Editor's Note: Reprinted with permission from IEEE Spectrum Careers, the career development Web site of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' (IEEE's) Spectrum magazine. Whenever he leaves the United States, whether to do research or on vacation, Zia Mian, a nuclear arms control expert at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School (Princeton, N.J.) has to depart from an airport...
Editor's Note: Reprinted with permission from IEEE Spectrum Careers, the career development Web site of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' (IEEE's) Spectrum magazine. Any career counselor would tell Sandra L. ("Candy") Robinson she's done everything right. A software engineer with 23 years' experience, she holds a BSEE, a master's in computer science, and an MBA. After each of...
