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EECS News: Headlines

February 18, 2008


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IN THE NEWS
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Tech's feminine side. No one would make the argument that megapixels are masculine or that gigabytes have a gender. But as gadgets and websites become an integral part of everyday life, a high-tech world that has been largely built and engineered by men is getting the feminine touch. Laura Beckwith, now at Microsoft, found during her doctoral research at Oregon State University that women's confidence levels seemed to determine whether they used spreadsheet debugging tools that were the key to correcting formula mistakes, such as in a payroll or grading spreadsheet. Boston Globe

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OPPORTUNITIES
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Attention EECS students! Registration is still open for the February 19 Industry Reception. Whether you're looking for an internship, job, or just interested in learning more about your career options, you should attend this event. Details

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 students from the College of Engineering to attend this banquet. The banquet will be attended by industry professionals from throughout the Willamette Valley.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Jane Lubchenco, the Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology and Distinguished Professor of Zoology at Oregon State University will be our keynote speaker. 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.

There are a limited number of sponsored tickets available for engineering students to attend the banquet. If you are interested in attending this banquet, please stop by the Undergraduate Engineering Office to sign up (151 Batcheller Hall). Denise Emery is handling student sign ups. Signups are on a first come, first serve basis. If you have questions or need more information, you can contact Denise by e-mail (denise.emery@oregonstate.edu) or call her at (541) 737-4645.

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.

How to Create Assignments with Primary Sources: Setting Students up for Success
Wednesday, February 27, 9:00-12:00

Using Effective Questions to Engage Students
Tuesday, March 4, 9:00-Noon

Engaging Students in Large Classes through Course Redesign and the Living Syllabus
Wednesday, March 12, 1:00-3:00

The Society of Manufacturing Engineers will be hosting a tour of Wah Chang on February 22nd at 2:30pm. If you are interested going on the tour please send a e-mail to vanwinkg@onid.orst.edu by Friday February 18th. In the e-mail please include your full legal name and state if you are a U.S. citizen.

Cretaceous Software hereby announces the SOA Software Development Contest, a programming competition featuring a grand prize of up to $5000.00 in tuition assistance. Are you a talented developer who likes to master new, cutting-edge technologies? Are you interested in tackling the unique challenges associated with service oriented architecture? Would you like to have someone else pay your tuition next semester? If so, then grab a can of Red Bull, download the latest version of the Delve SOA Toolkit, and get cracking. The coolest, most impressive project making use of Tectonic, the world's first true service-oriented programming language, will earn its author up to $5000.00 toward his or her next tuition payment. Details

BeaverBarCamp 2008, February 29th - 6:30-11:00pm & March 1st - 9:00am - 11:00pm, Kelley Engineering Center. BeaverBarCamp is a gathering for technically minded people in Corvallis to share and learn in an informal social environment. The Free event will feature discussions, demos and collaboration. The content for the BeaverBarCamp sessions are be decided by the participants. Details

Study Abroad Scholarship Information Session, Wednesday, February 20, 4pm, Snell 448. Planning to go abroad sometime during the 2008-2009 academic year or beyond? Hoping to find a scholarship to help you pay for it? Come to the Study Abroad Scholarship Information Session! During this session, general advice on searching and applying for scholarships will be given, in addition to details on several specific scholarships with upcoming deadlines.

International Degree Information Session, Thursday, February 28, 4pm, Snell 448. Learn how to earn a 2nd bachelor’s degree in International Studies! OSU’s unique International Degree program provides students in any major with the opportunity to explore your field in an international context, while gaining language proficiency and experience abroad. Come to the information session to learn more!

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COLLOQUIA/SEMINARS
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Monday, February 18, 10:45 - 11:50 AM, Kelley 1007. "Automatically Generating Personalized Adaptive User Interfaces" presented by Krzysztof Gajos, Computer Science Faculty Candidate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington. Details

Monday, February 18, 4:00 - 4:50 PM, Kelley 1001. "Integrated On-Chip Inductors Using Magnetic Material" presented by Donald S. Gardner, Circuits Research Lab, Intel Labs, Hillsboro, OR. Details

Wednesday, February 20, 10:45 - 11:50 AM, Kelley 1007. "K-Sketch: A “Kinetic” Sketch Pad for Novice Animators" presented by Richard Davis, Computer Science Faculty Candidate, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California at Berkeley. Details

Friday, February 22, 10:45 - 11:50 AM, Kelley 1005. "Efficient Statistical Inference and its Applications for Computer Vision" presented by Brian Potetz, Computer Science Faculty Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University. Details

