General
Events
Microsoft Shadow Opportunities for EECS and CS
Students, Google Games is coming!, Venture
Lab CLEAN TECH Innovation Prize
Upcoming
Infosessions and Workshops
Global Poverty & Practice Minor
Internships
ClickStream Technologies
Fellowships/Award
Information
2008 Dam Safety Scholarship Program
Career/Job
Information
St. Jude Medical, Assorted
Firms, wikispaces.com
Google Games is coming!
Save the Date: Saturday, April 26, 2008
Compete for victory in challenges that test your creative, mental and "athletic" mettle at the Google Games! Teams of five will go head to head in rigorous events: Lego Building, Puzzles and "Athletic" contests. Also, we will test your knowledge of Computer Science, Math, and Geek Culture. In addition to the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, Google will also be supplying free refreshments to all participants and prizes to our top competitors. Look out for additional information and how to register. Mark your calendars now and start getting your friends together to form your team! \
Cal Bears get ready to beat Stanford!
Less Than 2 Weeks until THE APRIL 1 (TUESDAY) DEADLINE
Announcing the Venture Lab CLEAN TECH Innovation Prize
$20,000 in prizes available to UC Berkeley affiliated teams.
Additional $5,000 in Travel Scholarships to Copenmind Available to Interested
Teams
Inviting All UC Berkeley Students, Faculty and Staff to Apply by April 1
The Venture Lab CLEAN TECH Innovation Prize seeks to recognize and bring together UC Berkeley engineers and scientists working on applied research and technology with commercial potential in the field of clean technology. Prizes will be awarded to teams that best demonstrate an innovative solution to one of today’s pressing clean technology problems. The competition’s winners will receive recognition for the work; more than $20,000 in cash awards and prizes; and strategic networking opportunities with venture capitalists and industry leaders.
The competition is open to all UC Berkeley faculty, students, and staff as well as the staff of the Lawrence Berkeley Labs. Cal alumni and others may also participate if at least one team member is currently affiliated with UC Berkeley.
It’s VERY EASY to Apply: Applications due April 1 Semifinalists will be announced on April 3. On the evening of April 8, semifinalist teams will make short presentations to a panel of judges from the clean tech community followed by an in-depth Q&A and the announcement of the winners.
For details on the competition rules, please visit http://cet.berkeley.edu/
Questions? Email
Global Poverty & Practice Minor
Information Sessions
The undergraduate minor in Global Poverty & Practice is seeking a diverse and interdisciplinary group of students to explore the complex issue of global poverty and its alleviation. Please attend an information session to learn more about the minor requirements and how to declare. This is the final information session for the Spring Semester declaration deadline on April 1st:
Tuesday, March 18th
12:30 - 1:30 pm
103 Stephens Hall (Use the IASTP Door on the Northwest Corner of the Building)
ClickStream Technologies is currently seeking CS majors for paid internship(s) during all academic semesters, especially this summer. Interns will be writing code that is used by thousands over the course of several weeks and will have exposure to senior managers at the world’s largest software companies.
About our company
ClickStream Technologies offers the most advanced, accurate PC activity intelligence technologies for software developers and corporate IT departments. Our team of experts integrates data collected using our ClickSight® and ClickInsight™ technology with research and site visits to produce winning strategies for market growth, product optimization, increased profitability, and enhanced customer satisfaction. Our clients include Microsoft and Adobe. ClickStream Technologies is a Berkeley-based company. Our office is located 2 blocks from the UC Berkeley campus.
Required Experience
Preferred Experience
To learn more about our company, please visit www.clickstreamtech.com
The Association of State Dam Safety Officials is pleased to announce its 2008 Dam Safety Scholarship Program.
As a national association dedicated to furthering dam safety in the United States, ASDSO has an integral interest in developing future leaders in the field of dam safety engineering. Please this page for more information about or Association and the scholarship program http://www.damsafety.org/community/students/?p=61c91bdd-f19b-42e0-aac2-d62d424ab2b9. Up to $10,000 is available for the 2008-2009 school year.
Applications are due on March 28, 2008 and winners will be announced in June. Students planning to graduate in May/December 2009 are eligible to apply for the scholarships.
You may call ASDSO at 859/257-5140 for additional forms.
St. Jude Medical - CRMD will be interviewing on campus April 2nd
We are looking to hire up to four BSEE or MSEE new graduates.
