February 23, 2009

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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Celebrate ENGINEERS WEEK! The OSU Chapter of the Society of Women Engineers is hosting the 4th Annual Engineers Ball on Sat Feb 21 in the KEC Atrium from 7-10 pm. This year's theme is SWING, and music will be provided by the famous Zaworski Brothers and their Band! Tickets are available in room 103 MU for $7 each or a pair for $12. Don’t miss out on this fun event.

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IN THE NEWS
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Harnessing waves for energy
Off Oregon’s rocky coast, sometime last September, scientists towed a 25-foot-tall buoy out to sea. Over several days, the tethered buoy converted the energy of coastal waves into pulses of energy. The exercise was an effort to test the output and durability of the buoy, which is a relatively simple “vertical” wave energy converter and one of the newest models to capture this form of renewable energy. It is also the 11th generation of a 7-kilowatt prototype for this technology. Environmental Science & Technology

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OPPORTUNITIES
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Now is the time to pre-register for the Feb 26th Smart-ups Pub-Talk event being held in Corvallis at Cloud 9 (126 SW First St.). It's a business plan competition from 5-7:30pm. It's $20 if you pre-register and $25 at the door (includes food and bev). Attend and cast your vote for the most viable business plan. The winner of the main event will have their entrance fee into the Willamette Angel Conference waived. Come out and show your support. Three local start-up companies will be delivering 10-minute presentations - and up to five start-ups will be delivering Ignite pitches - where they are each given 3.5 minutes to deliver their pitch. It's a high energy event that you don't want to miss. Entrepreneurs, investors, service providers and students are encouraged to attend. Companies featured at this event are:

10 Minute Pitches
• Floragenex (Nathan Lillegard)
• Toggle3D (Rory Plaire)
• Precision Plant Systems (Larry Plotkin)
Ignite Pitches
• Evolution Learning (Danny Kalman)
• Recycle Your Mat (Stephanie Stano)
• American Herbal Dispensary (Nome McBride)
• AMES Technology (Roger Weyel)
• DesignMedix (Lynn Stevenson)

Evergreen Aviation Unmanned Systems division is working on a project to create a short IMAX film to be played in the Evergreen Museum theater prior to each movie. This film will highlight the Unmanned Systems division and raise awareness of our projects. We are in the very beginning stages of this process, but would love to utilize the talent of students from your school and give them the exciting opportunity to work on this project, providing unique and beneficial experiences for them. Contact: Charissa Moen, Evergreen Unmanned Systems, charissa.moen@evergreenhelicopters.com, 503.472.9361 x4175.

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COLLOQUIA/SEMINARS
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Thursday, February 26, 11:00 - 11:50 AM , Kelley 1007. ECE Faculty Candidate Colloquium: "Resource Allocation Methods and Effects of Antenna Spacing in MIMO Ad hoc networks" presented by Nicholas Kirsch, Ph.D. Candidate, Drexel University. Details

Friday, February 27, 10:00 - 10:50 AM, Kelley 1007. ECE Faculty Candidate Colloquium: "Efficient Transmitters for Wireless Communications" presented by Jeffrey Walling, Lecturer and Researcher, University of Washington. Details

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GRADUATE EXAMS
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Friday, February 27, 2:30-4:30, KEC 2057. MS FINAL ORAL EXAM – Guohua Hao. Major Professor: Alan Fern; Committee: Thomas Dietterich, Weng-Keen Wong; GCR: James Coakley Jr. "Revisiting Output coding for Sequential Supervised Learning." Details

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SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS
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The Oregon State University Retirement Association (OSURA) provides scholarship support to undergraduate students at Oregon State University who are majoring in a subject that leads to a career that promotes healthy aging. Scholarship awards average between $500 - $1000 per person. Applications are due Friday, February 27, 2009. 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.

• Lionbridge
  Internet Search Consultant (Columbus, Cleveland, Other, OH)
• Comforce Redmond
  AX Architect - Enterprise Applications Group (Seattle, WA)
• Insight Global Inc.
  SDET (Bellevue, WA)
• Microsoft Partner
  Senior Consultant, PM, Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Boise, ID)
• Onvia
  SQL Server Database Administrator (Seattle, WA)
• Perot Systems
  Software Development Engineer (Kirkland, WA)
• Tyler Technologies, Inc.
  .NET Developer - Education Software (Seattle, WA)
• VanderHouwen & Associates
  Sr. QA Test Analyst (Oracle, SQL) (Portland, OR)

Strategic Data, LLC, SmartPhone applications programmer. Write code for a variety of SmartPhone applications - sub contract basis, must have your own computer. Requirements: must have your own computer. Contact Info: Merle Tyler - strategicdatallc@gmail.com. ApplyTo: strategicdatallc@gmail.com. Deadline: 1 week. Details

US Army Corps of Engineers, Electrical Engineer Student Career Experience Program. The Portland District Corps of Engineers is recruiting for an Electrical Engineering student for summer work in a construction management in the Student Career Experience Program (SCEP). Applicants must be at sophomore or junior status by summer of 2009; senior status students with one or two terms left are also eligible. The nature of the work involves office and field duties related to construction management and oversight of construction and dredging projects located in Oregon and Southwest Washington. Details

Stantec Consulting is looking for entry level engineers to assist in Transmission line and Substation design work. Details

OHSU Summer Undergraduate Research Opportunity in Computer Science. Apply your knowledge, experience the creativity of research, increase your professional competence, and engage in tackling real-world problems through the summer research opportunity in computer sciences at OHSU. Several National Science Foundation funded opportunities exist for summer research in speech, natural language, and other sequence processing problems in the Center for Spoken Language Understanding (CSLU), part of the Division of Biomedical Computer Science at OHSU. Details

McMinnville Water and Light. Intern will work with the electrical engineering staff on various projects including relay coordination, project development, advanced metering applications, substation, transmission, and distribution construction projects. Details

Schneider Electric, Engineer, Electrical Staff. Schneider Electric currently has an opening for a Staff Electrical Engineer primarily responsible for all aspects of design and development of electronic controllers for products manufactured at Salem, OR location. Currently, the AccuSine Active Harmonic Filter product line and electronic switching modules are manufactured at this location. Details

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