Monday, February 25, 10:45 - 11:50 AM, Kelley 1007. "When is a good time? Mediating Notification Delivery to Reduce Cost of Interruption" presented by Shamsi T. Iqbal, Computer Science Faculty Candidate, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Details

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GRADUATE EXAMS
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Tuesday, February 19, 12-2 pm, KEC 1007. PhD Final Oral Examination - Triet Le. Major Professors: Terri Fiez, Kartikeya Mayaram; Committee: Huaping Liu, Andreas Weisshaar; GCR: Joe Zaworski. "Efficient Power Conversion Interface Circuits for Energy Harvesting Applications." Details

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SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS
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Each year the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) gives a broad array of scholarships to recognize achievement by blind scholars. The NFB Computer Science Scholarship is for study in the computer science field. Applicants must be legally blind and must be pursuing or planning to pursue a full-time, postsecondary course of study in a degree program at a United States' institution in the fall of the 2008-2009 academic year, except that one scholarship may be given to a person employed full-time while attending school part-time. 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.

Qlubb (www.qlubb.com) is looking to build the next-generation group portal for clubs, teams, families, groups around the world. With event calendaring, group blogging, photo sharing, group to-do lists, automatic public webpage generation, event registration, among other features, Qlubb is set to revolutionize the way groups interact with other members and communicate with the rest of the world. Qlubb is looking for world-class web2.0 developers with experience in web design, user interfaces and specifically in AJAX and Ruby-on-Rails technologies (Ruby on Rails experience is ideal but not necessary if you have a good object-oriented programming foundation). Details

List of organizations offering internships at the upcoming Career Fair on Tuesday, February 19, 2008.

List of organizations offering internships at the Engineering Fair, on Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Centuria Corporation currently works with the Patent and Trademark Office in Harrisonburg Virginia and is always on the lookout for quality candidates to fill a number of entry level roles in a variety of backgrounds. We are in need of candidates who have finished their schooling are US Citizens looking for a good career working with others in their field of interest. Details

Want to earn amazing resume experience and get your foot in the door of one of the world's top companies? Apply today to be a Dell Campus Representative! Selected students will join a national network of college marketing reps to promote Dell products and services to students, faculty and staff. Each university is different, so Dell is looking for entrepreneurs to help plan and execute promotional strategies on their campus. Dell Campus Reps are expected to work several hours each week to implement marketing techniques. Details

Summer 2008 Aerospace Science and Engineering Research Opportunities at the University of Illinois - Application Deadline Feb 29, 2008. The Department of Aerospace Engineering (AE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) announces Summer 2008 Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs). Funding for the REUs comes from a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant. The ten-week research program focuses on multidisciplinary research in aerospace science and engineering (ASE). We invite highly motivated juniors (rising seniors) with backgrounds in engineering, computer science, and physics to apply for an REU position. Details

The Oregon Health & Science University Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology (DMICE) Summer Undergraduate Research Program provides paid internship opportunities for students to work intensively with faculty on research projects for ten weeks during the summer. The program’s goals are to introduce students to research projects in biomedical informatics, facilitate interactions with DMICE faculty and to increase awareness among undergraduates about this exciting field. Students will be able to present their research projects at the end of the program in a minisymposium. Details

Design Engineer - Full time and Internship, Garmin. Design and develop electronic circuits, equipment, systems, and products. Design, debug, and test digital, analog, Radio Frequency (RF), and/or Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC); Prepare or direct preparation of product layouts, detailed drawings and schematics; Direct and coordinate manufacture of prototypes; Plan and develop experimental test programs to verify compliance to all applicable regulations and quality guidelines. Details

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER: FAILURE ANALYST, RELIABILITY GROUP. The Electrical Engineer will report to the Director of Reliability, and work with the VP of Engineering and their team in the development of new solar power inverter products and functionalities. Responsibilities include detailed failure analysis and corrective action for grid-linked solar power inverters. Candidate should be capable, after 1-2 years at this position, of transitioning into an inverter reliability assurance or design role. The goals and objectives of this position include: Inverter failure analysis and root cause determination, corrective action implementation and employ lessons learned from earlier products as well as personal experience, research, and analysis. Details

Student Data Administrator - The University Honors College is looking for a Data Administrator with appropriate technical skills to manage database systems and websites for the college. The Data Administrator will work as a team member in a fast paced environment and will be responsible for maintaining the UHC’s websites on a day-to-day basis and for the development and maintenance of long-term programming projects. An ideal candidate will possess skills in XHTML, PHP, CSS, and have familiarity with both MySQL and MSAccess. Details

