[BlindMath] [nfbcs] Science division reach its 2017 STEM scholarship goal

Thu May 11 02:37:25 UTC 2017

    Good day all,

I am a 76-year old research electrical engineer.  I've been hard-of-seeing 
all my life, typical acuity of 4/200 until early 2015 when I lost useful 
vision.  I earned the B.S.E.E. in '62, the M.S.E.E. in'63 and the Ph.D. in 
'77.  When I went to work in '63 an EE was not expected to be overly 
specialized but to learn the particulars of a problem on the job.  While I 
had specialized in control systems, in those days it was a broad field 
encompassing electric machines, electronics, hydraulics, pneumatics, 
sometimes heat transfer and fluid flow.  In '74 I went to work for a company 
that wanted an rf engineer, so I became one, designing rf circuits and 
antennas and arrays for five years.  Before that, I had done general 
electronics design, control systems analysis for space-borne energy systems, 
fuel cell controls, and wrote simulation code for a rotary heat transfer 
system at the back end of a jet engine.  I set up an experiment to show that 
lead-acid batteries produced gas on both charge and discharge, an important 
issue for deep-diving research submarines.  While I was teaching in the '80s 
and '90s I wrote code for a small-vocabulary voice recognition system to run 
on the '386 processor which is a fixed-point arithmetic rather slow 
processor by today's standards.  The point is, I had continuous job 
satisfaction to the present day.  I observed in job ads in the '90s that the 
requirements were getting narrower as time went on, reading more like a 
poaching ad than a search for real talent.  I think that when a job ceases 
to offer you interesting work it's time to move on.  Although, in general, 
management pays more than engineering, I didn't want to go that way, partly 
because we felt that managers were failed engineers.

Regards,
Doug Miron

-----Original Message----- 
From: Donald Winiecki via BlindMath
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2017 4:05 PM
To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
Cc: Donald Winiecki
Subject: Re: [BlindMath] [nfbcs] Science division reach its 2017 STEM 
scholarship goal

*Engineers' job satisfaction not based on salary (routinized work leads to
stagnant and dropping job satisfaction)*

https://www.jstor.org/stable/689758

*Engineers' job satisfaction not substantially-different from Doctors,
Lawyers or Teachers (high performance pressures, combined with routinized
work leads to progressive decrease in job satisfaction)*
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00300731

*Differential job satisfaction by sex*

https://academic.oup.com/sf/article/92/2/723/2235817/What-s-So-Special-about-STEM-A-Comparison-of-Women

*Non-scientific tally of job-satisfaction ratings (not a representative
sample)*

http://www.myplan.com/careers/top-ten/highest-job-satisfaction.php

*Employment rates & salary per career field, within 4-years of graduation
(many STEM fields no better than non-STEM fields) (biggest premium for CS
and undefined `engineering` -- note that 4-years is not a very large window
for assessing career -- UPENN reports larger window but I can't find the
report!)*

https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2014/2014141.pdf

_don

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Don Winiecki, Ed.D., Ph.D.
*Professor of Ethics & Morality in Professional Practice*
Boise State University, College of Engineering
1910 University Drive, Mail Stop 2070
Boise, Idaho 83725-2070 USA
E-mail: dwiniecki at boisestate.edu
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On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 7:05 PM, William Grussenmeyer via BlindMath <
blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Good.  I am tired of seeing all those scholarships going to people in
> majors like English, social work, and other humanities crap where they
> will never find a job.
>
> On 5/9/17, John Miller via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Thank you to everyone who has been a part of our successful effort to
> > collect donations for a 2017 NFB Science, Technology Engineering, and
> > Mathematics (STEM) Scholarship.
> > The STEM scholarship will be awarded in the amount of $3000 to a worthy
> > blind student at the 2017 NFB convention.
> >
> > We have made significant progress towards raising funds for a 2018 STEM
> > scholarship as well.
> > I want to let you know that we started the 2017 fundraising effort with
> $940
> > in the scholarship fund in July 2016.
> > At this time we have raised $1565 towards a 2018 STEM scholarship.
> > I feel confident that working together we can again award the STEM
> > scholarship in 2018.
> >
> > We know that blind professionals and students are succeeding in biology,
> > chemestry, and natural science.
> > We know that blind individuals are performing at a high level in
> > mathematics, physics, engineering, and related fields.
> > Donations came from blind individuals working in these fields, our
> friends,
> > and our family.
> > This year one corporate donation came from E.A.S.Y. LLC,
> > www.easytactilegraphics.com<http://www.easytactilegraphics.com>, an
> > organization committed to blind individuals creating technical drawings
> > independently.
> >
> > I am so grateful to be part of an organization that has a belief in the
> > abilities of blind people and a commitment to helping the next
> generation of
> > blind students.
> > I am also so thankful to those who patiently listened to my pitch for 
> > the
> > scholarship and then generously made it happen.
> >
> > Very Best,
> > John Miller, President
> > Science and Engineering Division
> > of the National Federation of the Blind
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>
>
> --
> William Grussenmeyer
> PhD Student, Computer Science
> University of Nevada, Reno
> NSF Fellow
>
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