August 17, 2009

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IN THE NEWS
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Google gift of $300,000 to OSU Open Source Lab raises Internet giant’s support to more than $1M
In yet another show of support for open source projects, Google has made another $300,000 gift to the Oregon State University Open Source Lab. The new funds will support OSL efforts to provide hosting services used by many of today's most recognized open source projects and communities. OSU News Release

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GRADUATE EXAMS
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Monday, August 24, 10am-12noon, KEC 1114. PhD Final Oral Examination - Xinlong Bao. Major Advisor: Thomas Dietterich; Committee: Lawrence Bergman, Alan Fern, Prasad Tadepalli; GCR: Anne Trehu. "Applying Machine Learning for Prediction, Recommendation, and Integration." 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.

• Scottrade, Inc.
  Siebel UCM Developer (St Louis, MO); Java Developer (St Louis, MO); Infrastructure Technical Writer Intern (St Louis, MO)
• iMatch Technical Services
  Software Development Engineer (Seattle, WA)
• Professional Technical Resources
  QA Engineer (Portland, OR); .NET Software Developer (Portland, 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 are available during week 2 through 11 of Fall term.

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. Details

• 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
• 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
• Software Tester, Portland, OR
• UI Developer, Portland, OR
  

Eaton Electrical Sector Leadership Development Program – Accelerating Control Excellence (ACE). Prepare yourself to be responsible for achieving an assigned sales objective consistent with expectations of a professional sales engineer in the assigned product category. This position has the primary responsibility to manage and drive the sales effort within the OEM customer / distributor base assigned. As a sales engineer, you will sell assigned product lines to targeted customers with key objectives being top line sales growth, optimized sales volume, product mix, and profit margin. Details

Local entrepreneur and OSU Business student has recently developed an idea for a web business that would potentially be submitted to the OSU Business Plan Competition later this spring. Need help develop an already established and growing website for some web development experience. The site uses a large database and will need help with MySQL and PHP mostly. Details

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