IEEE Spectrum February 2009
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Dream Jobs
Designing fun, interactive toys, creating computer-driven visual effects for Bollywood films, building search and rescue robots that could save lives — it's amazing where engineering can take you! In this year's Dream Jobs special report, IEEE Spectrum profiles ten incredible engineers whose enthusiasm and interests have shaped their careers.

• Keya Banerjee helps create visual effects movies in Bollywood, India.
• Shannon Bruzelius turned a lifelong love of toys into a job in safety and reliability engineering at San Francisco's Wild Planet Toys.
• Arieta Gonelevu, a senior project officer at the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission, in Fiji, brings electricity to isolated islands throughout the South Pacific.
• Kunio Koike oversees the design of the cutting-edge electronics used in high-end Seiko watches.
• Kenyon Kluge brings together an electrical engineering careeer and a motorcycle racing career designing all-electric dirt bikes at Zero Motorcycles in Scotts Valley, Calif.
• As project manager at Solar Impulse, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Philippe Lauper is helping build the world's most advanced solar plane, which will attempt to circle the globe in 2011.
• Marco Migliari is a senior engineer at Real World Studios, Peter Gabriel's tech-driven music company, near Bath, United Kingdom.
• Robin Murphy, a computer science professor at Texas A&M University, configures robots to assist in search-and-rescue efforts after a disaster.
• Tero Ojanpera, executive vice president of entertainment and communities, based in White Plains, N.Y., leads Nokia's drive to become a Hollywood player and next-generation entertainment company.
• Erlunder S. Thorsteinsson, based in Iceland, is head of software for CCP Games' EVE Online, a hugely successful sci-fi MMOG (massively multiplayer online game).

Not Your Grandfather's TV Antenna
A massive advertising campaign is now telling people who watch over-the-air television they'll need a digital television, digital TV receiver, or converter box to display the digital signal On 17 February 2009. Most of them will also need new antennas. After changing little in 30 years, antenna design is undergoing a revolution.

The Datacenter of the Future
As Internet-based applications replace shrink wrap software, the demand for processing and storage inside the network will grow even faster. The result will be greater processing and storage density, deployed in more and larger-scale datacenters.

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  The commercial debut of Sprint's WiMAX high-speed mobile data network in Baltimore will be followed by many other cities in the fourth quarter and beyond. Intel is becoming a leading force behind WiMAX technology, and the system has lots of additional support from Google, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and others. The wildcards will be adding WiMAX capability to a range of new and evolving mobile devices, and with that will emerge very low-cost laptops.

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• EMI/EMC Simulation Analysis: The Challenges of Hybrid Power Train Technologies (April 2008)
  With new hybrid power train technologies with higher voltages and currents, electromagnetic compatibility has become critical in automotives, raising issues such as significant increases in cost and design cycle times.
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