June 1, 2009

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IN THE NEWS
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The annual IEEE International Symposium for Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2009 presented Technical Field Awards to 20 outstanding researchers. The Mac Van Valkenburg Award went to Dr. Gabor C. Temes from School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of Oregon State University to recognize his pioneering research on the theory and design of analog filters, switched-capacitor circuits and delta-sigma data converters, and for his contributions to engineering education through his textbooks widely adopted by professionals in this field, as well as his excellent mentorship over hundreds of successful electronic engineers. Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

Graduate Student Awarded Prestigious Fellowship
Skyler Weaver, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical and computer engineering at Oregon State University, has been awarded a Texas Instruments/Global Research Collaboration (GRC) Fellowship. Weaver is one of only 40 GRC fellows in the nation and the only one in the Pacific Northwest. The fellowship provides Weaver with tuition and fees, a monthly stipend, and an annual gift to the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science for up to five years. School of EECS

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OPPORTUNITIES
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The end of the year is near and so are many end of the year events that the College of Engineering needs help with! Sign up to help on the COE volunteer site: http://engr.oregonstate.edu/wme/volunteer/volviewevent.php. Thanks for helping make OSU a great place!

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GRADUATE EXAMS
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Monday, June 1, 1-3 pm, KEC 1007. PhD Final Oral Examination - Bader Albader. Major Advisor: Bella Bose; Co-Major Advisor: Mary Flahive; Committee: Timothy Budd, Thinh Nguyen; GCR: Jack Higginbotham. "Some Communication Algorithms for Gaussian and Eisenstein-Jacobi Networks." Details

Wednesday, June 3, 9:30-11:30 am, KEC 1114. MS FINAL ORAL EXAM - Ho Sung Kang. Major Professor: Ben Lee; Committee: Huaping Liu, Roger Traylor; GCR: Mike Pavol. "Urban Operation Mobility Model." Details

Wednesday, June 3, 3-5pm, KEC 1114. MS FINAL ORAL EXAM - Simon Ghionea. Major Professor: Pallavi Dhagat; Committee: John Conley, Thomas Plant, Vincent Remcho; GCR: David Hackleman. "Magnetic Bead Detection with Ferromagnetic Resonance for Use in Immuno-Biosensor Application." Details

Thursday, June 4, 2-4 pm, KEC 3114. MS FINAL ORAL EXAM - Na An. Major Professor: Albrecht Jander; Committee: Tomasz Giebultowicz, Patrick Chiang; GCR: William Hetherington. "Electrically Tunable Thin Film Inductors Based on Synthetic Antiferromagnet (SAF) Cores." Details

Friday, June 5, noon-2pm, KEC 3114. MS FINAL ORAL EXAM - Christopher Mills-Price. Major Advisor: Weng-Keen Wong; Committee: Prasad Tadepalli, Alan Fern; GCR: Peter Lachenbruch. "Learning Scheduling Preferences with Structured Prediction." Details

Monday, June 8, 10am-noon, KEC 3057. MS FINAL ORAL EXAM - Paul Strauss. Major Advisor: Martin Erwig; Committee: Irem Tumer, Timothy Budd; GCR: Harry Yeh. "Functional Simulation of the Task-Scheduling Language PLEXIL." Details

Monday, June 8, noon-2pm, KEC 1005. MS FINAL ORAL EXAM - Hannes Hapke. Major Advisor: Ted Brekken; Co-Major Advisor: Annette von Jouanne; Minor Advisor: Zhaohui Wu; GCR: Mike Pavol. "Development of Biomimetic Control Strategies for the Optimal Use of Renewable Sources and Energy Storage Systems." Details

Monday, June 8, 2-4 pm, KEC 3114. MS FINAL ORAL EXAM - Heather Lonsdale. Major Professor: Carlos Jensen; Committee: Ron Metoyer, Timothy Budd; GCR: Eric Skyllingstad. "Using provenance to aid document re-finding." Details

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COLLOQUIA/SEMINARS
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Monday, June 1, 4:00 - 4:50 PM, Kelley 1001. "Porous Silicon: An Enabling Material for Microsystem Integration" presented by Dr. Paul L. Bergstrom, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI. Details

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JOBS
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• Brocade Communications Systems Inc.
  New College Graduates: Sales Systems Engineering (Philadelphia and Washington D.C.); New College Graduates-Sales Systems Engineering (Broomfield, CO); Technical Marketing Engineer-New College Grad (San Jose, CA)
• City of Salem Department of IT
  SENIOR ORACLE PROGRAMMER ANALYST (Salem, OR)
• Click Commerce
  Technical Consultant (Beaverton, OR)
• Comforce Redmond
  Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) III (Redmond, WA)
• Preco Electronics
  Software Engineer/Database Developer (Boise, ID)
• Zenex Partners
  Software Design Engineer (Bellevue, WA)

Software Engineering Intern. FEI Company is a leading supplier of Tools for Nanotech™ enabling research, development and manufacture of products at the Nanoscale. Reporting to the Software Engineering Manger the Software Engineer Intern is responsible for the design, development, integration, troubleshooting and debug of software programs for software enhancements and new products. Preferably someone who has software experience and who is not afraid of doing some hardware stage tests and minimal mathematical background to do calculations understands some basic statistics. Details

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