We'd like to thank the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers for their sponsorship of the newsletter this month. SCTE members are driving the future of exciting innovations in cable telecommunications—specifically the so-called Quad Play—video, voice, data, and wireless. Click here to learn more.

Letter from JETS
What an exciting time for JETS! We have just launched the new NEDC—National Engineering Design Challenge with NISH—to interest a broad range of students to engineering and technology careers, while showing them a very compelling side of engineering—helping someone with a disability through their own design efforts. More ...

JETS Update
Learn about exciting JETS programs and activities. This month we're featuring, the new NEDC-National Engineering Design Challenge, the 2005-06 TEAMS Competition, and the National Engineering Aptitude Search. More ...

Feature Story: Telecommunications Engineering
Telecommunications engineers analyze, design, install, and maintain telecommunications systems. These include wireless systems, local area networks, cable networks, cellular systems, fiber optics, microwave and satellite links, road traffic informatics, and satellite communications systems. More ...

Extreme Engineer
Jeff Cannon is an engineer who works in telecommunications engineering for ADC, a global supplier of network infrastructure products and services for multiservice networks that deliver data, video, and voice communications. Only four years out of college, he is currently working for a company that develops a number of exciting products to extend the reach of cellular networks, in a variety of ways. More ...

Current Event … A Monthly Feature by Author Celeste Baine
The State of Pre-Engineering Education
Over the last three weeks I traveled to the New England and New York area to visit and give presentations on engineering careers at many colleges and high schools. From Manhattan to Newark to Boston to Canton, the resounding challenge was the same…how do we get more students into the engineering field and how do we attract more girls. More ...

Hot Topic
This month's research focuses on trustworthy photographs from Columbia University's Digital Video and Multimedia Lab. More ...

JETS Affiliates help JETS meet its goal to increase awareness of and interest in engineering and technology-based careers among pre-college students, parents, teachers, and school counselors. To learn more about three JETS Affiliates, click on the logos below.     To fit your organization's needs, JETS has created several ways to become a JETS Affiliate. To learn more about how your organization can participate and help JETS inform and excite young people about engineering careers click here.

This newsletter is a publication of JETS. JETS opens the world of engineering and technology to students, parents, and educators by providing career guidance and through programs and resources that illustrate real-life teamwork and problem solving skills.

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