June 30, 2008
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IN THE NEWS
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Solar Sell: Companies that Mass Marketed PCs Turn to Photovoltaics. Although solar cell technology for converting the sun's power into electricity has improved steadily in recent years, high costs and inefficiencies have kept it from being a serious replacement for fossil fuels. A few high-tech heavyweights — IBM, Intel and Hewlett-Packard (HP) — hope to change this using the same formula of mass production and commoditization that helped them make personal computers mainstream over the past three decades. Scientific American
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Martin N. Kelley, an Oregon State University alumnus and one of the school’s most prominent donors, died on June 18th. He was 80. Kelley always was generous where his alma mater was concerned, but never more so than in 2000, when the philanthropist gave $20 million for The Kelley Engineering Center, which bears his name on the OSU campus. The gift was a catalyst in OSU’s drive to become one of the top 25 engineering schools in the nation. Corvallis Gazette-Times
Photos from the EECS graduation ceremony are up in the photo gallery! http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/gallery/eecs-graduation-2008. Photos from the Engineering Expo are also here http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/gallery/expo2008
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KUDOS
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Don Heer has been selected to receive OSU's Outstanding Faculty Research Assistant Award, which recognizes a Faculty Research Assistant or Senior Faculty Research Assistant for distinguished contributions to the University. The criteria for the award include exceptional job performance, innovativeness in work, scholarly achievements, publications, or programs, participation in University and community affairs, and contributions valuable to the State of Oregon. Heer will be given the award at University Day in September.
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OPPORTUNITIES
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is sponsoring the NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program (NASA-USRP) offering undergraduate students across the United States research experiences at NASA Centers. Students may apply for a 15-week spring (2009) session. Selected students must be available to work 15 consecutive weeks at 40 hours per week during spring. Applicants must be classified as rising sophomores, juniors or seniors at the beginning of the first session for which they are applying with a cumulative 3.0 GPA. Applicants must be US citizens. 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. This week's featured employers:
Manufacturing Test Engineer, FLIR. Responsible for developing, implementing and maintaining systems for the electrical test, calibration and configuration of components, sub-assemblies, and final assemblies. Development activities include circuit and hardware design, application programming, and embedded code. Interfaces with design engineering in coordinating the release of new products; may act as Operations Project Manager for manufacturing related deliverables. Details
Local environmental research company looking for computer troubleshooting assistance on ongoing basis (anticipate about 10 hr per week, with some flexibility regarding schedule). Need assistance with data backup, networking, data exchange, hardware issues, general computer troubleshooting. Looking for computer science undergraduate or graduate student for internship. Requires exceptional computer skills. Will work with our staff as needed. Details
American Aerospace Engineering, Electrical or Computer Engineer. American Aerospace Engineering LLC is looking for Electrical and Computer Engineers. Currently the company is working with Insitu inc. in the Unmanned Air Systems industry. Projects include, but are not limited to, unmanned air vehicles, control systems, communication systems, and other projects related to UAS endeavors. You would be working with mechanical, electrical, computer, and aerospace engineers from many different backgrounds. Details
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