October 6, 2008

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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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OSU (campus wide) continues to be blocked by Hotmail. The impact is that any email sent from OSU to Hotmail is being blocked. A typical situation is that a student has either their ENGR or ONID account forwarded to hotmail. Thus, any email sent to them from OSU will not be delivered. Please do NOT forward your OSU email off campus.

As many of you have noticed over the past two weeks, OSU has had intermittent problems delivering email to Hotmail, MSN, AT&T, and others.  These sites have identified our email servers as the source of "spam" or unwanted email and have "blacklisted" us temporarily.  This obviously makes it very difficult to communicate with students and others who use those systems. 

OSU has traced the source of these unwanted emails to accounts on our systems that have fallen victim to the well crafted "phishing" emails that have hit us over the last couple of weeks. Phishing emails are those where the email purports to be from the IT Help Desk, or some other trusted source, and asks you to provide your username and password to ensure your account is working properly. Once the perpetrator of the "phish" acquires a username and password, they then use that email account to send spam from our site.

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OPPORTUNITIES
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Come Learn about Linux on Campus! The OSU Linux Users Group and Open Source Education Lab are hosting a Linux at OSU tutorial on Tuesday, 10/6, at 6PM in Kelly 1005. This tutorial will outline everything you need to know about our Linux engineering servers on campus. We will focus on how to backup files and use your web space. Anyone is welcome to join us. If you are interested in attending, or have questions and want to know more, please e-mail me at cooleys@onid.orst.edu.

The Tapia Conference Scholarship Program facilitates attendance of those individuals otherwise unable to attend. Scholarships cover travel, hotel accommodations, meals, and conference registration. Scholarship award preference will be given to students and mentors (from academia, industry, or government) who plan to present posters, papers, panels, workshops, or are entered in the Robotics Competition at the conference. In addition, preference will be given to teams comprised of faculty and students. Scholarship awards are competitive and all individuals are expected to submit a good application. Details

Ignite Corvallis
Thursday, November 13th, 2:30 -3:45 pm
CH2M HILL Alumni Center, Corvallis, Oregon (Across from Reser Stadium)

Ignite is coming to Corvallis! Share burning ideas.

If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around the world geeks have been putting together Ignite nights to show their answers. Topics range all over the map - from straight-up tech to creative arts to hobbies to general knowledge topics. This will be the first official Ignite Corvallis and we invite you to be part of it.

We need your help to make Ignite Corvallis a fantastic event. Here's what you can do...

1. If you plan to attend, please add yourself to the Ignite Corvallis Upcoming page as an attendee. This will help us get a more accurate attendance count and plan accordingly: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1100706/
2. Are you interested in being a presenter? Please submit your ideas! The deadline for proposal submission is Thursday, October 23rd. email proposals to ignite [DOT] corvallis [AT] gmail.

Not sure what to present? Watch some presentations from other ignites:

• Previous Ignite Events - http://ignite.oreilly.com/see_it.html
• Ignite Portland #1 Videos - http://www.igniteportland.com/watch/
• Why Deutschland Loves David Hasselhoff - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZmxxG8dDkI&feature=related
• Ignite Portland #3 Videos - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=IP3+ignite&search_type=&aq=f

We hope to see you at Ignite Corvallis! http://www.sao.corvallis.or.us/drupal/node/119

Fall 2008 Center for Teaching and Learning Workshops: all teaching faculty, staff, and graduate assistants welcome! Registration is required. Refreshments will be provided at all workshops. All workshops will be held in Milam 215 unless stated otherwise.

Learning Styles and Learning Perspectives
Fri., Oct. 17, 10 am-12 pm
Milam 215
Research suggests people learn in different ways and understanding these ways of learning can enrich your teaching and improve your students’ success rates. This practical workshop is intended to provide a brief introduction to learning styles or preferences - both yours and your students - and to provide concrete methods for supporting students’ learning styles. Dr. Saunders will introduce Neil Fleming’s VARK Learning Style Test, outline how instructors can begin the process of supporting their learners’ Visual, Aural, Read/Write and Kinesthetic preferences, and provide an opportunity for faculty to reflect on a course they teach by integrating multiple learning paths.
Registration: http://oregonstate.edu/ctl/learning_styles.html

So You Think You Want To Take a Field Trip?
Wed., Oct. 22, 2-4 pm
Milam 215
Dr. Kurt Peters, Ethnic Studies and Dr. Dwaine Plaza, Sociology have lead many student field trips over the years. They will explain how to take students out of the traditional post-secondary classroom setting for one week to emphasize learning through active listening and the creation of partnerships between students, the teaching team, and community stakeholders. Students become empowered to take charge of their learning and explore the myriad of ways they learn through this action-learning model.
Registration: http://oregonstate.edu/ctl/field_trip.html

Engineers without Borders October Fund Raising Banquet
Theme: "Eat Locally, Think Globally"
Date: Friday, October 24
Time: 6pm - 10pm
Location: OSU MU Ballroom
Cost: $50 per person
To reserve tickets email: osu.ewb@gmail.com

