STEM-OPT Visa Eligible: The STEM Optional Practical Training (OPT) program allows full-time, on-campus international students on an F-1 student visa to stay and work in the U.S. for up to three years ...

Plant automation has historically been the responsibility of the control system engineer—you know, the instrumentation guy, the DCS guy, the PLC and HMI guy. Interfaces were straightforward with ...

There is no question that each generation of technology is different from the last. In this sense, many would think that ...

Manufacturing engineer jobs and industrial engineer jobs share similarities. They both require technical knowledge, management skills, and manufacturing expertise. But manufacturing engineer jobs and ...

At the end of February, PICMG (PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group)—the consortium for open hardware specifications—introduced InterEdge, a modular architecture for process control systems ...

ISA published the fourth edition of the Control Systems Engineering Exam Reference Manual: A Practical Study Guide by Bryon Lewis, PE, CMfgE, CCNA. In this Q&A feature, Lewis explains why he was ...

Conventional wisdom is that there’s not much to selecting an industrial enclosure. Yet the last likely item chosen for an industrial control system turns out to have an outsized impact as a simple ...

Performance is a topic that never strays far from the mind of most embedded systems developers. However, relatively speaking, many of us have it easy. We develop soft real-time systems in which a few ...

Do you have a real cybersecurity-focused ICS strategy in place, or are you force-fitting IT security policies on your industrial control systems? A recent incident where a likely nation-state threat ...

A virus that causes catastrophic damage to a turbine and generator–could it really happen? The Aurora generator test done for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) by Idaho National Labs ...

Time and again, industry reports provide discouraging evidence that our defenders are unable to detect and prevent intrusions from advanced, directed and highly structured cyber threats in a timely ...