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EECS News: Headlines

April 14, 2008


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IN THE NEWS
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Near the end of February a group of students came by the Parallax office with a project and a bid for help; Parallax answered that bid. We supplied these students with a Propeller QuadRover and armed them with a few electronic parts to get them on their way, after a few words were spent between Parallax Engineers and the brave students from the Oregon State University Robotics Club (OSURC), they were on their way. Parallax

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COLLOQUIA/SEMINARS
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Monday, April 14, 4:00 – 4:50 PM , Kelley 1001. "Crash: How a Billion Little Collisions Define Everything" presented by Jack Aboutboul, Red Hat, Inc. Details

Monday, April 21, 4:00 - 4:50 PM, Kelley 1001. "Oregon State VLSI Research Group Overview" presented by Patrick Chiang, Assistant Professor, School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Oregon State University. Details

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GRADUATE EXAMS
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Tuesday, April 15, 3-5 pm, KEC 3114. PhD Oral Preliminary Examination - Scott Proper. Major Professor: Prasad Tadepalli; Committee: Thomas Dietterich, Alan Fern, Ron Metoyer; GCR: Jack Higginbotham. "Solving Multiagent Assignment Markov Decision Processes." Details

Friday, April 18, 3-5 pm, KEC 3114. PhD Oral Preliminary Examination - Guohua Hao. Major Professor: Thomas Dietterich; Committee: Alan Fern, Prasad Tadepalli, Weng-Keen Wong; GCR: Jack Barth. "Effective Training and Feature Induction in Sequential Supervised Learning." Details

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OPPORTUNITIES
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RedHat is coming to campus! Please join ACM, LUG and the Business club in KEC 1001 @ 5:30 on Monday. Jack Aboutboul will be sharing more about life at RedHat. EVERYONE is invited! (You do not have to be a club member to attend.) Plus there is pizza afterward, so be sure to get there in time to get a good seat.

Speaker Bio:
Jack Aboutboul is Red Hat's Community Engineer and has been a Linux and Open Source user, developer, advocate and enthusiast for over a decade. Jack has the unusual honor of being dubbed "godfather" of the Fedora Ambassadors and currently spends his time working on Fedora related community outreach projects. Jack has previously worked on Gentoo Linux amongst other Open Source projects, including working with Creative Commons to help create the groundbreaking LiveContent distribution, last August.

Microgravity Flight Team Meeting @ 6 pm, Mondays, Dearborn 209. This year's MGFT project is "Spray Cooling of Electrical Components and Hardware with the Use of Electrical Fields." All students are welcome. If you're interested in joining the MGFT, come to a meeting and check us out! And/or, visit our web site at http://groups.engr.oregonstate.edu/microgravity.

The College of Engineering needs your help! Sign up to volunteer at the Engineering Expo, a college-wide showcase event that's attended by hundreds of visitors. The event, which will be on Friday, May 9 at the Kelley Engineering Center, features over 100 senior projects, a Robo*Palooza, and green energy projects. All volunteers will receive a free Expo t-shirt. To sign up, go to http://engr.oregonstate.edu/wme/volunteer/volviewevent.php.

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SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS
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Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), Recent Master's, Bachelor's, and Associate's Degree Grads. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Postmasters Research Participation provides opportunities to participate in research in a broad range of science and engineering activities related to basic sciences, energy, and the environment. Details

Council of Graduate Schools (CGS), CGS/UMI Distinguished Dissertation Awards. The CGS/University Microfilms International Distinguished Dissertation Award honors outstanding doctoral dissertations in fields of study that rotate on a two-year cycle. The 2008 fields of competition are Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering; and Social Sciences. 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.

Applications Engineer I, Lattice Semiconductor. Lattice's Enterprise Solutions Applications Engineering team is a very unique and multifaceted group within Lattice. The Applications group is tasked with supporting the majority of Lattice's hardware and software products by working extensively with our customers, and our sales organization. To facilitate this support the group must also interface with most of the design and development groups in the company. In this position the qualified candidates responsibilities will involve working with Lattice's sale's organization to support customer hardware and software design issues. This will lead to involvement in the development of support related documentation, hardware and software. Details

ASSOCIATE PROCESS ENGINEER (Engineer in Training Program), ConAgra Foods. The goal of this program is to give new hire engineers meaningful exposure and insight into operations, processes, and mechanical exposure within our facilities. This experience will be valuable in future decision making and understanding and allow for an optimum transition into an engineering role within our company. Be assigned to a training program that would last one to two years, depending on when the employee completes the Process Quality (PQ) Certification Program. The initial assignment within the program would be working as a Team Leader Production position in one of our facilities. Will be required to complete Foundations of Leadership and the PQ Training Programs and would be required to complete the PQ Certification. Assignments during this time would include Engineering and/or Maintenance projects when possible. Details