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COLLOQUIA/SEMINARS
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Monday, October 6, 4:00 - 4:50 PM, Kelley 1001. “When engineering and business collide; the art and science of making good standards” presented by Gary Delp, Distinguished Engineer & Director of the LSI University Research Program, Rochester, MN. Details

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GRADUATE EXAMS
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Wednesday, October 8, 12-2pm, KEC 3114. PhD Oral Preliminary Examination - Ahmet Ferhat Yildirim. Major Professor: Huaping Liu; Committee: Mario Magaña, Thinh Nguyen, Patrick Chiang; GCR: David Hackleman. "Directional Communications for 60 GHz Wireless Communications Networks." Details

Friday, October 10, 12-2pm, KEC 1114. MS FINAL ORAL EXAM - Arunkumar Puppala. Major Professor: Xiaoli Fern; Committee: Prasad Tadepalli, Weng-Keen Wong. "Dashboard Application for Experimentation Reporting Platform." 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:

• Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
• Informatica Corporation
• Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
• NVIDIA Corporation
• Realization Technologies, Inc.
• ROSS STORES
• Schlumberger
• The Walt Disney Company

Software Engineer – New Grad, QUALCOMM. As a QUALCOMM software engineer, you will develop, implement and maintain software for the most complex wireless devices. With a degree in computer science or engineering, you may analyze and identify system-level integration issues, plan and integrate new features, define integration and test platforms, develop and execute test scenarios for various multimedia applications such as audio, video, speech, imaging and graphics applications. Details

Hardware Engineer – New Grad, QUALCOMM. As a hardware engineer at QUALCOMM, you will work with programmable logic, digital signal processors, microprocessors, and ASICs on high-density circuit cards and gain hands-on knowledge during design validation and system integration. We are also looking for exceptional hardware designers who will design and develop full custom and semi-custom complex digital and analog ICs for wireless network and communication systems. Details

IC Design Engineer – RF / Mixed Signal / Power – New Grad, QUALCOMM. The RF/Analog division has multiple openings in the areas of: RFIC Design, Mixed Signal Design, and Power Management (PMIC). As an engineer, you will develop all RF, mixed-signal, and analog ICs for complete wireless platforms in order to drive our next phase of growth in cellular, wireless peripherals and 4G technologies. Details

Hardware Engineer – Intern, QUALCOMM. As a hardware intern at QUALCOMM, you will work with programmable logic, digital signal processors, microprocessors, and ASICs on high-density circuit cards and gain hands-on knowledge during design validation and system integration. We are also looking for exceptional hardware designers who will design and develop full custom and semi-custom complex digital and analog ICs for wireless network and communication systems. Details

IC Design Engineer – RF / Mixed Signal / Power – Intern, QUALCOMM. The RF/Analog division has multiple openings in the areas of: RFIC Design, Mixed Signal Design, and Power Management (PMIC). As an intern, you will work closely with an experienced designer on challenging RF, analog and/or mixed-signal circuit design, power management, or modeling issues. Details

Software Engineer – Intern, QUALCOMM. As a QUALCOMM software engineering intern, you will work with a team of software engineers to develop, implement and maintain software for the most complex wireless devices. With a degree in computer science or engineering, you may analyze and identify system-level integration issues, plan and integrate new features, define integration and test platforms, develop and execute test scenarios for various multimedia applications such as audio, video, speech, imaging and graphics applications. Details

ViewPlus Technologies, Part Time Student Research Engineer. Participate in development of ViewPlus embossers/printers, including at least one of the following tasks: Development and testing of electronic boards; Development and testing of firmware; Development and testing of mechanical portions including CAD. Details

Wed Oct 15: Intel Info Session/Recruiting Event. 5pm, Rogers 230. For engineering students in MIME, EE, ChE, and CEM. Food and beverages provided. Sponsored by the OSU chapter of IIE.

Women Studies and Computer Science instructor, Pam Van Londen is seeking energetic students interested in building a long-term, self-supported organization which produces archives online video interviews of innovative women. Up to six students per term can work in the following areas: Program planning; Grant writing; Researching, interviewing, writing, and translating; Videography and post-production; Travel around the world. Details

BSG Student Test Engineer. The Business Solutions Group (BSG) is part of Oregon State University's College of Business. The BSG is a complete resource for quality assurance of network technologies, provides students with an on-campus internship experience, and functions as a test platform for the deployment of new technology for the College of Business. 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

Component Design Engineer/Validation Engineer, Intel. In this position, you will be working as a member of the Ultra Mobility Group's Hudson Silicon Engineering team and be responsible for pre-silicon validation of processor cores and IA SoCs, and IP components. Your responsibilities will include but not be limited to: Working closely with system architects, chip design engineers, emulation and post silicon validation engineers to validate designs in various stages in the product life cycle; Verifying the interoperability with partner components in unit, fullchip and system level simulation environments; Defining the object oriented validation environment architecture emphasizing principles of reusable design, validation test planning, and validation test development and debugging. Details

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