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Chris McManes
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c.mcmanes@ieee.org

+1 202 785 0017 ext. 8356

Director, IEEE-USA Communications & Public Relations
Pender M. McCarter, APR, PRSA Fellow, MIPRA
p.mccarter@ieee.org
+1 202 785 0017 ext. 8353


Appended below is a listing of references to IEEE-USA in various media publications. In some cases, the text of the article has been reprinted. Note: Due to the time-sensitive nature of the Internet, some of the links may have expired.

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4th Quarter
A Short Circuit for U.S. Engineering Careers
By Terry Costlow
The Christian Science Monitor
26 December 2002

This article also appeared in:

Raleigh News & Observer (26 December 2002)
Hilton Head (S.C.) Island Packet (26 December 2002)

This article was also discussed on: Slashdot.org (26 December 2002)

Shift of Tech Jobs Abroad Speeding Up, Report Says
By Diane E. Lewis
Boston Globe
25 December 2002
UW Professor to Head National Engineering Organization
By Associated Press
Billings Gazette
07 December 2002
Industry Praises Passage of Bill to Boost NSF Funding
By Margaret Quan
EE Times
03 December 2002
Work Visa's Success Fuels Resentment
By Carol Hazard
Richmond Times-Dispatch
01 December 2002
Internet With the Speed of Light (36 Kb PDF)
By James H. Johnston
Legal Times
18 November 2002
Unemployed EEs Retool To Survive
By Margaret Quan
EE Times
22 October 2002
Slowdown Sending Tech Jobs Overseas
by Jennifer Bjorhus
San Jose Mercury-News
21 October 2002
Data Indicate Engineers May Be a Disappearing Breed
by Jill Jusko
Industry Week
16 October 2002
Work Force Summit Could Miss Key Labor Issues, Critics Say
by Margaret Quan
EE Times
16 October 2002
Fewer Engineers Unemployed, But Total Number of Jobs Shrinks
by Margaret Quan
Silicon Strategies
/EETimes
15 October 2002
Fewer Engineers Unemployed, But Total Number of Jobs Shrinks
by Margaret Quan
EE Times
15 October 2002
Foreign Workers Continue to Join the U.S. Workforce
by Carlos Tejada
The Wall Street Journal Online
02 October 2002
3rd Quarter
Product Development Stunted — Cancellations, Cutbacks Beset EE Workplaces
by Robert Bellinger
EE Times
26 September 2002
Feds to Study H-1B Program's Impact on IT Hiring, Retention
by Patrick Thibodeau
Computerworld
16 September 2002
Economy and Job Market in Silicon Valley (CNN transcript)
by Kevin Hattori (Reporter)
NEXT@CNN
CNN
14 September 2002

NEXT@CNN, CNN's weekly magazine on the latest innovations in science, technology, environment, space, and computers, recently ran a 4-minute piece on the H-1B program which displayed LeEarl Bryant's July engineering unemployment letter to Congress on IEEE-USA letterhead.

(Read the transcript)

GAO To Study Impact of H-1B Program on Hiring
by Patrick Thibodeau
Computerworld
11 September 2002
Congress May Bear Brunt of H-1B Anger
by Patrick Thibodeau
Computerworld
19 August 2002
U.S. Workers Say Number of Visas for Tech Jobs 
Still Too High

by Marilyn Geewax
Cox Newspapers
18 August 2002

This article also appeared in:

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (20 August)
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune
(26 August)

Engineers take cost-cutting hits at IBM, Agere, Flextronics
by Margaret Quan
EE Times
15 August 2002
Temporary Work Visas for Foreigners Down Sharply in U.S.
The Press Trust of India
13 August 2002
Unemployment Rise Has Engineers Worried
by Kendrick Sadler
The Nashville City Paper
13 August 2002
Number of H-1B Visas Issued Has Fallen By Half
by Jennifer Bjorhus
The San Jose Mercury News
10 August 2002
The Great Java Jobs Debate @ SYS-CON Continues... and Spreads Net-wide
Java Developer's Journal
Posted on 2 August 2002
235,000 Software Engineers Can't Be Wrong, Right?
Slashdot.com
Posted on 25 July 2002
Congress Asked to Review IT Field: Engineer Group Upset Over H-1B Visas, Job Losses
by Diane E. Lewis
The Boston Globe
23 July 2002

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