Evaluation Engineeering - 17

Pie Chart
Job Title

Demographics

5.4%
Other/Retired/
Scientific/Academia

As previously stated, we've broken down
the results of our survey questions by four
job titles, but here are the results of a few
demographic questions that are worth applying to all respondents.
Location: To no surprise, the most
Job Title
popular state our respondents' primary
facility resides in is California, at 12.7% 23.2%
of our total. Texas was second at 11.2%, Managers
followed by Michigan at 6.5%, New York
at 5.8%, Florida and Illinois each at 3.9%,
64.5%
Engineers
and Massachusetts and Ohio each at 3.5%,
while 5.4% of our respondents are located
outside of the U.S.
respondents say their company's approxiPie Chart
Gender: Of those who selected a mate
2018
full-year
sales were greater
What is your
highest
level of education?
gender, an even 94% of our respondents than $500 million.
12.0%
1.2%
* 17.7%
picked male.
say
their company Associate's
had between
High
school
degree
Company headcount: More than half
$50.1 million
and $500
million in
5.4%
3.0%
of our respondents work at large compasales Ph.D.
Technical
*
nies, with 31.5% saying their company has
9.6%18.9% say their company had between
school
Other
more than 10,000 employees, and 24.6%
$10.1 million and $50 million in sales
Masters
2.4%
are at companies with between 1,001 and
* 11.5% say their company had between
B.A.
10,000 employees.
$1.1 million and $10 million in sales
* 5.8% of respondents say their com- 17.4%
* 8.9% say their company had less than
M.S.E.E.
pany employs 501 to 1,000 people
$1 million in sales
* 16.9% work at companies with 101 to
Job vertical: Asked which vertical best
4.8%
28.1%
500 employees
describes
of our
M.B.A. where they work, 21.2%
B.S.E.E.
* 10.4% work at a company that has 11 respondents chose 16.2%
Military/Aerospace,
followed by Industrial
at 13.5% and
to 50 employees
Other B.S.
* 6.2% of respondents work at a com- Automotive/Transportation at 13.1%.
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pany that has 1 to 10Bar
employees
Respondents could pick from 13 options,
Within the past year, in what areas have you had to gain
Company sales: Just over 43% of our with the other popular picks including
6.9%
Executives

additional expertise?
Engineers:

Within the past year, in what areas
Pie Chart have engineers
How satisfied are you with your job?
had to gain additional expertise?
Engineers:

CHART 1:

EMC/EMI compliance

26.3%
23.4%

Safety compliance

19.2%

RF/communications
Internet of Things

17.4%

Signal integrity

17.4%

Power integrity

14.4%

Green engineering/
low-power design/energy efficiency

Cloud computing

8.4%

Industrial Internet of Things/
Industry 4.0

8.4%

Medical product design/test
Automotive/electronics

42.5%
Somewhat
13.2%
satisfied

7.2%

43.7%
Very
satisfied

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What is your age?
results of those who picked an age range)
Engineers:

6.6%

0.6%
18 to 25
15.0%
66+

Now, on to the rest of the survey
results, segmented by job title.

Unless noted, percentages are rounded
to the nearest 1/10th decimal point.
For Managers, Executives, and Other/
Retired/Scientific/Academia, only results
with a sufficient number of entries are
shown. Thus, total percentages won't
add up to 100.0% under each job title.
» Within the past year, in what
areas have you had to gain
additional expertise?
ENGINEERS: See Chart 1

0.6%
28.1%
Very dissatisfied

13.2%
Somewhat
dissatisfied

None

Power/Energy (9.2%), Other (8.9%),
Semiconductors/Components (6.9%), and
Contract Design/Manufacturing (6.2%).
Job title: As expected, the vast majority
of our respondents-64.5%-are front-line
Engineers, encompassing non-managerial
functions such as testing, product/quality
assurance, production, design, research &
development, field service, or lab support.
A little less than one-fourth-23.2%-of
respondents have Managerial titles (product manager, non-executive vice president, corporate manager, etc.). Nearly
7% of respondents have C-Level Executive
titles (owner, chairman, president, CEO,
CFO, CIO, COO, EVP, etc.), while 5.4% of
respondents' title falls under one of Other,
Retired, or Scientific/Academia.

5.4%
26 to 35

MANAGERS:
* Safety compliance ...........................53.3%
* RF/Microwave communications ...... 21.7%
* EMC/EMI compliance ...................... 20.0%
* Internet of Things ............................. 18.3%
* Industrial Internet of Things, M2M,
Industry 4.0 ...................................... 16.7%
* None ................................................. 16.7%
* Power integrity ................................. 11.7%
* Signal integrity .................................. 8.3%
* Automotive electronics (radar, V2X) . 6.7%
* Fog computing ................................... 6.7%
EXECUTIVES:
* Safety compliance ...........................33.3%
* RF/Microwave communications ...... 27.8%
* EMC/EMI compliance ...................... 27.8%
* Internet of Things ............................. 27.8%
* None .................................................22.2%
* Signal integrity ................................. 16.7%
OTHER/RETIRED/SCIENTIFIC/ACADEMIA:
* Internet of Things .............................50.0%
* None .................................................28.6%

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