St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ) is a global leader in the design and development of cardiac management devices such as pacemakers and implantable defibrillators. Our products help save lives in more than 130 countries and we have over 20 operations and manufacturing facilities worldwide. We were Ranked # 1 by Fortune Magazine as Most Admired Medical Products and Equipment Company for 2007 and 2008. At St. Jude Medical we offer a stable and ethical work environment where you can build a challenging and rewarding career.
We are interviewing on campus April 2nd for BSEE or MSEE graduates. If you are interested, please sign-up at your career center. (career.berkeley.edu)
We are seeking a MSEE new graduates or BSEE graduates with at least one year of work or Intern experience to join our Electrical Characterization & Verification Group in the Cardiac Rhythm Management Division. This person will work on products that help save and pro-long people’s lives. Within the first six months, this person will become familiar with pacer and ICD products through hands-on bench testing, communication with team members inside and across groups, and supplement training classes. Within twelve months this person will understand what it takes to effectively characterize and verify implantable devices and gain knowledge of pacer and ICD product design including exposure to electrical, mechanical, firmware, ATE, system, and clinical areas. This position offers a tremendous opportunity for growth and career development.
Required Skills:
BSEE, at least one year work experience, very comfortable with using lab equipment (e.g. oscilloscopes, frequency generators, etc.), knowledge of C coding language, understanding of basic analog and digital circuit concepts, enjoys hands-on work, actively engages with team and across functions, motivated to learn about and contribute to biomedical product development, ability to pick thing up quickly and desire to take things on independently. To Interview:
If you are about to graduate with a BSEE or MSEE degree and interested in pursuing a career in the medical device field, please sign up for the on campus interview through your career center.
Company - St. Jude Medical - CRMD
Interview Date - April 2nd, 2008
Specific Job Title - Hardware Development and Verification Engineer
Also, please note we have additional openings posted on the Career Center website, such as 6 month Co-Op for EE students and ATE for new graduates.
If you missed the recent Alsop Louie Portofolio Infosession here's the info on WHO was there and HOW to get in touch with any of the startups.
Here are is a summary of the firms that attended and the positions for which they are hiring. We encourage you to contact the firms directly to learn more about the positions. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Cake Financial- Sven-
Cake is the leading online social network for investing based upon people's
real portfolio holdings, actual performance and daily trades. Cake makes it
easy to understand your entire portfolio performance by letting you automatically
track all of your online brokerage accounts in one place and by providing meaningful
performance calculations that are rarely supplied to the individual investor.
Positions: Web developers and java developers
Redux- Brent-
Founded in late 2006, Redux is a venture backed startup whose goal is to be
the pioneer in the People Discovery category. Redux taps into the basic human
need to connect, combining a unique software algorithm with a compelling media
experience. Job Requirements: Our engineers use a mix of PC (running Vista and
XP) and Apple workstations, although the development environment is FreeBSD.
As far as development environments go, a strong UNIX background will be sufficient.
Engineers should have incredibly strong Javascript and CSS skills, with Python,
AJAX, DHTML.
Justin.tv- Michael-
Justin.tv is building the destination site for broadcasting and watching live
video online while chatting with friends. The Justin.tv live video network is
powered by Python Media Server - a custom built live streaming video server
cluster. The network can support thousands of live broadcasts and over 100,000
simultaneous viewers and is 100% owned and operated by Justin.tv. The Justin.tv
chat system is powered by the JTV Twisted Chat Server - a custom built chat
server that implements a wide variety of filtering and moderation techniques
and relays well over a million messages a day.
Kinfo-Daniel-
Kinfo is a venture-funded Web startup building a unique media sharing and social
networking application for the family. We're small (7 employees at this point)
but growing. Everyone contributes on multiple levels--product definition and
business tactics as well as coding--and we have a lot of fun. Job Requirements:
We're looking for smart people who want to do Web development using Ruby on
Rails. We'd love it if you were already at least playing with Rails, but if
you've done projects in Python, PHP or Java and are interested in learning,
we'll teach you. Experience with JavaScript, DHTML and CSS is highly desirable;
experience with MySQL (or other RDBMS) and AJAX or Flash/Flex is a plus. Both
summer internships and full-time positions are available.
Ribbit- Ramani-
Ribbit is the result of a group of Silicon Valley phone and Web veterans coming
together, in a distinctly new way, to create a distinctly new company. Ribbit
is an open platform for telephony innovation. Unlike any other phone company,
we are giving our developers unprecedented access to our technology, through
the Ribbit API and allowing them to innovate at will. Our business is built
more like a software company than a phone company. Rather than thinking we can
do it all ourselves, we are counting on our developers to create the next generation
communications solutions we have all been waiting for.
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