September 10, 2007

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CALENDAR
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Thursday, September 13, 5:30pm - 8:30pm, Hewlett-Packard Building 10. Venture Capital Panel Comes to Corvallis. These Oregon Venture Capitalists are looking for investments in Oregon. If you just want to know how the industry works or might be approaching them for investment, you will want to be there. This will be an interesting discussion. We also will have time for the panel to take questions, so bring your questions! Details

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IN THE NEWS
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TekBots to Form Basis of Nationwide Scholastic Program. The idea of using small robots to help teach children the science and math at the core of engineering and technology has attracted a $3 million grant. The five-year funding from the National Science Foundation will help a University of Nebraska-Lincoln team take its Omaha program to teachers nationwide. Sioux City Journal

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GRADUATE EXAMS
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Wednesday, September 12, 2-4 pm, KEC 1007. MS FINAL ORAL EXAM - Neeraja Subrahmaniyan. Major Professor: Margaret Burnett; Committee: Curtis Cook, Carlos Jensen; GCR: Margaret Niess. "Explaining Debugging Strategies to End-User Programmers." Details

Friday, September 14, 10 am - noon, KEC 1005. MS FINAL ORAL EXAM - Andrew Tabalujan. Major Professor: Terri Fiez; Committee Karti Mayaram, Un-Ku Moon; GCR: David Hackleman. Details

Tuesday, September 18, 2-4 pm, KEC 3114. MS FINAL ORAL EXAM - Vaishnavi Narayanan. Major Professor: Margaret Burnett; Committee: Carlos Jensen, Curtis Cook; GCR: Richard Poppino. "Gender differences in end-user debugging strategies." Details

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JOBS
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Tutor – all subjects, Academics for Student Athletes (ASA). Tutor students in content areas, academic processes, and time management skills. Work closely with the ASA staff in communicating and documenting student progress to academic advisors. The ideal candidate is a student with previous tutoring experience and also has an interest in the field of education and teaching. Qualified candidates will have attained at least junior standing, a 3.0 GPA, have good communication and interpersonal skills, and have detailed knowledge of a specific subject area and/or a broad knowledge of many general education areas. Details

Are you passionate about open source? The open source education lab (http://osel.oregonstate.edu) is devoted to helping students become involved in contributing their time and talents to open source projects. At the heart of the organization are two or more paid student "open source evangelists." These students plan meetings, design programs, give presentations, and help maintain the OSEL infrastructure. If you are an OSU student, have an outgoing personality, like to speak to groups, are well organized, and are passionate about the open source movement, then contact either Professor Budd (budd@eecs.oregonstate.edu) or send a message to osel@lists.oregonstate.edu.

Register Now for the Sept. 11 & 12 Virtual Chat w/Intel. You are invited to join Intel for two Virtual Chats and a Virtual Career Fair! Come learn about Diversity at Intel! On September 11th and 12th, we are hosting two diversity-focused chat events and launching a two-week Virtual Career Fair. Join Anthony Neal-Graves, General Manager, Modular Communications Platform Division within Digital Enterprise Group (DEG), and Floy Campbell, Validation Platform Manager, Platform Validation and Engineering within DEG, for these web-based virtual events. Details

Avago Technologies is looking for creative, top level PhD or postdoc (Mixed-Signal/Sensors) students who are interested in industrial positions in an advanced development group (R&D) creating new and novel analog/mixed signal ICs + sensors in emerging markets such as smart phones, navigation products (mice), and green energy. The ideal candidate will be part of a small team. They will have the appropriate skills and should be self motivated to help define the problem and then generate and demonstrate a solution that contributes to business level, product success. Details

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