June 8, 2009

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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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The College of Engineering has added a new afternoon laboratory to ENGR 201 for summer term, and added capacity to the lecture. Please register soon if you are interested in taking ENGR 201 Electrical Fundamentals this summer and have not been able to enroll yet. The instructor for the course is John Sweet, who usually teaches engineering transfer courses at Linn-Benton Community College.

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IN THE NEWS
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Senator sees economic power in wave energy
“Wave energy has serious potential to become a huge clean energy source for the Oregon coast, and help boost the local economy,” said U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore. “But it has to be developed in partnership with local communities, and in a manner that is in harmony with the fishing industry and other coastal ecosystems.” Newport News-Times

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OPPORTUNITIES
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What do we call a high performance computational cluster combined with six undergraduates, late nights of work, a load of junk food snacks, a really crazy time limit and 26 AMPS of power? – We call it The SC09 Student Cluster Competition. Are you brave enough to take on a challenge such as this? This competition is a great chance for students to work with a vendor and get some real experience with computing clusters. This year's competition is in Portland Oregon, Nov 16-18, 2009. The team results of the HPCC portion of the competition will be announced when the TOP500 committee announces the new TOP500 list. For more info, go to http://sc09.supercomputing.org/index.php?pg=clusterguidelines.html.

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GRADUATE EXAMS
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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

Wednesday, June 10, 10 am-noon, KEC 3114. PhD Final Oral Examination - Dong Nguyen. Major Advisor: Thinh Nguyen; Co-Major Advisor: Bella Bose; Committee: Ben Lee, Alan Fern; GCR: William H. Warnes. "Wireless Network Coding for Multi-User Networks." Details

Wednesday, June 10, 1-3 pm, KEC 1005. MS FINAL ORAL EXAM - Zuan Yen. Major Advisor: Ted Brekken; Committee: Annette von Jouanne, Alex Yokochi; GCR: Henri Jansen. "Analysis and Optimal Sizing for an Energy Storage System for Wind Farm Applications." Details

Thursday, June 11, 1-3 pm, KEC 3114. PhD Oral Preliminary Examination - Omid Rajaee. Major Advisor: Un-Ku Moon; Committee: Gabor Temes, Pavan Hanumolu, Bechir Hamdaoui; GCR: Nathan Gibson. "High Precision, Low OSR Oversampling A/D Converters." Details

Thursday, June 11, 3-5pm, KEC 1114. MS FINAL ORAL EXAM - Jun Zhang. Major Advisor: Eugene Zhang; Committee: Carlos Jensen, Sabry Elias. "An Implementation of Graphcut Textures: Image and Video Synthesis Using Graph Cuts." Details

Friday, June 12, 9-11:30 am, KEC 1005. PhD Final Oral Examination - Joseph Lawrance. Major Advisor: Margaret Burnett; Committee: Martin Erwig, Timothy Budd, Xiaoli Fern; GCR: Maggie Niess. "Information Foraging in Debugging." Details

Friday, June 12, 2-4 pm, KEC 1114. MS Final Oral Examination - Akshat Surve. Major Advisor: Xiaoli Fern; Committee: Alan Fern, Prasad Tadepalli; GCR: Joseph Zaworski. "Document classification by learning multiple non-redundant codebooks with word clustering." Details

Friday, June 12, 2:00-4:00 pm, KEC 4107. PhD Oral Preliminary Examination - Ramin Zanbaghi. Major Advisor: Terri Fiez; Committee: Karti Mayaram, Gabor Temes, Pavan Hanumolu, Huaping Liu; GCR: Oksana Ostroverkhova. "Wideband High-Resolution 4th Order Single Amplifier Biquad (SAB) Based Hybrid Delta-Sigma Modulator in 0.13um CMOS." Details

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SCHOLARSHIPS/FEELOWSHIPS
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Returning in 2009, the AISES Google Scholarship will fund scholarships awards to American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian AISES members pursuing degrees in the computer science, computer engineering and management information systems. AISES and Google support the advancement of American Indian and Alaska Native students working towards obtaining a degree in the fields computer science and technology so they can obtain the necessary skills to compete in today’s global society. Multiple $10,000 scholarship awards available. Application Deadline: June 15, 2009. http://www.aises.org/Programs/ScholarshipsandInternships/Scholarships

The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) manages educational programs, including internships and scholarships, for many federal agencies, including CDC, DOE, DHS, ARMY. For more information about our programs and application materials, please visit ORISE electronic catalog at http://see.orau.org/.

The next application deadline for the AfterCollege Engineering Student Scholarship is coming up on Tuesday, June 30. If you are a full-time student pursuing a bachelor’s, master’s or doctorate degree in engineering or computer science, we welcome you to apply, even if you already applied in March. Please visit the site below to access the eligibility requirements and application: http://www.aftercollege.com/content/article/aftercollege_engineering_student_scholarship/

Do you speak Arabic, Bengali, Farsi, Hindi, Pashto, Punjabi, Turkish or Urdu? If so, we encourage you to apply for our new Critical Need Language Scholarship, regardless of your major. This scholarship deadline is also on Tuesday, June 30. Please visit the site below to access the eligibility requirements and application: http://www.aftercollege.com/content/article/aftercollege_critical_language_scholarship/

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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.

• Orbis Investment Management Limited
  Systems Developer Financial Firm, Bermuda based (Bermuda, Bermuda)
• The Aerospace Corporation
  Systems Engineering (Summer Intern) (Los Angeles, CA); MEMBR-TCH STF (Los Angeles, CA)
• AMTEC Human Capital
  SR Lawson consultant (Boise, ID)
• ExactTarget
  Platinum Support Manager-Seattle (Seattle, WA)
• Professional Careers, Inc.
  VP of Software Engineering (Seattle, WA)
• The Judge Group, Inc.
  Quality Assurance Tester (Bellevue, WA)
• The Superior Group
  Program Manager (Seattle, WA)

Novellus is currently recruiting for a Software Engineer to join our team in Tualatin (Portland), Oregon. This is a full time position. The Software Engineer is responsible for designing and debugging code using C, C++ and Java for Novellus, a semiconductor equipment manufacturer. These codes are used in our manufacturing process to make sure the tools we manufacture move and function properly. The tool application involved real time control. Some work in a cleanroom environment is required. The ideal candidate will have an advanced degree in a computer science or software engineering program. Details

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