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EECS News: Headlines

April 20, 2009


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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Secure your place in EECS history: include your portrait in the Class of 2009 composite photo. EECS photos of the year's graduates has been a tradition for decades. If you haven't yet seen it, the 4th floor hall in the Kelley Engineering Center is lined with class pictures dating back to the 1940s and you can be part of this rich history. Contact Ball Studio (753-5721) by the end of April to schedule an appointment to have your picture taken. Sitting fee: $10; your place in history: priceless.

Graduation is coming up! Every year the student chapters of the Association for Computing Machinery and Eta Kappa Nu organize a School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Graduation. This event is shorter and more personal than the University-wide graduation and is tailored to the faculty and students of our school. All students who have graduated since summer 2008 and anticipate graduating through fall 2009 are welcome to participate. Details

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EVENTS
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Holocaust Memorial Week 2009 is scheduled for April 20-23. This marks the twenty-third consecutive year that we will be observing Memorial Week at OSU. As always, the Holocaust Memorial Committee has attempted to provide a program that will be meaningful across the breadth of our campus community. For more information: http://oregonstate.edu/dept/holocaust/index.php

Monday, April 20, 7:30 p.m., C&E Auditorium (LaSells Stewart Center, OSU campus)
Public talk -- Claudia Koonz: How the Nazis Made Anti-Semitism Respectable

Tuesday, April 21, 7:30 p.m., Memorial Union Lounge (OSU campus)
Public talk -- Rolf Schuette: The Holocaust's Role in the Identity of Today's Germans

Wednesday, April 22, 7:30 p.m., Austin Auditorium (LaSells Stewart Center, OSU campus)
Public talk -- George Wittenstein: A Personal Account of the White Rose

Thursday, April 23, 7:00 p.m., Kelley Engineering 1001 (OSU campus)
Film – Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

On April 24 (Friday) and May 2 (Saturday), the Beatles' eponymous double album, also known as the "White Album," will be recreated live in concert. Both shows start at 7:00pm and will be held at the Milam Auditorium. EECS students Bill Cowell, Simon Ghionea, and Neville Mehta are involved in this project alongside 15 other musicians.

All proceeds go toward the Center Against Rape and Domestic Violence (CARDV). This is the 4th year running for such an event; with your support, previous shows have brought in about $20,000 for CARDV.

Tickets ($5) are available at the Women's Center (on campus), and online at http://www.beatlesatosu.org. You can also contact Neville Mehta (mehtane@eecs.oregonstate.edu) for tickets or any further information.

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OPPORTUNITIES
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Undergraduate Women in Science and Engineering: Are you wondering about Graduate School? The Northwest Symposium for Graduate Education will help answer your questions and introduce you to information you need to make the academic and career decisions that are right for you! Meet with women scientists and engineers from academia and industry, and with current graduate students. Learn from their experiences and get up-to-date information. Saturday May 16, 2009 8:30AM-3:00pm
http://engr.oregonstate.edu/nwsge/

Topics include:
• Why is Graduate School important?
• How to apply?
• Finding the program that is right for you
• Funding Grad School
• Career Options?
• Masters or PhD?
• School/Life Balance: Grad school and Family
• Writing a Thesis
• How to prepare for the GRE
• Going to Grad School in a few years…what should I do now?
• Academia or Industry?

This symposium is FREE due to generous support from INTEL. Breakfast and Lunch provided
Registration Required

Volunteer for the Mom's Weekend Wave Lab Tour
Would you like to know more about the world famous OSU Wave Lab? The best way to learn is to become a volunteer tour guide! During MOM’s Weekend, May 2, the WAVE lab will be open for tours from 1-4pm. We need students to lead tours and share information about this exciting place! Students from all departments in the COE are encouraged to participate.

Tour guides training either: Friday April 24th Noon to 1 PM OR Wednesday April 29th 4-5 PM. Questions – contact Alicia Lyman-Holt 737-3665 or Alicia.lyman-holt@oregonstate.edu

Sign up at the COE Volunteer Site: http://engr.oregonstate.edu/wme/volunteer/volviewevent.php

The College of Engineering academic coaches will be hosting three success workshops in Wilson Hall (7 p.m. – 8 p.m.). Details

April 30 – Effectively Managing Your Time
May 7 – Wellness & Life Balance
May 20 – Studying, Testing & Reducing Test Anxiety

Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies Loebner Prize Competition in Artificial Intelligence. The objective of the Loebner Prize Competition in Artificial Intelligence is to identify the computer system that can best succeed in passing a modern variant of the Turing Test. Turing proposed the test in the 1950s stating that when a computer's response was indistinguishable from a human's the machine could be said to be "thinking." The Loebner Prize Medal and a cash award is presented annually to the designer of the computer system that best succeeds in passing a variant of the Turing Test. Details

University Mars Rover Challenge rehearsal
When: April 25th
Where: Adair County Park Covered Picnic Areas

Tentative Schedule:
11:00 AM – Introduction
11:30 AM – Extremophiles
12:00 PM – Site Survey Task
12:30 PM – Snacks*
1:00 PM – Emergency Navigation Task
1:30 PM – Construction Task
2:00 PM – Cleanup

*Snacks will be provided: Please RSVP to albrighr@gmail.com. Details

The Student Alumni Association is now recruiting for its Board of Directors positions! We have two types of positions available:

SAA Board of Directors 2009-2010. We are now recruiting for the 2009-2010 Student Alumni Association Board of Directors! SAA leaders uphold OSU traditions, network with alumni, plan campus events, and run the SAA membership program. In exchange for this 3-5 hour per week commitment, students receive a $1000 scholarship for the academic year. Applications are available online at www.osualum.com/council.

We also have the SAA Recruitment Chair position available immediately. This position oversees the marketing and management of our membership program, providing great hands on experience in leadership, public relations, and promotion. This position is a paid student staff position that serves on the SAA Board of Directors as well as holds additional office hours at the Alumni Association. Applicants must be able to work over summer. Applications are available online at the Beaver JobNet website operated via Career Services.

If you want to learn more about this position or other opportunities to get involved with the Student Alumni Association, attend our info session on Tuesday, April 14th at 5:00pm in MU 211. Free food and prizes available! You can direct questions to Genie Bettencourt at genia.bettencourt@oregonstate.edu or (541)737-9678. Details

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Monday, April 20, 4-6 pm, KEC 4107. PhD Oral Preliminary Examination - Abhijith Arakali. Major Professor: Pavan Hanumolu; Committee: Un-Ku Moon, Kartikeya Mayaram, Bechir Hamdaoui; GCR: Nathan Gibson. "Supply-Noise Mitigation Techniques for Phase-Locked Loops." Details

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SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS
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Krell Institute DOE High-Performance Computer Science Fellowship (DOE-HPCS). The Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) is a program funded by the Department of Energy's Office of Science and National Nuclear Security Administration. The DOE CSGF trains scientists to meet the nation's workforce needs and helps to create a nationwide interdisciplinary community. This fellowship is for graduate students planning full-time study toward a PhD. in computer science with an emphasis on high-performance computing. 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.

The Department of Commerce (DOC) is looking for students in the DC Metro area majoring in the following academic fields: Geography, Computer Science, Information Systems, Web Design, Statistics, Social Sciences. Selected students will intern this summer as participants in the DOC Student Internship for Postsecondary Students for approximately 10 weeks. These internships offer the students opportunities to participate in hands-on education and training related to their fields of interest and the DOC. Details

The INTO OSU Joint venture is currently looking to hire a student to help complete some IT tasks. The position will be quite an open-ended one...as long as the student wants to work for us. The work will be quite interesting for an IT-minded student. The experience will include web services, .Net/Java and relational database work. Details

Software Engineer Intern 564273, Intel. In this position, you will be responsible for modeling, prototyping of video technologies in the general areas of video codec and video processing. Your responsibilities will include but not be limited to: Performing optimized implementation of video decoding and encoding for MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AVC, and VC-1 standards; Decoding post-processing techniques such as deblocking and deringing filters, as well as more general video processing techniques such as adaptive algorithms for deinterlacing, high quality scaling, frame rate conversion, color adjustments, sharpness, noise reduction and others; Encoding pre-processing techniques such as denoise, reverse-telecine, video statistics analysis and others; Making tradeoffs between quality, performance and cost, between fixed function and programmable implementations' Interacting with silicon design team, software kernel and/or driver development team and validation team in deploying such new techniques. Details

