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May 11, 2009
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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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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IN THE NEWS
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10th Engineering Expo to Showcase Student Inventions
You might run into a swarm of tiny robots, see a 3-D version of the future of television, examine a human-powered vehicle that can negotiate land, mud or water, or see how a SWAT team could use a new reconnaissance robot. Regardless of what interests you – the unusual, functional, or creative – you’ll find plenty to see on Friday, May 15, at the popular 10th annual Engineering Expo at Oregon State University. Media Newswire
2009 Alumni and Business Partner Awards
Abhi Talwalkar (B.S. '85, ECE), President & CEO, LSI Corporation
Back when Portlander Abhi Talwalkar was looking for a university, students didn’t have the Internet to search the world for a school, and they generally stayed close to home. Today, Talwalkar has expanded the dreams of high school graduates by helping to make the search for a college easier. “I chose Oregon State because it had a strong engineering school,” says Talwalkar. “I had done well in math and science, and the United States was hiring lots of engineers at the time.” College of Business (p14)
JONATHAN JAY "J.J." CADIZ (B.S. '97, Computer Science), Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Corp.
Curiosity and an innate sense for all things novel have fueled Jonathan Jay “J.J.” Cadiz’s career. In 2004, Cadiz was named one of the top 100 innovators in the world under age 35 by Technology Review. College of Business (p15)
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OPPORTUNITIES
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Professional Engineers of Oregon Presents the 2009 Joint Engineering Conference Education Symposium for all Disciplines of Engineering
May 14 & 15, 2009
CH2M Hill Alumni Center
Schedule & Registration: www.oregonengineers.com
TI recruiters will be on campus on Wednesday, May 13, in CORD 1109 at 5 p.m. They are looking for bright engineers who are interested in ANALOG circuit design, product, application and test engineering. They will give a brief overview of TI followed by a short technical presentation on “The world of ANALOG.” There will be FREE pizza and soft drinks! Details
The Latinas Learning to Lead (LLL) Summer Youth Program at The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., June 19-27, 2009. Deadline to Apply: May 27. LLL promotes and fosters the development of young college-age Latina leaders through leadership training and technical and practical experience, during a one-week comprehensive curriculum program. Each year, NHLI selects 22 young women from across the country to participate in the program that includes sessions on resume writing and interviewing skills, effective communication and presentation skills, public policy issues affecting the Latino community, and other professional and leadership development topics including a Gallup StrengthsFinder session at Gallup University, financial literacy and a technology component. http://cahsi.cs.utep.edu/OPPORTUNITIES/Students/tabid/119/Default.aspx
Exploring the Possibility of Graduate School
Wednesday, May 13, 5 p.m., Strand Ag Hall 222
Career Services cordially invites you to attend a panel discussion about making the choice to go to graduate school. Graduate school representatives from various Oregon universities and fields will be answering your questions, including:
- Is graduate school right for me?
- What programs are offered and do I meet the admission requirements?
- How can I be a competitive applicant?
- What financial aid and funding is available?
- What should I expect? How is graduate school different than undergrad?
If you are curious if graduate school is the right choice for you in the current economic climate or want to know what admission committee members are looking for, you are strongly encouraged to attend! For more information, contact Britt Q. Hoover, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Career Services, (541) 737-9216
Big 10+ Graduate School Expo. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana September 27-28, 2009. Application Deadline: Students who join the mailing list by June 1st will be entered in a drawing for a free registration! Students are provided with comprehensive information regarding graduate education in the fields of Engineering, Mathematics, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Science, Technology and other Science-related disciplines. Students from all institutions of higher education are encouraged to attend, and travel scholarships are available. http://www.gradschool.purdue.edu/gradexpo
Open Meeting with IE3 Global Internships and Green Empowerment
Wed. May 13, 2009
1:00-2:00 pm
Snell Hall, 4th Floor, Transit Lounge
(note: make change the room if many people want to attend)
RSVP: Monya.Lemery@ous.edu
Reference: http://ie3global.ous.edu/positions/asofenix/
The IE3 Global Internships Program at Oregon State University is offering a new internship in conjunction with the Portland-based non-profit Green Empowerment at AsoFenix in Nicaragua. This opportunity is focused for students of engineering, forestry and public health fields. This meeting is open to any interested faculty and/or department heads who are interested in learning more about this opportunity and other opportunities to connect with Green Empowerment and their projects in Latin America and SouthEast Asia.
