July 16, 2007

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IN THE NEWS
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Oregon State University has reorganized several of its engineering departments into schools – a move to advance collaboration in education and research, spin out more new companies, and graduate new engineers who are ready to innovate. It is the College of Engineering's latest step to increase its impact as one of the nation's top engineering programs. OSU news release

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GRADUATE EXAMS
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Tuesday, July 17, 2-4 pm, KEC 3114. MS FINAL ORAL EXAM - Manan Grover. Major Professor: John Wager; Committee: Tom Plant, Douglas Keszler; GCR: Larry Chen. "Thin-Film Transistors with Amorphous Oxide Channel Layers." Details.

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JOBS
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As a member of the ABB US Corporate Research Software Architecture team, the Software Architect will assist ABB Product Development and R&D groups in appropriately applying best practices in software system architecture and design to enhance the reliability, security, maintainability, testability, and overall quality of ABB products. Details.

Sabroso Company, Quality Engineer. Provides leadership, technical support and judgement in the area of quality management systems with emphasis on customer requirements, continuous product quality and productivity improvement, both at the manufacturing facility and externally, such as suppliers, contract manufacturers or other Sabroso facilities. This position assures the food safety and specifications of products and processes through leading compliance initiatives to policies, procedures and standards. Responsible for planning, scheduling and organizing the Quality lab and staff to ensure adherence to Sabroso product specifications, GMPs, SSOPs, HACCP and governmental requirements. Details.

A software developer is needed to contribute to an existing simulation model of wildlife population dynamics. Work is being done in C++ and C#, using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2.0. The model is under active development, but has been in existence for many years and is already quite sophisticated. A team of two developers are presently working full time on this project. The new developer will work under contract to the University of Washington, but must be located in the Corvallis area. Details.

Student web designer. The Close to the Customer Project (C2C) at OSU is marketing a new service and needs a website to promote it. Details.

Software Engineer, Level 1, Jive Software. We are seeking an intelligent and highly motivated Software Engineer with excellent communication and trouble-shooting skills to join our support team. The ideal candidate is passionate about delighting customers, an excellent problem solver, and is self-directed. This is a terrific opportunity to join a highly motivated, growing team and to contribute daily to the success of our customers as well as cultivate advanced Java skills. Details.

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