July 2, 2007

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IN THE NEWS
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Found in Translation. Words and language have always fascinated Michael Goodman, and at OSU, he has minored in Japanese. But it is his affinity for computers that is propelling the senior in the School of EECS. Combining his interests, he has created software that overcomes a barrier in translation. Terra Magazine

More Than Machines. Educating tomorrow’s electrical engineers has come to this: Teamwork, creativity and ownership are as important as the principles of theory and design. All get rolled into a box that first-year OSU students receive in their introduction to the field. These “TekBots” are far more than clever machines. Terra Magazine

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GRADUATE EXAMS
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Monday, July 9, 9-11 am, KEC 3114. PhD Final Oral Examination - Hongli Deng. Major Professor: Eric Mortensen; Committee: Ron Metoyer, Prasad Tadepalli, Luca Lucchese; GCR: Mike Pavol. "Image Feature Detection and Matching for Biological Object Recognition." 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.

HP has several jobs and internships still open! I am encouraging all procrastinating Beavers to head to www.hp.com/go/jobs and look for a job or internship. Interns would be students who are returning to school full-time, and Graduate jobs are for those who have graduated during this past school year. Details.

Information Technology - Assistant System Administrator. The Assistant System Administrator is an entry-level position tasked with assisting in the oversight of the day-to-day functions of the IT infrastructure of InsightsNow, supporting users, and deploying new IT-related systems. Details.

The Software Developer helps create and maintain InsightsNow application software. The Soft-ware Developer also provides analysis related to software design and development, solves problems and performs improvements to existing software solutions. Details.

Senior Software Engineer. InsightsNow, Inc. is seeking energetic and talented software developers for its development team. The software development team plays an important role in expanding the capabilities of InsightsNow’s industry-leading portfolio of real-time research services and the senior software engineer is a key member of the team. Details.

Web Developer. InsightsNow, Inc. is seeking an energetic and talented Web developer for its development team whose primarily role is to support our Consumer Management Solutions group. The software development team plays an important role in expanding the capabilities of InsightsNow's industry-leading portfolio of real-time marketing research services. Details.

Web Designer Intern Needed @ Lebanon Emergency Shelter. We are a group of people trying to start a homeless shelter in Lebanon, Oregon. We are speaking to all area churches seeking mentors for our approx. 30 homeless citizens, to move them into single apartments and help them learn to cope with life, state agencies, and job applications, among many other things like addictions. Details.

Instructor is looking for a grader for CS 195 Web Authoring for Fall term 2007. Duties include scoring up to 60 weekly projects based on a criteria list. Applicants must have xhtml, php, css experience and an excellent work ethic. Details.

Technical Writer - Calibre, Mentor Graphics. If you are a recent Electrical Engineering or Computer Science graduate interested in documenting the latest IC software development, then apply for a challenging Technical Writer position at Mentor Graphics. Details.

Design to Cost Engineer, GE Networked Solutions. We have a job opening as a contractor @ GE Security/Video in Salem OR for up to 12 months, would make someone a good internship. Details.

Puget Sound Energy (PSE), Energy Management Engineer. Duties include responsibility performing all aspects of efficiency projects with business customer facilities for several PSE energy efficiency Programs under tariffed electric conservation schedules. Specific duties may include 1) Managing and implementing all phases of projects with customers from development through final installation verification, 2) management of specific programs and initiatives, and 3) oversight of outside contractors. Assignments involve customer projects with technical complexity and assisting with the initial development of programs, including budgets and savings targets. Details.

CS Summer Internship. Work on scripting/testing related tasks to support needs of ongoing projects; Create automated test scripts and data sets to assist in determining state of delivered software; Assist in determining the quality of software at its current state of the development lifecycle; Execute and debug test automation suites and framework; Interact with developers, test architects and other team members; Identify and report product issues into the issue management tool - Serena TeamTrack; Manage automation assets via version management tool - Serena ChangeMan Version Manager. Details.

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