January 14, 2008

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OPPORTUNITIES
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The New Enterprise Challenge. Does your new invention or original business idea have what it takes to attract the attention of significant investors? The New Enterprise Challenge is a business plan competition created and sponsored by OSU's Austin Entrepreneurship Program. The Challenge is an opportunity for OSU students to present their business ideas to business experts including successful entrepreneurs, senior executives, venture advisors, and venture investors. The best business plans will receive cash awards: first prize - $10,000; second prize - $5,000; third prize: $2,500. Details

The Center for Teaching and Learning will be offering several workshops during winter term. All faculty and graduate assistants are welcome! Refreshments will be provided at all workshops. All workshops will be held in Milam 215. Registration is required for all workshops. Please register on our website at http://oregonstate.edu/ctl, send an e-mail to CTL@oregonstate.edu, or call 737-2809.

• Survival Skills for New Instructors. Wednesday, January 23, 1:30-3:00
• Effective Use of Collaborative Learning in the Classroom. Tuesday, January 29, 9:00-Noon

SWE presents the Third Annual Engineering Ball on Saturday, February 16, 7-11 pm in the Kelley Atrium. This year's theme is a Masquerade! Come masked, costumed, or playfully painted! (Modest masks will be available for purchase at the door.) The Engineering Ball is a semiformal social event for students, staff, faculty, and professionals, along with their friends and family, to socialize, dance, talk, listen to live music (performed by some of OSU's own talented engineering student bands), and enjoy one another's company! Why: Engineers need to hone their socializing skills and have a rollicking good time! Tickets are $10 each or $15 for two people, available in the MU ticket office. At the door, add $3. Dance Lessons 7-8 pm.

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COLLOQUIA/SEMINARS
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Monday, January 14, 4:00 - 4:50 PM, Kelley 1001. "Knowledge Transfer in Reinforcement Learning" presented by Soumya Ray, Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Oregon State University. 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.

Companies that will be interviewing at the Career Center during Winter Term. Some have deadlines for applications and others it states that students will need to attend the Career Fair on 2/19 or 2/20 and speak with a representative about a possible interview. A number of the companies are also holding informational sessions in the evenings, if a student is either on the company interview schedule or wanting more information about the company, I recommend attendance. For companies that students apply on-line through Beaver Recruiting System, they would go to www.oregonstate.edu/career/. Students do have accounts established as they would use their FULL ONID account for username and first 4 digits of their birth month and day. The Career Services had at one time an account with Benny Beaver, but have retired him and only students can create accounts.

Only 1 in 10 students from low-income communities will graduate from college--and you have the power to change this. TEACHFORAMERICA Information Session. Thursday, January 17, 6:30 pm, Memorial Union Room 211: American Indian. Refreshments will be served.

Instructor is looking for a grader for CS 295 Intermediate Web Authoring for Winter term 2008. Duties include scoring up to 60 weekly projects based on a criteria list. Applicants must have XHTML, CSS, PHP, some MySQL experience and an excellent work ethic. Contact Ms Van Londen at vanlondp@eecs.oregonstate.edu with examples of web sites built and previous work experience.

Are you interested in conducting research at the US Department of Energy’s largest multi-purpose laboratory? Do you know someone who would be an excellent intern, participating in world-class research with world-class scientists? Would you like to get paid to learn? Are you interested in expanding your resumé? Would you like to gain research experience before entering the workforce or graduate school? Learn more about the following programs: Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) Program; Community College Institute (CCI) Program; Pre-Service Teacher (PST) Program; Faculty and Student Teams (FaST) Program. Details

Intrigo is looking for bright and talented students in the Portland area who get as excited about creating great web applications as we do. Intrigo makes web applications nearly exclusively (as opposed to desktop apps). This particular job opening is intended for college students who are studying Computer Science or Software Engineering (or equivalent) and want to get real experience making web applications for a real software company. This job pays $15/hr for someone with strong existing web application skills and we're looking for someone who can put in at least 20 hours a week. Details

The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) is administering The Naval Research Enterprise Intern Program (NREIP) sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR). NREIP is a ten week summer research opportunity for undergraduate Juniors & Seniors, and Graduate students, under the guidance of a mentor, at a participating Navy Laboratory (list of participating universities is available at http://www.asee.org/nreip). Details

OSU Marketing Club needs someone who would be willing to help us with our club website. We are hoping to find someone who could do it for class credit, just needs the experience, or would like a recommendation from us in return. Anyone would like to help or has any questions can contact either Rebecca Refvem [refvemr@onid.oregonstate.edu] or myself. Requirements: Experience with web design. Contact: Matt Baldwin (baldmatt@onid.orst.edu) Rebecca Refvem [refvemr@onid.oregonstate.edu]

We are seeking a qualified undergraduate to assist in bioinformatic research in fungal evolutionary biology. Bioinformatics and computational biology involve the use of techniques including applied mathematics, informatics, statistics, computer science, artificial intelligence, chemistry, and biochemistry to solve biological problems usually on the molecular level. Informatics includes the science of information, the practice of information processing, and the engineering of information systems. The main tasks associated with this position are writing computer scripts to mine fungal genomes for relevant DNA and protein data for use in evolutionary analyses and to assist in web page management. Details

Nonprofit Opportunity Expo, Thursday, January 24, 2-5 pm, MU Ballroom. Meet local, state, and national nonprofit organizations looking for interns, volunteers, and employees. Details

Maxim Integrated Products, Multimedia Business Unit, Summer Intern. Maxim is seeking summer interns to design application circuits, programming for EV-KITs of newly released products, assemble printed circuit boards, simulate integrated circuits, perform general lab work, draft drawings in Visio, and edit technical documents. The exact nature of the summer assignment will depend upon the student’s interests and aptitude. Details

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