Thursday 24 September 2015

Where do our undergraduate students go for internship

Internships for academic credit:
Spring 2105:

  • Data Management Services, Inc.
  • NSA, Department of Defense
  • U.S. Silica
  • CRW One Group, LLC
  • Excivity, Inc.

Fall 2014:

  • Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI)
  • United Way of Frederick County
  • Ryan and Wetmore, P.C.
  • U.S. Silica

Spring 2014:

  • Frederick County Government IIT
  • Digital Receiver Technology, Inc.


Internships completed not for academic credit

  • NSSP at CACI
  • NIST SURT
  • Experient
  • NIST

Wednesday 26 August 2015

Job and Intern Information (inquiries from local area) Fall 2015

Interns:

Frederick Police Department (contact College Career Center)
Ryan & Wetmore Law Firm (contact College Career Center)

Employments:

Andrews Federal Credit Union
  .NET developer

Independent studies Fall 2015

Mark White: Implementation of Modular Robotic Platform for Demonstrating a Solution for Two-Wheel Inverted Pendulum System (supervisor, Dr. Dimitolgou)

Saturday 25 July 2015

The Ambassador Program

We are starting this alum 'Ambassador' program to help potential applicants to our MS in CS program better understand the ins and outs of our program and our college from a colleague's perspective.  For example, if a public school teacher in Hagerstown wants to know more about the program, we will refer Mr. Peter O'Conner, a current Master Degree student and a current teacher at WCPS.

I am building up this list slowly, whenever I ran into some student or alum who volunteers.  We will appreciate if you volunteer.  Please send me your employer and contact method.

Montgomery County Public Schools, Daniel Moxley
Maryland General Assembly, Jagriti Nanda

Monday 20 July 2015

OpenACC license for Academic now free through NVIDIA

NVIDIA and PGI just launched a new, exciting product for scientists and researchers looking to get started on GPU computing.  The new NVIDIA OpenACC Toolkit is designed to provide everything required to quickly and easily accelerate scientific codes on GPUs. It's a great starting point for anyone who may be interested in GPU programming.

Best of all, the toolkit includes a free OpenACC compiler license for student, postdoc, or faculty at any academic institution.
Hood College is an NVIDIA Education Center.

Monday 18 May 2015

Summer Independent Study

Peter O'Connor, Development and implementation of edge-finding algorithms for the surveying of freshwater bodies using LIDAR and sonar sensors (supervisor: Dr. Dimitoglou)

Monday 11 May 2015

Dr. Chang Awarded "Academic Innovation Grant"

Dr. Elizabeth Chang was awarded an Academic Innovation Grant with her proposal "Inverted Classroom Teaching for Computer Graphics".

Friday 6 March 2015

intern / programming / mobile / Hood alum

Company: Spotluck Inc.
Industry: Food/Beverage & Software (download the app!)
Hours: ~15/week
Location: Bethesda, MD (one day/week in office)
Pay: $15/hour
Required skills/experience:
  • Proactive, self-starter
  • Clear written and verbal skills
  • MV* JavaScript Frameworks, preferably AngularJS
  • Solid understanding of SQL and MySQL databases.
  • Front end web technologies: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript
  • Hybrid Mobile App Development (e.g. HTML5, Frameworks like Cordova, Phonegap and Ionic)
  • Data visualization techniques using JS libraries.
  • Familiar with single page web app architectures using Node.js and NPM.
  • Understanding of modern grid-based responsive frameworks like Bootstrap, Foundation and HTML5 techniques to develop responsive apps.
Detail: Spotluck acquires extensive and valuable app usage data. Certain data points are provided to Spotluck’s merchants via a web dashboard (e.g., number of diners, discount utilization, “spin” stats, diner demographical data, reviews/ratings). Spotluck also has an admin dashboard where we monitor platform-wide statistics. This position would assist in running database queries to extract information and then transforming that information into user-friendly charts and dashboards.
Contact: Bradford Sayler, brad@spotluck.com, 240-446-6632
 
Thanks again!
 
Bradford J. Sayler
Chief Financial Officer
240-446-6632
Skype: bsayler9

Thursday 12 February 2015

Symposium on "Exploring Careers in a Scientific Environment"

Greetings,

I want to alert you to a great opportunity next week at Hood.  The National Interagency Confederation for Biological Research (NICBR) is holding a symposium on "Exploring Careers in a Scientific Environment".  The symposium was originally set up for FCPS teachers (specifically local Science and STEM coordinators/curriculum specialists) who could, in turn, share this information with their students.  However, once the venue was moved from Fort Detrick to Hood, the organizers were delighted to open this up to Hood faculty, staff and students.

The event is on Friday, February 13, 2015, from 12:30-3:00 p.m. in the Hodson auditorium in Rosenstock Hall.  You and your students are welcome to attend.

