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The article considers the growing number of Chinese electronics engineers looking toward management and entrepreneurial opportunities. The growth of China's electronics industry is a key factor that drives many young Chinese choose electronics engineering as their occupation. These young Chinese electronic-design engineers receive more job opportunities, better salaries and grand social status than engineers in other industries. There are two reasons why mid-career electronics engineers stir away from engineering. First, research and development is an arduous job. Second, opportunity drives engineers to other jobs.

This article discusses the results of the study "Mind of the Engineer," which is conducted by this periodical every two years, for 2006. It explains that the study covered North America, Europe, China, Japan and other parts of Asia. Around 50 percent respondents are design-and-development engineers. The respondents identified keeping up with the latest technologies as their primary concern. 10 and 11 are the average number of projects per year handled by the respondents. The study also reveals an increase in the number of engineers who work in teams and increase in the number of cancelled projects.