OSU Alumni Association Community Day of Service
Get your work gloves on and help us take the community service spirit of Beaver Nation to the streets! Saturday, May 16, 2009 is a day for Beavers to get together and get busy helping. Alumni, students and friends of OSU will work together in multiple cities - Portland, Seattle, Bend, Corvallis and San Francisco Bay area - during what will become an annual OSUAA day of service. The Corvallis project is at the Children's Farm Home, where we'll be doing work in two areas. In the community garden: Building wooden raised vegetable beds, tearing out and rebuilding counter slats for the greenhouse area, clean-up around greenhouse area, plant vegetable beds. For the therapeutic horse program: Replacing wire fencing, moving hay bales, fixing supports in riding arena, general maintenance of area. The project runs from 9:00 am to noon. For more information, or to register, click here.
The College of Engineering academic coaches will be hosting a success workshop on Studying, Testing & Reducing Test Anxiety in Wilson Hall, Wednesday, May 20, 7–8 pm. Details
Center for Teaching and Learning Spring Workshops
All teaching faculty, staff, and graduate assistants welcome! Registration is required for all workshops. Please register on our website at http://oregonstate.edu/ctl, send an e-mail to CTL@oregonstate.edu, or call 737-2809.
Effective Use of Collaborative Learning in the Classroom, part 1
Wed., May 20, 9:00-12:00
Milam 215
This hands-on workshop provides faculty with the background and tools to successfully integrate collaborative learning teams into their classes. Participants will look at the challenges that have prevented the use of learning teams, and explore a powerful team management model which addresses these challenges.
Register at http://oregonstate.edu/ctl/workshops/registration_form.html.
Effective Use of Collaborative Learning in the Classroom Follow-up, part 2
Wed., June 3, 10:00-12:00
Milam 215
This workshop is for all instructors who have attended the CTL’s previous workshop “Effective Use of Collaborative Learning in the Classroom.” Dr. Saunders will reintroduce the collaborative model and give participants an opportunity to experience the model and reflect on its features in more depth. Please bring your materials with you to this workshop.
Register at http://oregonstate.edu/ctl/workshops/registration_form.html.
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GRADUATE EXAMS
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Tuesday, May 19, 1-3 pm, KEC 3114. PhD Oral Preliminary Examination - Wenhuan Yu. Major Professor: Gabor Temes; Committee: Patrick Chiang, Pavan Hanumolu, Roger Traylor; GCR: David Hackleman. "Incremental A/D Converters." Details
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SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS
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The Grace Hopper Conference Scholarship to attend the The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Application deadline: May 27, 2009 (Midnight CDT). A full scholarship covers conference registration, lodging for four nights (2 scholarship recipients per room), and travel expense reimbursement up to a certain amount. Partial scholarships are also awarded which cover some of these expenses. You will be asked to submit an essay, résumé/CV, GPA & class rank and letter of reference. http://www.gracehopper.org/2009/participate/student-scholarships/
Google Lime Scholarship for Students with Disabilities. Deadline: June 1, 2009. Google has announced that they are partnering with Lime to offer scholarships to students with disabilities who are pursuing university degrees in the field of computer science in Canada or the U.S. http://www.esight.org/link.cfm?n=1574
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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 Intelligent Systems group of EECS is converting its TaskTracer desktop intelligence application to open source. Our goal is to make TaskTracer available to the worldwide research community in Summer 2009 to help evolve the intelligent desktop. We have a unique opportunity for an undergraduate research assistant to contribute to all aspects of this effort - from software engineering to open source community development. This is a great real world project with high visibility. Responsibilities: Provide engineering support for converting TaskTracer's code to open source. Help develop TaskTracer's open source web presence and its online community. Details
Summer Job – Java/VB.net Programmer. Dr. Burnett is looking for a student to help build a new prototype in Java/VB.net this summer. You'll be working closely with a graduate student on this project. Qualifications: Experience programming in Java or VB.net required. CS major, having taken at least through CS 261. (The more CS courses taken, the better.) Employment Runs: all summer, but an earlier start is possible if desired. Details
At any given time, CampusPoint is hiring for a number of jobs and internships – currently we are recruiting for over 50 different jobs/internships here in the Portland metro area. CampusPoint is a FREE online resource (www.campuspoint.com) that helps college students and graduates find jobs & internships in the Portland Metro and Seattle/Puget Sound Area.
