone interpret the real-time situation and react accordingly. The algorithm used, consisted of Deep Neural Network.

Teaching the Drones through Cars and Bicycles

The collection of training examples is one of the biggest issues in Deep Learning. The drones can learn by imitating the driving behavior in the examples. Thus, Prof. Scaramuzza, along with his team collected the data from cars and bicycles driving in urban areas.

Fully autonomous drones – The Future

Through this research, the doors are open to several applications such as parcel delivery, surveillance and much more. The drones can drive within the clustered roads, with ease and save a lot of time. However, the team cautions from expecting too much from cheap drones.

What’s new in Revit 2018

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The 2018 release of Revit has introduced some amazing features for the users. These features will enable the designers to model a complete, consistent, and coordinated designs for multiple disciplines. These features have the extensibility to both detailing and construction. The list of features are:

Co-ordinated Models

The new Revit feature, now allows the users to link their NWC or NWD files of the coordination models that are generated on Navisworks®. This feature can be helpful to compare the non-Revit and Revit model.

Scheduled Groups and Revit Links

The users can now select the fields that appear in the schedule on the Fields tab of Schedule Property Dialog Box. Also, the new feature allows the Revit experts to include the elements from a linked model.

Global Parameters

In the 2018 Revit updates, the experts can now embed designs with project-wide parameters. Furthermore, these parameters can now work with equality constraints and diameter and radial dimensions.

Multistory Stairs

The new feature of stairs allows the users to create multistory stairs by selecting the levels of the building. These stairs adjust automatically when the heights are changed. These stairs can be created from the existing stairs even at a later stage.

Railings

The new railing feature allows the users to modify the railing by chaining its height, shape, and number. Also, the path of the railing can be customized through sketch tools.

MEP Fabrication Model

The 2018 updates allow the experts build a run of connected MEP fabrication parts automatically by just clicking on the points of the model. The selection of the parts is automatic from the current fabrication service and group.

MEP Design and Analysis

With the help of the new updates in Revit, the users can now manipulate the pathways of the circuit. Also, the updates in MEP design and analysis allows the users to define their own type of space. They can also include the requirements of outdoor air.

Rebar for Complex Geometry

The latest rebar updates allow the placement of rebar as concrete objects that are of free-form. Also, it allows the reinforcement of concrete elements that are imported and their varying rebar distribution is improved.

 

These are just a glimpse of updates in Revit 2018. There are many more interesting features such as Rebar Graphical Constraints in 3D, Additional Steel Connections, Collaboration for Revit, Work-sharing, Parametric components, and much more.

Get Hired! Engineering Hiring Managers Top Secrets Revealed

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It is now easy to get noticed as a top engineering candidate. A recent survey has identified a few major evaluation techniques employed by the hiring managers to distinguish promising candidates.

First 15 Minutes

More than 54% of the managers shortlist the top candidates within the first 15 minutes of the interview.

Top 3 Hard Skills

  • 80% managers look for analytical or critical thinking.
  • 65% look for technical skills (system, computer, software).
  • 59% seek troubleshooting skills.

Top 3 Soft Skills

  • Teamwork is a very important soft skill which is preferred by almost 85% managers.
  • 79% managers shortlist the candidates who possess good listening and comprehension skills.
  • 79% managers prefer candidates who possess a sense of personal accountability.

Resume

Eight out of ten hiring managers interview the candidates based on the match of the job description with the resume. The most preferred format of a resume is the digital or electrical format.

  • 67% prefer digital resume.
  • 29% seek a traditional hard copy.
  • 2% seek for a digital portfolio.
  • 2% shortlist based on a LinkedIn profile.
  • Less than 1% prefer video resumes.

Interview Tips

  • Clearly express the personal achievements and weaknesses.
  • Boldly communicate the skills and their reason for befitting the job.
  • Remain conscious about timely appearance, politeness, grooming conditions, and graciousness.
  • Learn about the company.

Common Interview Mistakes

  • Inappropriate usage of mobiles phones during the interview
  • Arriving late for the interview
  • Lack of enthusiasm and passion for the job and carrier
  • Behaving weird, ignorant, or ungrateful.