April 30, 2007

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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Students: Be sure to ask your families to attend the Engineering Expo, which is being held on Friday, May 11 from 1-5 pm. For more information on the Expo, see http://engr.oregonstate.edu/expo2007/.

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IN THE NEWS
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Spreading opportunity: Sophomores Michael Burns and Justin Gallardo are working with international non profit organization One Laptop Per Child, which is producing the XO laptop. Corvallis Gazette-Times

Wands make their own magic. Like his father, Adriaan Smit came to the United States to earn an advanced degree in engineering. But he doesn’t plan to return to his native South Africa, as his father did, to launch a career. Portland Tribune

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COLLOQUIA/SEMINARS
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Monday, April 30, 11:00 - 11:50 AM, Kelley 1007. "Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits for Next Generation Communication Systems" presented by Bhaskar Banerjee, Graduate Research Assistant, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. Details.

Monday, April 30, 4:00 - 4:50 PM, Kelley 1001. "Which Supervised Learning Method Works Best for What? An Empirical Comparison of Learning Methods and Metrics++" presented by Rich Caruana, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Cornell University. Details.

Thursday, May 3, 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM, Kelley 1003. "Advanced Analysis, Design, and Measurement Techniques for Multi-Gb/s Data Links" presented by Frank O’Mahony, Senior Research Scientist, Circuit Research Lab, Intel. Details.

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JOBS
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Did you know that you can subscribe to the EECS Jobs List that will send you e-mail when new jobs are posted? Internships and even a few on-campus jobs get advertised there as well. Subscribe here.

Don't forget to check out the AfterCollege job site, tailored especially for our EECS students.

MLS Inc, Web Developer. A Eugene based publishing, printing and technology company is seeking a Web Developer for its application development team. This is a full-time, in-house, permanent position in a rapidly growing division of a 100 year old company. We will consider an internship and / or part-time position initially as well. Details.

Analog/Mixed Signal Design Engineer, Cirrus Logic. Full time positions are available for recent alumni as well as current MSEE and PhDEE students planning to graduate from Spring 2007 to Spring 2008. In this position you will be responsible for designing CMOS analog blocks for AtoD and DtoA converters for Cirrus Logic's market leading Industrial, Mixed Signal Audio and Embedded applications. You will participate in all aspects of the design –architectural development; transistor level design and circuit simulation; layout supervision for the analog subsections for your project; simulation of the IC from transistor level to systems level and lab validation. Details.

Software Developer. Great entry-level position for someone who will be graduating with a degree in Computer Science. Join a dynamic software development team working on innovative web-based applications! Great position for a Computer Science grad with a desire to grow and be successful! We're looking for someone very passionate about technology! The Software Developer will work in our Professional Services Group on deployment projects for our customers. You will be working with state of the art technology, web-based workflow and application automation software. Details.

Software QA Tester. Great position for a recent college graduate who is looking to take the next step in their career. Great position for a Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or similar degree with a desire to grow and be successful! We provide the training and the tools you need! We’re a fun group and your contribution would be greatly valued! You will work closely with our Product Team to unit-test and regression-test our releases. We are looking to grow our team, so this position will have the potential to provide testing expertise to other parts of our organization as well. Details.

I am looking for some help on a webpage design. I am promoting a local artist and the next step in the project is get a webpage up and running. I could use a creative and smart individual with exceptional webpage savvy. This could be an interesting addition to your portfolio if it works out. I will pay for your services and I will negotiate a fair and reasonable price either by the job or by the hour. I estimate that the work may take 8-10 hours. You will have to justify more time if it takes longer and I am willing to listen to your proposal. You may call me on (541)-967-5916 if this sounds like an opportunity for a few extra bucks. (I get a lot of email. I will only provide an address after we have talked). Thanks!

Software Engineer. GemStone is looking for a highly motivated, team player to work as a software engineer on our GemFire team. We work on cutting edge data management products that transform the way businesses operate. Based on complex event processing, distributed caching, and continuous monitoring of high volume data streams, our products enable real-time decision-making. We work with many technologies including: distributed systems, continuous querying/stream processing; materialized views; multi-query optimization; distributed querying; scalable distributed data structures; concurrent data structures; main-memory databases; fault-tolerance paradigms; SQL; p2p network topologies. Details.

Biotronik/Micro Systems Engineering Inc, Software Engineer. This is a technical position with the Information Technology Group at the US Head Quarters of Biotronik GmbH (Micro Systems Engineering Inc). This individual should have broad knowledge and expertise in various programming languages and should thoroughly understand software development life cycle. Details.

Networking Technology lab at Intel is looking for an intern for 3 to 6 months to join a research project to characterize network I/O performance in server systems. In this position, you will be focusing on new 2x1GbE and 2x10GbE NICs and study capabilities such as DCA. You would also conduct an in-depth analysis of end-to-end latency between two server systems. Details.

I have an analytical instrument that produces ASCII text files and would like to hire someone to write a computer program (VBASIC ? C?) that reads in those files and then parses and manipulates the data in various ways and produces a simple report (I use excel now and it is inadequate for this purpose). Programs should run on XP machine. I estimate 10-20 hours of work at ~ $ 10/hr. Contact Jack.Istok@orst.edu to apply.

ELECTRICAL POWER ENGINEER. We have an immediate opening for an entry level Electrical Power Engineer for our Eugene, Oregon office. Evergreen was established in 1985, and is a multi-discipline, full-service consulting engineering firm. Evergreen offers a competitive salary, benefits package, and a relaxed working environment. Evergreen provides engineering for a variety of industries, including wood products, power generation, pulp and paper, chemical, and metals. See our web site at www.evergreenengineering.com. Send resume to Evergreen Engineering, PO Box 21530, Eugene, OR 97402-0409 or eugene@evergreenengineering.com (Attn: Power). No calls please.

Multiple postdoc positions in AI, natural language understanding, machine learning, knowledge representation, and ubiquitous / pervasive computing are now available for a variety of projects at the University of Rochester. For details, please visit http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/kautz/aipostdocs.html.

Lead Development Specialist, Mentor Graphics. Needed to support key sales and marketing initiatives by identifying, qualifying, and penetrating target accounts resulting in new business. Lead development responsibilities require significant teleprospecting in a business to business environment and use of internet/internal database resources to identify and profile new markets. Opportunity assessment will include communication at the executive level to position the company's emerging hot products and identify key decision makers. Details.

Theories, lectures, memorization and papers--you've invested time, effort and money to obtain an education. Now pair academic knowledge with real-life business experience and take your learning and skills to the next level. Put your academic learning to the test with an Intel internship.Our internships provide an excellent way to see Intel from the inside. You can put your education to work while interacting with exciting technologies that are changing the way the world lives, plays and works. Undergraduate and graduate level internships are available at all their major U.S. sites. Details.

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