Argonne Co-op Opportunity

We received a message from Emily Mancini, from Argonne National Labs Communications, Education and Public Affairs Department.   In it she stated:

"We would like to alert to you immediate opportunities for undergraduates to work part-time at Argonne National Laboratory while maintaining full-time student status. Over the years, many students have become involved in conducting research with Argonne scientists and engineers. We are particularly interested in students who are majoring in Computer Science.

The Laboratory offers such opportunities through its Co-op Program. We offer Parallel Co-op Appointments in which the students work part-time, up to a maximum of 19 hours per week during the academic year and 40 hours per week during the summer period OR full-time hours in alternating semesters."

Please note this is a paid internship at a prestigious facility.  If you are at least a sophomore with a minimum GPA of 2.87 this is worth investigating.  The USF Computer Science Department is happy to participate in the Co-operative Education program.

More details about the program can be found at:  http://www.dep.anl.gov/p_shared/coop/coop.htm

Here's a link to the application: http://www.dep.anl.gov/p_shared/coop/coopapp.pdf.

Good luck!

       

Coming Soon - Robotics

We're very excited to offer our first course in Robotics this coming Spring.  It will be taught by Computer Science alumnus, Tim Archer, who also spearheaded the development of the USF portal when he was with the USF IT Department. 

Students will build the Boe-Bot robots and program them as part of the course.  At the end of the semester the students will keep the robots.  It promises to be a wonderful and fun learning experience.

Game Programming Contest

This year the USF Computer Science Department joined forces with Joliet Junior College to host a Game Design Competition open to both high school students and college students in the area.  Winners were announce in May, 2011.

Three high school area students were awarded scholoarship money to attend USF.  The students are: Kyle Gunderson, Nick Prueter, and Tayler Baird.  Congratulations to our winners and to all who entered the contest. 

We're looking forward to next Spring's contest.

Awards

Congratulations to Nick Zelinkski who received the Joan Nahas Ramuta award Spring 2011 for all his work in the computer lab, his academic excellence, his assistance with tutoring.  This award is given each year to an outstanding senior in the Computer Science Department.  Our thanks Nick for all your work.  Nick is picture here with his mother and father at the awards ceremony on May 5th.

 Luis Escorza was also honored with the Meritorious Service Award for his work in the computer lab, with the Greening of the Campus committee's website.  He was a valued intern for USF’s IT department.  Last Fall, he helped prep the computers so that Google App Inventor could be used in the A102 lab with our donated smart phones for the Mobile Phone Seminar.  This semester Luis has also been involved with a project to improve wireless access for students in the dorms.

 

Graduation's here

Congratulations to all our Spring 2011 grads.  May 7, 2011

In Information Technology: Rob DeLong, Mike Dembeck, Luis Escorza, Jordan Parcel walked down the aisle

In Web Application Development: Matt Nosbisch, Brandon Rusnak.








Not pictured are Larissa Kries and Mike Murphy from Computer Science who could not make the ceremonies.

Ring up one for Alex!

Congratulations to Alex Schmid, Computer Science, Senior, on landing an internship with AT&T  for the summer of 2011.  He came out ahead of several candidates from other schools, so now he’ll be learning his way around Hoffman Estates.  

Good job, Alex!

Hello World, Android is here.

T.J. Eakle, Computer Science Alumnus, and member of the USF IS Department spent some time on Thursday, April 7th evening showing students, alumni, and other interested guests how to set up the development platform for the Android. 

T.J.’s step-by-step slides made it easy to follow and after the seminar he provided a copy of the slides which were emailed to all in case they weren’t able to attend or wanted a copy to keep.   The presentation is also available on the Presentations & Seminars link from this blog.

The opportunity to learn, whetted the appetites of the attendees for the upcoming class T.J will teach this Fall on Wednesday nights.   Jordan Parcel, Information Technology Senior, also helped out with the setup of the lab in preparation for the seminar and he helped guests sign on to the lab machines.  Thanks to T.J. and Jordan for all their work.  It was a great event.