AS A LIFE MEMBER OF THE IEEE, I receive a monthly E-letter from the IEEE’s Systems, Control, and Signal Processing society. IEEE is a global electrical/computer engineering professional society, so the E-letter is a good source of tidbits on the state of engineering around the world. Here are a few.

Faculty Openings advertised in the E-letter:

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
The University of Agder
Czech Technical University in Prague
KTH, Sweden
Chalmers University of Technology
NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
Polytechnic Institute of New York University
National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
University of Alberta, Canada
Northwestern University
University of Southampton
University of Groningen
Delft University of Technology
University of Toronto
Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
University of Michigan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China
University of Louisville
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
École Polytechnique de Montréal
University of Western Sydney, Australia
University of Pretoria, South Africa
Cranfield Defence and Security
University of Cambridge, UK
John Deere, Waterloo, IA

Eight of 28 are in the United States.

International conferences scheduled for 2011:

The 5th IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems, Qingdao, China

The 19th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED'11), Corfu, Greece

3rd International Conference on Control and Optimization with Industrial
Applications– COIA 2011, Ankara, Turkey

The 7th ASME/IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics & Embedded Systems & Applications (MESA 2011), Washington, DC, USA

One of 4 is in the United States.

For at least the last 30 years I’ve been a member of IEEE, there has always been a significant global presence in IEEE newsletters - but nothing like this. A harbinger of the future of science and engineering in the U.S., perhaps?