- Application Engineer, Vancouver, WA
- Deployment Consultant (Project Management), Wilsonville, OR
- Entry-Level Application Consultant/Developer, Beaverton, OR
- Network Engineer, Milwaukie, OR
- Programmer I, Portland, OR
- QA Engineer, Portland, OR
- Quality Assurance Analyst I, Portland, OR
- Search Engine Optimization Specialist, Vancouver, WA
- Web Designer, Portland, OR
Saltire Software has received supplemental funding for a NSF research grant to fund an undergraduate intern for 12 weeks this summer. The project involves creating a front-end in Geometry Expressions that will communicate with a web site that hosts a catalog of pre-constructed geometric figures. A user will be able to browse the content of the website inside Geometry Expressions and import figures directly from the web into the program. This is an exciting opportunity to gain real world experience programming a client-server application. You will be in charge of developing both the remote and local portions of the project as well as the communication between the two. The server portion will be created in PHP and the client will be done in C++ using wxWidgets. Details
Software Development Internship at WebMD. WebMD® Health Services, located in beautiful Portland, OR, is a strategic business unit of WebMD Corporation. We’re the leading provider of services that help consumers, physicians, employers, and health plans navigate the complexity of the health care system. In this software development internship, work as a member of a development team creating tools to help the development team create customized health and benefits management web sites for our employer and healthcare clients. Technical responsibilities include analysis, coding, unit testing, and maintaining tools as part of the WebMD development process. Details
The Pride Center is happy to announce that we’re hiring support staff for the 2009-2010 school year! Positions are:
- Activities Coordinator
- Community Outreach Coordinator
- Volunteer/Recognition Coordinator
- Office Assistant
- Graphic Designer
- Publications Assistant
Applications are available at the Pride Center and Student Leadership and Involvement (located in Snell Hall). They are due Friday, May 15 at 5:00pm at the Pride Center. Details
Programmer/Analyst I, PacificSource Health Plans. Will work with business users to support their business reporting requirements in Cognos 8BI. Report design, report writing/programming, and report performance tuning. Business analysis for reports, creating technical specifications. Microsoft TSQL programming experience required. Experience coding stored procedures desired. Cognos 8BI Report Studio, Query Studio, Analysis Studio on Microsoft SQL server/database experience a plus. Knowledge of relational databases, ETL, and Data Warehousing. Details
Paid COE Student Positions: College of Engineering Ambassadors
- Do you enjoy sharing your collegiate experiences with others?
- Do you want to gain valuable communications and leadership skills, and event-planning experience?
- Do you welcome the opportunity to contribute to the university's recruitment and diversity efforts?
- Would you like the chance to work directly with university faculty members and administrators?
- Could you benefit from networking with peers and professionals in your field of study?
- Are you a hard worker who enjoys having fun?
If you answer "yes" to many of these questions, you may be an ideal candidate to serve as an Ambassador for the College of Engineering!
Ambassadors serve as representatives for the College of Engineering and are responsible for supporting recruiting and diversity efforts. Ambassadors lend support in many ways They may mentor new students, travel to high schools to make presentations, assist in family science nights, attend on-campus recruiting events, professional conferences, industry and alumni events, host students and parents who visit campus; and contact prospective students.
Because of travel, priority will be given to students who have one full day per week available for work.
Benefits:
- Prestige associated with serving on a team of highly motivated and respected undergraduates.
- Opportunity to network with university administrators, faculty, industry professionals, and political figures.
- Chance to positively contribute to the colleges' student-recruitment efforts.
- Valuable work and leadership experience to include on resumes and to discuss during interviews
- $10/hour
Application forms are at:
http://engr.oregonstate.edu/wme/amb_apply/
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