December 9 2010
On Monday December 13th at 12:30pm, students in the CECS 491 Software Development Project class will demonstrate and present their final senior projects. The demonstrations will take place in ECS 403, everyone is welcome to attend. The following is a brief description of the four projects that will be presented.
The IEEE Computer Society is presenting the 2011 Simulator Design competition for students worldwide with a top prize of $8,000 USD and a second place prize of $2,000 USD. Student teams will be invited to design a CPU simulator, a program used in many architecture courses to illustrate how computers work.
“This is an exciting competition because it cuts across traditional boundaries by combining architecture with program design and software engineering – just like real life,” said Alan Clements, chair of the competition and an emeritus professor of computer science. “All you have to do is to write a program. Well, that's not quite all. You have to write an excellent program using professional design techniques.”
The competition requires that students have taken a course in architecture and have both programming and software engineering skills. Student teams will submit both a report and a working program at the end of the competition.
Who can compete? The competition is open to student members of the IEEE Computer Society organized into teams consisting of three to five students enrolled at the same institution of higher learning.
Current IEEE student members can add Computer Society student membership (8 USD)
Non-member students can join both IEEE and IEEE Computer Society (40 USD)
As part of their member benefits, all student members receive access to the Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL).
The competition is conducted through online submission of reports and simulators to the panel of international judges (chosen by the IEEE Computer Society). This year's judges include Bob Colwell, one of the world's leading experts on computer design and Intel's former chief architect on the Pentium 4 processor.
To register and for more information visit the competition web site. Registration deadline is 18 January 2011.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) provides Summer 2011 internship opportunities available through the Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network in Washington, DC, for undergraduate and graduate students who are majoring in a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) field. The ten-week (May 31 – August 5, 2011) internship opportunities are made possible through a grant to the QEM Network from the Office of Integrative Activities (OIA), NSF. The NSF internship will provide round-trip airfare, assistance with local transportation costs, summer housing on a local college campus, and a stipend ($3,000 for undergraduate students and $4,000 for graduate students), payable in three installments. In addition to the ten-week summer internship, interns will be strongly encouraged to implement science-oriented outreach activities during the academic year when they return to their home institutions to continue their studies. These activities would focus on pre-college students residing, or attending school, in neighboring communities. To be eligible for science internships at NSF, an applicant must be:
During the internship, following a one-week orientation at QEM, science student interns will be mentored by NSF program officers who are involved in implementing science policies and in managing/directing programs focused on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The interns will have opportunities to further develop their research, communications (oral and written), and other professional skills as well as to become a part of a peer network that includes students from across the country who are serving as summer interns in other QEM or NSF internship programs. Interns will be expected to prepare, and discuss with their mentors, individual development plans (IDPs); conduct a research project under the guidance of their mentors; submit mid-term and final written reports to QEM; and make several oral presentations throughout the summer.
The application is available online, along with additional Program information. The application deadline is Friday, January 28, 2011. Early applications are strongly encouraged.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sponsors a 10-week summer internship program for rising juniors and seniors majoring in homeland security related science, technology, engineering and mathematics (HS-STEM) disciplines. The DHS HS-STEM Summer Internship Program provides students with the opportunity to conduct research in DHS mission-relevant research areas at federal research facilities located across the country.
The goal of this program is to engage a diverse, educated, and skilled pool of scientists and engineers in HS-STEM issues and to promote long-term relationships between student researchers, the DHS Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate, and federal research facilities to enhance the HS-STEM workforce.
DHS has partnered with Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) to manage the application and review process, notification, and implementation of the Program. The DHS Science and Technology Directorate reviews applications and makes the final award selections.
2011 Summer Internships for Undergraduate Students
Visit the DHS HS-STEM Summer Internship Program for complete information including application.
Goodsmith and Co, a local firm, has purchased a Website template for creating a new site for one of their companies, and the template includes an embedded Flash movie. While they have the skills in-house to personalize the HTML portions of this Website template, they are seeking help from someone with skills ad decompiling and editing Adobe Flash (.swf) files.
This is expected to be a short project in which few text items in the file need to be modified, so there should not be a lot of actual Flash programming required. They anticipate a couple of hours for someone with the necessary skills. This is a paid project.
If interested, please contact Paul Bent via e-mail, he's President of the company.
Cameryn Harvey, CSULB student and partial owner of a new college social-networking website Partyspill.com is looking for a team of web designers/developers to redesign the website. The owners already have a design and applications in mind, the development team will work on developing these ideas.
To quote Cameryn, “We are looking for students who are visionaries and have an eye for the future. Seeing as we are college students ourselves, until our company takes off we can only offer college course credit, experience for their resumes and in some cases some equity in our company.”
If interested, please contact Cameryn Harvey directly via e-mail.
From Professor quotes, a collection of quotes gathered by a student.
May you put all your “little grey cells” to good use during Final Exams week!!! And Happy Holidays!
