What You Might Not Know about Intellectual Property

by Glenn Tenney IEEE-USA Today's Engineer, August 2005 Can you imagine receiving an electrical engineering degree and not knowing anything about Ohm’s law? Or of receiving a computer science degree and not having had any computer programming classes? Yet, a basic part of almost every IEEE member’s work often isn’t taught in school. We create works, make inventions, design new chips, produce new consumer products, and write articles, all as part of what we do as engineers -- all of these acts relate to intellectual property. Read more