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August 8, 2009
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IN THE NEWS
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EECS Alum critical to NASA’s Lunar Orbiter project
Hub Knittel was among a Boeing team of engineers selected by NASA to build a craft that could fly to the moon to make a map of its surface so that future Apollo 11 astronauts would know where they could safely land and walk. He monitored the satellite’s batteries required to charge the camera and other electronics aboard the craft. San Diego News Network
OSU Alumni Win Tektronix President’s Award
Tektronix recently awarded their President’s Award to Nate Mullen and Michael Phillips. The award recognizes recent graduates who clearly stand out among their peers with significant demonstrated achievements or technical leadership. EECS
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OPPORTUNITIES
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Smart-ups/SAO Summer Social
Thursday, August 27th (5-8pm), B-Squared Wine Bar, 279 Shadow View Dr. Eugene, OR 97408
Fee: $20 if you pre-register; $25 at the door; $15 for Eugene and Corvallis Chamber members: $10 for students (includes food and bev)
As we near the end of the summer - and prepare to enter the fall - Smart-ups and the local Lane County chapter of SAO (Software Association of Oregon) - decided to team-up and host a Summer Social event at B-Squared Wine Bar. Don’t miss this opportunity to network with your peers, potential investors, and service providers. We’ve got some fun networking activities planned to enable you to meet new people, and perhaps you’ll - find that start-up company you’ve been looking to to join and share your talents with, or find that missing key team member to join your start-up, or find that adviser/mentor to support your start-up project, or find that business partner you’ve been searching for, or find that partner to raise money to continue building your start-up, or find that expert service provider you’re missing on your team, or find that inspiration you’ve been seeking, or find something you didn’t realize you were looking for - the possibilities are endless - so bring lots of business cards. Details
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GRADUATE EXAMS
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Thursday, August 6, 10am-noon, KEC 3057. PhD Oral Preliminary Examination - Yuehua Xu. Major Advisor: Alan Fern; Committee: Thomas Dietterich, Prasad Tadepalli, Raviv Raich; GCR: Karen Dixon. "Learning Ranking Functions for Beam Search." Details
Monday, August 10, Noon-2pm, KEC 3114. MS Final Oral Examination - Sumana Mohan. Major Advisor: Bella Bose; Committee: Tim Budd, Toshimi Minoura. "Indexing Web 2.0 Applications." Details
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COLLOQUIA/SEMINARS
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Tuesday, August 11, 11am-11:50am, Kelley 1007. "Technology and other limitations for analog design" presented by
Herman Casier, AMI Semiconductor Fellow (ret). Details
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JOBS
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Don't forget to check out the AfterCollege job site, tailored especially for our EECS students.
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. Even though the economy is not doing the best right now – a lot of the companies that we work with are still growing and looking to hire students/graduates!! Details
- Alternative Energy Intern - Wind, Portland, OR
- Crystal Reports Specialist, Hillsboro, OR
- Customer Service Engineering Software Support, Hillsboro, OR
- Entry Level Application Consultant Developer, Hillsboro, OR
- Front End Web Developer, Lake Oswego, OR
- IPC Writer - Engineering Support, Sandy, OR
- Narrative Writer - Electrical and/or Avionics Bkgd., Sandy, OR
- Network Engineer, Milwaukie, OR
- PHP Software Engineer, Portland, OR
- Programmer I, Portland, OR
- Quality Assurance Analyst I, Portland, OR
- SharePoint Administrator, Portland, OR
- Software Engineer (Mac), Portland, OR
- Software Engineer (Windows), Portland, OR
- Technical Illustrator, Sandy, OR
- Technical Writer, Sandy, OR
STUDENT GRADER needed fall, winter, and spring terms for CS 195 and CS 295 web authoring courses. If you have 5 to 10 hours available each week (starting week 2 of the term), have an excellent work ethic, and have experience working with XHTML, PHP, JavaScript, and MySQL, please contact pam.vanlonden@oregonstate.edu via email. Include a list of links to your web site work, describe your skill level, and note what hours you have available to work during week 10 through 11 of Fall term.
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