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January 22, 2008
--------------------------------------------------- The Willamette Valley Section of the Society of Women Engineers is sponsoring a banquet to celebrate Engineers Week. For over 50 years, Engineers Week has helped to promote awareness of the engineering profession and to encourage young people to consider a career in engineering. In celebration of this event, we would like to invite faculty, staff and students from the College of Engineering to attend this banquet. The banquet will be held Monday, February 25, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. at the CH2M Hill Alumni Center on the Oregon State University Campus in Corvallis, Oregon. We hope that you can join us to celebrate the many contributions made by engineers to our society. Details Wanted: Creative and Innovative Ideas. Are you an OSU student or a faculty member who might have in mind several students with good ideas looking to win a place in the sun? Enter your idea in the New Enterprise Challenge, OSU’s new university-wide business plan competition. The purpose of the Challenge is to give all OSU students the opportunity to take your creative and innovative ideas and turn them into a commercial venture. We’re looking forward to your participation and interest! The first Skill Building Seminar will be Tuesday, January 22nd in Weatherford Hall, Room EG01, 6:30pm-8pm. Guest Speaker will be Brian Sims of Brass Media, Inc. Details --------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- The SWE Scholarship Program provides financial assistance to women admitted to accredited baccalaureate or graduate programs, in preparation for careers in engineering, engineering technology and computer science. An online application for Undergraduate/Graduate students for the 2008-2009 school year is now available. (You can apply if you will be a sophomore, junior, senior, or graduate student in the Fall.) Details The prestigious Lee Kuan Yew Postdoctoral Fellowship (LKY PDF) was established in 1991 under the Lee Kuan Yew Endowment Fund. Applications are invited from young candidates who have obtained their degrees in the last few years and with excellent academic records and research potential for this prestigious research fellowship. It will be held concurrently with the candidate's appointment as a research staff in the School working on any of the following identified research areas: engineering; biological sciences, computer engineering, civil & environmental engineering, electrical & electronic engineering, materials science & engineering, or natural sciences. Details The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers unique research opportunities at NASA Centers, headquarters, and other facilities to highly talented national and international individuals who have completed their doctorate degree. APPLICANT INFORMATION: Applicants must have completed their doctorate degree or equivalent before beginning the fellowship; and U.S. citizenship, Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR) status, Employment Authorization Document (EAD) with pending LPR status, or J-1 Visa status as a Research Scholar before beginning the fellowship. Details Educational Testing Service, Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. Up to three fellows will be selected to conduct independent research in Princeton, New Jersey, in one of the following areas: psychology; education; teaching; learning; literacy; statistics; computer science; educational technology; minority issues; and testing issues, including new forms of assessment and alternate forms of assessment for special populations. The goals of the program are to provide research opportunities to individuals who hold a doctorate in the fields indicated above and to increase the number of women and underrepresented minority professionals conducting research in educational measurement and related fields. Details --------------------------------------------------- Don't forget to check out the AfterCollege job site, tailored especially for our EECS students. Centaur Software Engineering, one of the business partners working with the OSU Open Source Lab (http://osuosl.org) on the One Laptop Per Child (http://laptop.org) Helix video project (http://helixcommunity.org/), is looking to hire a part time programmer. This position requires skills in C++ and Python as well as familiarity with Linux development tools. Primary responsibilities will be modifications to the open source Helix producer code as it is integrated into the OLPC platform. Details Business Solutions Group, Student Developer. This is a great opportunity to gain real work experience in software development and add C# and Visual Studio.NET framework to your resume. Duties: Developing software for clients using Microsoft .NET technologies; Working in a team environment comprised of other students and full-time staff; Attending weekly trainings on new technologies and methods; Helping to make decisions regarding application architecture, development technologies, and techniques. Details Business Solutions Group, Student Analyst. Duties: Maintaining communication between developers and testers; Creating test plans and overall management of the testing of the software developed by BSG; Constructing and maintaining requirements documents, use case documents, and other documentation for software development projects; Making decisions regarding what testing methods to use as well as evaluating the effectiveness of the testing. Details Business Solutions Group, Student Test Engineer. In this position, students have an opportunity to learn technical skills and get hands on experience with some of the newest Computer Networking and Software Development technologies before