IN THE NEWS

Tired of being only girl on robotics team, Hillsboro girl does something about it
Computer science student Savannah Loberger started a summer camp called "Girls Get It." KATU

Race with the sun
Last year, the OSU team won the race, and it also got the sportsmanship award for helping other schools make it through that first crucial lap. This year, the team will defend its title, and speed is not as important as distance. The goal is to outlast the competition. OSU's car completed 193 laps in the 2013 race. The winner must complete at least one lap after the last competitor's car stops and runs out of fuel — or electrons, in this case. Ashland Daily Tidings

Girls' skills are needed in tech
ChickTech is based in Portland but plans to be nationwide by 2016. At ChickTech, women like Jennifer Davidson (CS alum) and ChickTech founder Janice Levenhagen-Seeley (CpE alum), give girls a chance. A jumping off point. A view into a world that can also be theirs. opensource.com

NOT NEWS, BUT OF INTEREST

Bonamici works to restore lost wave energy funds
A wave energy amendment sponsored by an Oregon Congressional rep has passed through the House. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, a Portland Democrat, was one of a handful of leaders looking to boost wave energy research funding by $9 million. Portland Business Journal

Wave Energy Engineering for Middle Schools
If you want to get young people interested in engineering, it’s never too early to plant that seed. Not every kid has an engineer in the family, so it’s important that schools provide hands-on experience.  That’s why I’m excited about the Wave Energy Engineering project created by Oregon State University. Bill Hanshumaker, Chief Scientist at OSU’s Hatfield Marine Science Center Visitor Center, and Alan Perrill, a volunteer at the center, designed a wave energy device that’s made from off-the-shelf parts and can be constructed by a middle school student. engineering.com

Portland company unveils new tool as open source community converges on Rose City
Next week, thousands of Open Source experts and users will be Portland for the O’Reilly Open Source Convention. Local startup GraphAlchemist is hoping to tap into some of that excitement. The data visualization company has tools for corporate customers to visualize data sets and map connections, and now it is releasing a version called Alchemy.js that will allow people to get a taste of the product. Portland Business Journal

SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS

USRA Education Scholarship Fund
The Universities Space Research Association offers the award to full- time junior and senior students who have a career interest in the physical sciences or engineering with an emphasis on space research and/ or space science education. You must have a minimum 3.5 GPA, and be a U.S. citizen to be eligible for this $1,500 award. Applications for the fall 2014 USRA Scholarship Awards will be accepted until August 1, 2014. Details

GRADUATE EXAMS

Thursday, July 17, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, KEC 1007. PhD Final Oral Examination – Janardhan Rao Doppa. Co-Major Advisors: Prasad Tadepalli, Alan Fern; Committee: Thomas G Dietterich, Weng-Keen Wong; GCR: Chris Bell. "Integrating Learning and Search for Structured Prediction." Details

Thursday, July 17, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, KEC 1007. MS Final Examination – Tamara Alshammari. Major Advisor: Bechir Hamdaoui; Committee: Larry Cheng, Thinh Nguyen; GCR: Maggie Niess. "Malicious-proof and Fair Credit-based Resource Allocation Techniques for DSA Systems." Details

JOBS

OSU Career Services
The new Beaver Careers is live and you can login, update your profile, and begin setting appointments, searching jobs and connecting with off-campus employers! Details

E-Waste Project Coordinator, OSU Campus Recycling and Surplus Property. This position will help OSU improve its e-waste recycling program and earn e-Stewards certification. The position duties include researching requirements, identifying and evaluating e-waste vendors, completing time studies on dismantling computers, evaluating safety, and presenting recommendations. Applications are due August 8th. Details are at http://tiny.cc/ewaste-coord

Internship, Intel Labs. Responsible for the development of antenna/ transceiver system for next generation short range wireless. Design antennas, model it in 3D simulation tools (example HFSS), fabricate antenna boards and measure antenna performance. Contribute towards transceiver system and circuit design. Details

SSD Systems Engineer (PCIe or cSSD), Micron. As a Systems Engineer at Micron Technology, Inc. within the Released Products Team, you will be responsible for taking solid state drives from design to high volume manufacturing. This will involve firmware test and validation, performance characterization, manufacturing support, customer support, generating training documentation, developing Project Schedules, and representing Systems Engineering on cross-functional Product Development teams. You will also be responsible for improving performance, improving testability, and identifying NAND reliability issues. Details

SSD Systems Engineer, Micron. As a Systems Engineer at Micron within the Enterprise Solid State Drive (SSD) Systems Engineering group, you will be responsible for taking solid state drives from design to high volume manufacturing. This role may present future opportunities for Product Leader or Group Leader positions. Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to: Performing firmware test and validation, performance characterization, manufacturing support and customer support. Improving performance, improving testability, and identifying NAND reliability issues. Performing electrical and physical failure analysis, implementation of new device qualifications, characterization development, and yield evaluation/improvement. Details

Elemental Technologies is hiring! We would love it if you could post some of our junior positions! Junior DevOps, Software Engineer I, Technical Support Engineer. For more information on these positions, please see http://www.elementaltechnologies.com/company/careers/open-positions

Partial list of jobs posted in the past week through LinkedIn (these are just a few of the hundreds of jobs listed)

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