As the attached flyer notes: 

The event is sponsored by the NICBR, a partnership of government laboratories located on the Fort Detrick-Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research campus.  The partners include the U.S. Army; National Cancer Institute; Department of Homeland Security; Department of Agriculture; U.S. Navy; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The goal of the symposium is to present information regarding science-related career paths to educators.  The symposium will include presentations by the NICBR partners that will:
*             Give an overview of research being performed at Fort Detrick
*             Illustrate the types of careers that require science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education, and
*             Highlight internship opportunities.

Please encourage your students (undergrad/grad) to attend.  There is no need to register for the event.   I will send out a separate email to the student listservs.

Cheers,
Maria

Maria Green Cowles, Ph.D. Dean of the Graduate School
and Professor of Political Science   The Graduate School at Hood College
  401 Rosemont Avenue 
  Frederick, MD 21701
  Email: 
cowles@hood.edu
  Phone: 301-696-3811 Fax: 301 696-3597

Please join us for a Graduate School Event

Monday 26 January 2015

REU: Research Experience for Undergraduate Summer 2015

NSF REU programs present an rare opportunity for undergraduate students to work with leading research groups on cutting edge technology.  It also provides generous support, which usually includes lodging/travel and very attractive stipends.  Application Deadline varies, but are around March 1 (some require US citizenship or permanent residency).

REU at UT Austin Computational Science/Engineering
REU at UT Dallas in  Software Safety
REU at LSU  in Computational Sciences,
REU at  Clemson in Collaborative Data Visualization Applications (application due 3/31/2015)

Tuesday 20 January 2015

Webinar: Supercomputing in Plain English

Supercomputing in Plain English (SiPE), Spring 2015
Available live in person and live via videoconferencing

http://www.oscer.ou.edu/education/

Over 500 people have already registered for 2015, bringing our
grand total over the years to over 2000 served, from
50 US states and territories as well as 17 other countries in
Asia, Europe, North America and South America.

(If you're in New Hampshire, Rhode Island or Vermont, we'd
especially love to have you, because we've never had anyone
else participate from your state.)

LAST CHANCE TO SIGN UP!

If you don't get registered in time, you're still welcome to
join us, by following the instructions on the webpage, and
also please send e-mail to:

sipe2015@gmail.com

Please feel free to share this with anyone who may be
interested and appropriate.

IF YOU'VE ALREADY REGISTERED, please forward or ignore --
there's no need to re-register.

Tuesdays starting Jan 20 2015, 1:30pm Central Time
(3:30pm Atlantic, 2:30pm Eastern, 12:30pm Mountain,
11:30am Pacific, 9:30am Hawai'i-Aleutian)

Sessions are 1 hour, but please budget 1 1/4 hours, in case
we run long or there are lots of questions.

Live in person: Stephenson Research & Technology Center boardroom,
University of Oklahoma Norman campus

Live via videoconferencing: details to be announced

Registration:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/supercomputing-in-plain-english-spring-2015-registration-14309649547

(You only need to register ONCE for the whole semester,
not for every week.)

We already have over 500 registrations!

So far, the SiPE workshops have reached over 1500 people at
248 institutions, agencies, companies and organizations in
47 US states and territories and 10 other countries:

* 178 academic institutions;
* 29 government agencies;
* 26 private companies;
* 15 not-for-profit organizations.

SiPE is targeted at an audience of not only computer scientists
but especially scientists and engineers, including a mixture of
undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staff.

These workshops focus on fundamental issues of High Performance
Computing (HPC) as they relate to Computational and Data-enabled
Science & Engineering (CDS&E), including:

* overview of HPC;
* the storage hierarchy;
* instruction-level parallelism;
* high performance compilers;
* shared memory parallelism (e.g., OpenMP);
* distributed parallelism (e.g., MPI);
* HPC application types and parallel paradigms;
* multicore optimization;
* high throughput computing;
* accelerator computing (e.g., GPUs);
* scientific and I/O libraries;
* scientific visualization.

The key philosophy of the SiPE workshops is that an HPC-based code
should be maintainable, extensible and, most especially, portable
across platforms, and should be sufficiently flexible that it can
adapt to, and adopt, emerging HPC paradigms.

Prerequisite:

1 semester of programming experience and/or coursework in any of
Fortan, C, C++ or Java, recently

Thursday 15 January 2015

Large Spring Enrollment

Although official number won't be known until after the end of the add/drop period (some are on the road, and some are still awaiting for visa), Spring 2015 is set to see one of largest enrollment in our graduate programs. Twenty three graduate students participated in the orientation last evening. Over half of them are incoming computer science graduate students, and most of them will be full time.

With increased enrollment, we will be able to offer more elective courses and develop new programs to keep up with fast paced technology advancement.

Monday 12 January 2015

Lecture Position at UMBC

UMBC has an opening for a full-time lecturer joint between CS and IS. The split would depend on background, teaching interests, etc. This might be suitable for an MS grad with an interest in teaching. More info is here.

Wednesday 7 January 2015

Graduate Registration Now Under the College Registrar's Office

Graduate registration function has moved from the Graduate Office (3rd floor Apple) into the Registrar's Office (2nd floor Apple). For continuing students, you will still see a familiar friend face Ms. Traci Holland for this.

Monday 5 January 2015