Article: Tips for continuing your education -- on your own; EEs need continuing education, but not all companies support such endeavors. (includes list of the hot electrical engineering skills in demand for 1993 and a guide to acronyms) (Special Supplement: state of engineering)

EEs need continuing education, but not all companies support such endeavors

"The requirement for continuing education is very real, if not more real as we move more toward the knowledge worker as the center," says Ronald Scheid, director of technical personnel development at IBM Corp (Armonk, NY). "You read a lot about employee empowerment and team empowerment, but it doesn't do any good if the employee or the team doesn't have the knowledge."

To keep its technical employees in tune with industry developments, IBM requires that they take 40 hours per year of continuing education. Empolyees can either take in-house, IBM-run courses or outside classes, ...

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