Electronic Engineer, Intel Corporation Digital Enterprise Group (DEG). In this position, you will be responsible to research, design, develop, and test leading Intel CPU's. Your responsibilities will include but not be limited to: Developing next-generation CPU designs, including micro-architecture, circuit design, and timing convergence; Validating design and micro-architectural implementation and assumptions; Developing solutions to problems utilizing formal education and judgment; Automating design tasks in order to complete the CPU in the most efficient and expeditious fashion possible. Details

Physical Design Engineer, Intel Corporation Digital Enterprise Group (DEG). In this position, you will be responsible for bridging the current gap between engineering and mask design. The layout work required encompasses transistor and/or device and cell level planning, layout, assembly and routing. In this position, you will be independently analyzing and comprehensively planning for fub-to-section physical design convergence which also encompasses aspects of Performance Verification (PV) versus Physical Design (PD) constraint navigation. Details

CS Internship, Alyrica Networks, Inc. This is an internship position with the potential of leading, after graduation, to a permanent career position. The Alyrica Tech I Internship position is a full- or part-time position intended for CS students with a moderate background in computers and networking. We are looking for talented, motivated people who can learn on their feet while working in a dynamic environment with a variety of information systems. Details

Product Marketing Engineer, Lattice Semiconductor. The Product Marketing organization is looking for an individual with a desire to excel and contribute in a high impact organization. This organization interfaces to almost every functional group in the company, including executive management. The key responsibilities for a qualified candidate include new product launches, product pricing for an assigned region of the world, and manage the Lattice worldwide price book. Details

Test Development Engineer, Lattice Semiconductor. This is a great opportunity to join Lattice's FreedomChip development group. This recently introduced product family is the industry's first FPGA with built in ASIC test capability. It provides customers with a seamless, high quality cost reduction path for Lattices flagship high end 90nm SC FPGA devices. This role will have direct impact on the introduction and optimization of this breakthrough new product as well as next generation architecture enhancements. Details

Tektronix, Inc. (a Danaher company) is looking for one software engineering and one hardware engineering intern to join us for the three month summer period. These particular positions are located within Tektronix’ Performance Instruments Product Line located in Beaverton, Oregon in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. Most interns that join us work on actual new product development projects that will eventually be used by our customers. So this will be a hands-on position that will help fill in all those things “you just can’t learn in school”. Cram a summer of learning with a decent salary and lots of fun and you have a recipe for success. Details

Summer 2008 Automation/IT Internship, Maxim Integrated Products. Summer Project Objectives: Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Migration Support; Software Installations on Fab and Engineer PCs – PROMIS System; Client PC Upgrades from Windows NT 4 Workstation to Windows XP – Promis / Active Directory Support; Exchange E-Mail Server Client Migration; Decommission Surplus PCs; PC Inspection / Software and Hardware Inventory Documentation; Fab and Engineer PC Reconfiguration for use with Windows Security Update Server; Fab and Engineer PC Audit for Antivirus Protection; Report migration from legacy reporting system (ASP) to ASP.NET/VB.NET. Details

Programmer/Analyst, Maxim Integrated Products. Work with existing CIM group responsible for defining and creating production reports for the wafer-fab manufacturing facilities, developing database-driven web applications, and maintaining existing web applications and reports written in MS-Excel macro and ASP .Net. Build and maintain web applications using ASP .Net (C# and VB); Construct data warehouse in SQL Server 2005 using Store Procedure and SSIS; Interact with IE group to define and create specs for new production reports; Build reporting interface in ASP .Net and host on SharePoint website; Maintain existing production reports written in MS-Excel VBA; Convert existing production reports from MS-Excel VBA to ASP .Net; Involved in entire SDLC, from requirement to release; Document your work and conform to established coding standards and methodologies; Perform database and user account administration. Details

Mentor Graphics is looking for an intern for the summer to help us redesign a web property. You should have a basic understanding or strong desire to learn the following: CSS, AJAX, XML, LDAP, MySQL, CMS, Web 2.0, Syndication & RSS, Google Search api, shopping cart, ecommerce, web forms; Comfortable with 1 or more languages (PHP, Perl, JSP, Ruby on Rails). Details

 

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