Your Job: Nightmare or Dream?

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Tired of trudging across the parking lot to your cubicle every day? Fed up with working on your pet projects under cover of night? Have you been thinking about going back to law school? Then take a look at our ”Dreams Jobs” stories in this issue. As the 10 technologists we found for this year’s report make clear, it’s more than possible to combine engineering with a wealth of other life interests and passions.

But then again perhaps you already have a dream job or know someone who does. If that’s the case, then tell us about it by dropping us a note at spectrum@ieee.org .

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Asad Madni and the Life-Saving Sensor

His pivot from defense helped a tiny tuning-fork prevent SUV rollovers and plane crashes

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Asad Madni and the Life-Saving Sensor

In 1992, Asad M. Madni sat at the helm of BEI Sensors and Controls, overseeing a product line that included a variety of sensor and inertial-navigation devices, but its customers were less varied—mainly, the aerospace and defense electronics industries.

And he had a problem.

The Cold War had ended, crashing the U.S. defense industry. And business wasn’t going to come back anytime soon. BEI needed to identify and capture new customers—and quickly.

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