Tripod Data Systems, SOFTWARE ENGINEER 2-Forestry Automation. Tripod Data Systems provides industry leading technologies to a diverse set of clients in rugged outdoor markets. We are looking for a junior to mid-level software developer to help us create new vertical solutions. Upcoming projects will offer challenges in GPS tracking, GIS, Fleet and Asset Management, Scheduling and Optimization, Process Control, and Mobile Workforce. Typical work includes the support and on-going development of existing software implementations as well as new product development. Details

Department of Biological and Ecological Engineering, Oregon State University, Fixed Term Faculty Research Position. The Department of Biological and Ecological Engineering invites you to apply for a fixed-term, Faculty Research Assistant, Instrumentation and Measurement Technologist, position in the areas of advanced instrumentation for hydrologic characterization. Applicants should at a minimum have an earned Masters of Science degree in Civil Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, Forest Engineering, Physics, Environmental Science or related degrees. Details

Front-end Web Developer. The OSU Libraries, Emerging Technologies and Services Department has one position open for a student worker Web Developer. The main responsibilities of the position include: Coding web interfaces using XHTML, CSS and some JavaScript; Assisting Library staff with web updates/maintenance/troubleshooting as needed; Creating and updating code and content in Drupal. Details

Graduate Intern Technical, Intel. Responsibilities may be quite diverse of an exempt technical nature. Experience and education requirements will vary significantly depending on the unique needs of the job. Job assignments are usually for the summer or for short periods during breaks from school. You should be a student currently pursuing a Bachelor or a Master of Science degree or a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or an equivalent college program. You should have basic VLSI design, architecture, CAD tool programming skills as well as basics communication skills. Details

Undergraduate Intern Technical, Intel. Responsibilities may be quite diverse of a nonexempt technical nature. Experience and education requirements will vary significantly depending on the unique needs of the job. Job assignments are usually for the summer or for short periods during breaks from school. Internships are from three to nine months. You should be enrolled in a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or equivalent college program. Additional qualifications include: VLSI design, Architecture, CAD tool programming; VLSI design or architecture basics communication skills. Details

Graphics Software Engineer – Intern. Intel Corporation is looking for a summer intern for 2008. In this position, you will be in Oregon and/or Texas in the Visual Computing Group in Intel. We are looking for an energized graphics software engineer to work on components of the graphics driver. You must be a current graduate student in Computer Science or Computer Engineering. Additional qualifications include: Strong C and/or C++ programming skills, Windows* programming, and graphics API (Direct3D*) experience; Experience with C++ and/or C, Direct3D* and/or OpenGL*; Working experience in designing and/or developing graphics drivers for Windows* operating systems would be an added advantage. Details

Software Media Intern, Intel. Do you have a passion for media technologies? Are you an expert in multithreaded software development? Do you want to deliver industry-leading innovations for Intel's future products? If so, join the newly formed team responsible for the architecture, design and implementation of video codecs, image and display processing, audio processing and content protection technologies that strongly compete with the best PC and CE products. In this position, you will be working closely with hardware architects and designers on hardware and/or software interfaces, substantially influence the overall driver and media architecture, and deliver production-quality media technologies. Details

Validation Engineer Intern LRB, Intel. The Visual Computing Group Product Validation team is looking for a recent college graduate with training in software development and modern graphics libraries (Open GL* and Direct X*). Experience with GPGPU coding (CUDA and/or CTM) is preferred. In this position, you will be responsible for developing product test suites to validate the latest in world-class graphics and multicore technologies. Details

Manufacturing Engineer Intern, Intel. In this position, you will be responsible for providing Manufacturing Assembly Instructions and training to factories, and ongoing factory support as necessary in support of product specific issue resolution and product improvement. Details

Software Engineer Intern, Intel. The Software Engineering team in the Visual Computing Group (VCG) at Intel is looking for a summer intern for 2008. We are looking for an energized software engineer to work on various components of a configuration application and tools for Intel's next generation graphics hardware. In this position, you will be working with experienced engineers on software design and implementation. Details

Gfx SW Driver Arch/Eng. Intel's Visual Computing Group is seeking recent college engineers for all aspects related to graphics driver development. This includes driver areas such as 3D API's such as OpenGL* and DirectX*, Video Basic Input Output system (VBIOS), display drivers, operating system and simulation system development. In this position, you will be developing parts of the graphics drivers under the guidance of other senior engineers who will mentor and guide you in developing large scale software for highly complex systems, both with regards to writing high performing and maintainable software. As you develop your expertise, you will be influencing the design and architecture of next generation graphics systems. Details