they’ve entered the marketplace. Duties: Test pre-production Networking Hardware and Software; Building complex testing environments; Setup Hardware and install software; Keep up with emerging technologies; Continue to learn about networking technologies and share knowledge; Potentially develop test plans. Details Internships in Washington and Salem aren't just for political junkies anymore. Real world experience gained in a legislative office in Washington DC or at the state level gives you a competitive advantage -- no matter what field you're in. Information session: Thursday, January 24, 3:00 PM, MU 213. The session will include discussions with staff from Senator Gordon Smith's office, the Oregon Senate Majority Office, and OSU students who have served both in Washington DC and Salem. We will have information about scholarship and stipend opportunities. Details Career Services Winter Events Calendar. All events are FREE and open to all students. For more information about all events, please call 541-737-4085 or visit http://oregonstate.edu/career/
LAMP Web Developer. One Economy Corporation is a global nonprofit organization that uses innovative approaches to deliver the power of technology and information to low-income people, giving them valuable tools for building better lives. The LAMP Web Developer is responsible for helping design, implement and support One Economy’s family of web properties. The successful candidate will be responsible for building innovative Internet applications that leverage open source projects with custom/proprietary code as well as third party modules. Details Vestas Wind Systems A/S is the world leader in wind technology and a driving force in the development of the wind power industry. Vestas is very excited to announce that applications are now being accepted for our international Graduate Program. This is an excellent opportunity for upcoming graduates and recent graduates from 2007 to work in three different Vestas companies and locations around the world. The Graduates will be mentored and work on various challenging projects. Details Web applications programmer/designer intern. An up and coming independent musicians company is looking for a forward thinking, self motivated programmer intern to work with a project manager to develop an enterprise level web application. Requirements: database backend (MySql, MS SQL, not oracle or access); interactive front-end with client side scripting for smooth callbacks and user interaction; membership and roles system; GUI design for high volume; simpler is better user interface; template driven GUI (example: ASP.NET master pages). Details Software Development Engineer (SDE), Microsoft. This is where the fun begins for code gurus like you. As a hands-on Software Development Engineer, you’ll make decisions about design and feature implementation, using your mastery of technical tools to make a product vision a reality. If you like to write code and design efficient data structures and algorithms to develop next-generation applications or operating systems, this is the position for you. As an SDE, you’ll bring products to life by working with Program Managers to ensure strong design and Software Development Engineers in Test to ensure quality through testing. Details Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), Microsoft. As a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), you’ll own it, break it, fix it, and own it again. You’ll ensure a product’s quality by making sure it performs as users expect it to. Part of the fun is how creative you can be devising ways to manipulate, crush, and sabotage software into submission—while creating innovative testing technologies along the way. Details 3 Post-Doctoral Positions Available at NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA. We seek candidates for three (3) full time post-doctoral positions in the fields of Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, or Optics. The candidates should demonstrate their capabilities in one or more related areas of circuit design, micro-fabrication, development of advanced semiconductor materials, thermoelectric materials/device, micro-optical MEMS device, bio-nano materials, and/or microwave rectenna array circuit. Details Lebanon Emergency Shelter project. We are a group of people trying to start a homeless shelter in Lebanon, Oregon. We need someone to design a website for us which will allow us to keep people posted on our progress, needs, successes, and also tie in with Pay Pal to accept online donations. Details The Marine Mammal Institute is currently seeking assistance in software application development projects related to data management and visualization. They are seeking 1-2 interns or work-study students to participate in cutting-edge research by contributing to our application development effort. Contact: Tomas M. Follett, Research Assistant / Data Manager, Marine Mammal Institute, Oregon State University, 2030 SE Marine Science Drive, Newport, OR 97365, (541) 867-0164, tomas.follett@oregonstate.edu. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center, Atmospheres and the Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory Summer Institute. The Summer Institute on Atmospheric, Biospheric, and Hydrospheric Sciences (June 9 - August 15, 2008) is sponsored by the Earth Sciences Division of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland. This program is designed to introduce undergraduate students majoring in all areas of the physical sciences to research opportunities in the atmospheric, biospheric, hydrospheric, and solar and space plasma sciences, both theoretical and experimental. No previous experience in these sciences is needed. Details
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