Software Engineer Intern 564271, Intel. In this position, you will be responsible for modeling, prototyping of video technologies in the general areas of video codec and video processing. Your responsibilities will include but not be limited to: Performing optimized implementation of video decoding and encoding for MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AVC, and VC-1 standards; Decoding post-processing techniques such as deblocking and deringing filters, as well as more general video processing techniques such as adaptive algorithms for deinterlacing, high quality scaling, frame rate conversion, color adjustments, sharpness, noise reduction and others; Encoding pre-processing techniques such as denoise, reverse-telecine, video statistics analysis and others; Making tradeoffs between quality, performance and cost, between fixed function and programmable implementations; Interacting with silicon design team, software kernel and/or driver development team and validation team in deploying such new techniques. Details

Software Engineer Intern 564689, Intel. In this position, you will be responsible for performance analysis, testing and developing applications for existing or new 3D technologies specific to gaming. Your responsibilities will include but not be limited to: Responsible for the performance testing of low and high level benchmarks and associated analysis; Responsible for the development of apps/code for existing and/or new 3D algorithms; Responsible for the modification of code for optimization as well as measurement; Independently Interacting with various teams in Intel on debugging performance related issues. Details

Graphics SW Eng Intern 563916, Intel. You must be a current student in Computer Science or Computer Engineering working on a Master of Science degree. Additional qualifications include: Strong C and/or C++ programming skills, Windows* programming, and graphics API (Direct3D*) experience; Min. GPA of 3.75; Experience with C++ and/or C, Direct3D* and/or OpenGL*. The following qualifications would be added advantages: Working experience in designing and/or developing graphics drivers for Windows* operating systems would be an added advantage; Experience with Vista device drivers. Details

Windows 7 Software Intern 564579, Intel. In this position, you will be assisting the Intel engineering team for Windows 7 integrated graphics software. Windows 7 is the next generation of Microsoft Windows* after Vista*, and this Intel team is developing graphics device drivers for the new operating system. You will be monitoring an issue tracking database and working with development engineers on reproducing issues or confirming fixes. Additional responsibilities include running technical experiments or graphics demos using Windows 7 together with Intel software. Details

Media Technology Intern 565240, Intel. The Graphics Architecture Team of Visual Computing Group (VCG), Digital Enterprise Groups, is responsible for the architecture definition of current and future integrated graphics engines of client platforms (desktop and mobile) serving consumer and corporate businesses. In this position, you will be responsible for technology, business, and industry analysis. Your responsibilities may include but not be limited to: Performance testing of low and high level benchmarks and associated analysis; Development and test of apps for existing/new algorithms; Independently Interacting with various teams in Intel on market analysis. Details

Software Engineer Intern 564315, Intel. In this position, you will be responsible for developing and supporting software tests and tools for Graphics Software Validation. You should be in progress of obtaining a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science (or other closely related degree). Additional qualifications include: Solid programming skills in the Linux* or Windows* environment and in particular, C and/or C++ programming languages and Perl or Ruby* scripting languages; Good working knowledge of 3D graphics concepts, techniques, programming APIs (Direct3D* and/or OpenGL*); Good working knowledge of Media concepts and protocols (Directshow/Media Foundation, H.264, VC-1, MPEG2); Strong problem solving or debug skills; Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Details

Software Engineer Intern 564269, Intel. In this position, you will be responsible for modeling, prototyping of video technologies in the general areas of video codec and video processing. Your responsibilities will include but not be limited to: Performing optimized implementation of video decoding and encoding for MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AVC, and VC-1 standards; Decoding post-processing techniques such as deblocking and deringing filters, as well as more general video processing techniques such as adaptive algorithms for deinterlacing, high quality scaling, frame rate conversion, color adjustments, sharpness, noise reduction and others; Encoding pre-processing techniques such as denoise, reverse-telecine, video statistics analysis and others; Making tradeoffs between quality, performance and cost, between fixed function and programmable implementations; Interacting with silicon design team, software kernel and/or driver development team and validation team in deploying such new techniques. Details

Graduate Intern Tech 564479, 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 Master of Science degree or a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent college program. You should have VLSI design, Architecture, CAD tool programming knowledge with basics communication skills. Details

PacificSource Health Plans is an independent, growing, not-for-profit health insurance company. The Programmer Analyst I will design, document, develop, configure, test, and maintain mission-critical applications. Investigate and resolve system problems. Provide information system solutions to internal departments and external customers and partners. Analyze requirements, understanding business processes and needs. Recommend solutions to achieve the business goals. Complete projects with cross-functional teams of IT peers and business partners. Manage time and requirements expectations to ensure a high degree of stakeholder and user satisfaction. Details

 

 

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