RCG Software Engineer, Intel. Job Description: The Software Engineering team in the Visual Computing Group (VCG) is looking for a skillful recent college graduate (RCG) software engineer to help implement a configuration application for next generation graphics hardware. The RCG will be working with a team of software engineers to define, design and implement the configuration application in a Windows environment. This position requires strong programming skills, reading and implementing features according to specification, and interacting with other engineering groups. Details

Operating Systems Engineer, Intel. The newly formed Visual Computing Group is seeking a number of smart software engineers and/or architects with expertise with operating system internals and drivers to make extensive changes to a Unix operating system for this specialized application. In this position, you will be helping drive requirements for hardware interfaces and substantially influence the overall driver architecture and execution direction. You will be working on drivers, major kernel changes, exception and interrupt handlers, firmware, encryption services, thermal and power management, performance analysis, advanced MP thread scheduling, unique page fault handling, and many others. Details

Validation Engineer, Intel. The Visual Computing Group Product Validation team is looking for a recent college graduate with training in software development and modern graphics libraries (OpenGL* and Direct X*). Experience with GPGPU coding (CUDA and/or CTM) is preferred. In this position, you will be responsible for developing product test suites to validate the latest in world-class graphics and multicore technologies. Details

Design Engineer, Intel. As a CMOS Custom Digital and or Analog design engineer, your responsibilities will include but not be limited to: Designing custom digital circuit blocks (custom circuit types include RAM, ROM, PLA, Register file and rithmetic Data Path); Planning and supervising circuit verification, performance validation layout; Debugging post-silicon circuit Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) Design; Responsible for Register Transfer Level (RTL) development, Synthesis and APR using industry standard tools; Planning and supervising circuit verification, performance validation layout; Debugging post-silicon circuit. Details

Front-End Design engineer, Intel. In this position, your responsibilities will include but not be limited to: Developing Device modules including micro-architectural specification, Register Transfer Level (RTL) coding, and Synthesis; Converging RTL design to support very high frequency APR and custom design; Developing behavioral models and logic test bench's using industry standard verification languages; Developing and executing test plans from architectural specification. Details

Media Sofware Engineer, Intel. The Visual Computing Group is responsible for the architecture, design and implementation of video codec technology, image and video processing algorithms, and content protection solutions that strongly compete with the best PC and CE products. In this position, you will be working closely with hardware architects and designers on hardware and/or software interfaces, substantially influence the overall driver and media architecture, and deliver production-quality media technologies. Details

Summer 2008 Internship Opportunities at National Semiconductor: Details

Applications Engineer
Work with senior Applications Engineers to define and develop hardware and software solutions to evaluate analog and mixed-signal circuits. Projects typically involve a strong hands-on component, including the development of lab setups and the taking of measurements to carry out the evaluations. Other activities include creating simulation models, helping write application notes, and developing reference designs.

CAD Engineer
The intern will work with software tools to perform a range of tasks, including circuit modeling and simulation, verification, and final validation for IC designs in a variety of the company’s silicon processes. Background in circuit design and semiconductor device physics is needed, and familiarity with current EDA tools is preferred.

Circuit Design Engineer
The intern will be responsible for the design of analog and/or mixed-signal circuits. Projects typically involve circuit simulation, IC layout, and silicon characterization. Background in analog circuit design, semiconductor device physics, Cadence design tools, IC layout, and laboratory test equipment is preferred.

Device / Process Integration Engineer
Work with senior Device and Integration engineers to develop and qualify a range of new process technologies for the company, including Bipolar, BiCMOS, CMOS, and DMOS.
Projects can include device-level modeling and electrical characterization work, as well as bench test validation to debug new process issues.

Product Engineer
The intern will be responsible for helping release new products and sustain existing products in manufacturing. Projects typically involve the coordination of device tapeout, overseeing start of prototype lots, arranging for sample unit assembly, device failure analysis, device characterization, statistical determination of datasheet limits, yield study analysis, and release to manufacturing.

Systems Development Engineer
Help to define requirements for customer systems and/or prepare studies and analyze existing systems. Projects typically involve determining system specifications, input/ output processes and working parameters for hardware/software compatibility. Specific job assignments may place particular emphasis on either hardware or software systems.

Test Development Engineer
Work with a new product development team to develop test solutions for a variety of analog circuits/devices and for the release of those systems to manufacturing. Projects typically include PCB design, test software development, test system debug, and data analysis. Background in analog circuits and C++ programming skills is required.

The Biomedical Informatics Graduate Program at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) announces the availability of summer internships for qualified students with an interest in pursuing careers in the field. Biomedical informatics is the field concerned with the application of information technology to a wide variety of problems in health care and biomedical research. Opportunities are available for participation in a number of ongoing research projects at OHSU. Details


 

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