Co-op opportunity with PMC-Sierra

Announcing: Co-op Job Opening
Apply now – this employer wants work to begin January 3.
To apply go to the Experience eRecruiting on the Co-op web page: http://www.engr.washington.edu/curr_students/coop/index.html
Questions? Contact us: engrcoop@uw.edu

Job Title:
Product Design Engineer
Description:
PMC-Sierra is currently looking for Implementation Engineer COOP to join our Implementation Group based in PMC-Sierra's Design Services. As a member of PMC-Sierra's Implementation Group, the successful candidate will help with the development of methodologies and run synthesis and static timing for high-performance designs and contribute to PMC-Sierra's state of the art products. Work with design team members across disciplines (Logic, Circuits, DFT, Layout) to meet timing closure, area, power, and performance requirements. Our team uses state-of-the art synthesis and static timing methodologies and tools to verify large and complex SOCs/ASICs.

Responsibilities
• Assist in Developing and executing implementation plans to synthesize, implement Design For Test, and/or close timing on complex digital integrated circuits at the block, subsystem or device level (100K to 10M+ gates), which are coded in VHDL/Verilog.
• Design, implement and maintain synthesis, DFT and Static Timing scripts using best-in-class methodologies.
• Learn to analyze log and report files to ensure the tools are getting the required results and make adjustments to the scripts to get the required results within the scheduled milestones.
• Communicate regularly with the project teams world-wide to resolve issues, communicate status and solve technical problems.

Qualifications
This position requires at least a junior or senior standing and registered in the Electrical or Computer Engineering departments.

• Willing to work hard and learn ASIC development
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Must be able to work in a team environment
• Excellent oral and written communications skills.
• Good software and scripting skills a plus
• Verilog/VHDL/PERL/TCL language knowledge a plus

About PMC
PMC-Sierra®, the premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, offers its customers technical and sales support worldwide through a network of offices in North America, Europe, Israel and Asia. PMC-Sierra provides semiconductor solutions for Enterprise Storage, Wide Area Network Infrastructure, Fiber To The Home, and Laser Printer/SMB NAS markets. The Company is publicly traded on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the PMCS symbol. For more information, visit www.pmc-sierra.com.

PMC-Sierra will subsidize your co-op fees for the Winter 2011 quarter if you are enrolled in an official co-op program. If you qualify, PMC-Sierra may also offer you relocation assistance.

AfterCollege Engineering Scholarship Winner Announced

The third round recipient of the AfterCollege Engineering Student Scholarship Fund has been selected.

We would like to congratulate Fausto Morales of MIT!

The next winner will be selected in December. If you have not already applied for the scholarship, please visit the link below to apply:
http://www.aftercollege.com/content/article/aftercollege_engineering_student_scholarship/

2011 Bonderman Fellowship

We write to share an extraordinary opportunity for travel, discovery, and challenge. The 2011 Bonderman Travel Fellowship application is now available and we encourage you to consider applying. Graduate students (including those in the Law and Business Schools and other graduate and professional programs), undergraduate students (of junior and senior credit standing) in the University Honors Program, and undergraduate students (of junior and senior credit standing) in UW Tacoma's Global Honors Program in good standing are eligible for this opportunity.

David Bonderman - the donor - wishes to give students an opportunity to experience learning and growth in new and unexpected ways. Bonderman Fellows will undertake international travel on their own for eight or more months, to six or more countries in two or more major regions of the world. Through solo travel the Fellows will focus on exploration and discovery, learning about the world and themselves in it.

Up to seven graduate and seven undergraduate Bonderman Fellowships will be awarded in Spring 2011. Each Fellowship carries a $20,000 award to be used only for extended international travel. Fellows may not conduct research, pursue an academic project, or participate in a formal program or organization.

To learn more about this extraordinary opportunity, please attend one of the following information sessions. Due to space limitations you must RSVP for these sessions at catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/bbkelly/117386

· Monday, November 29, 2010, 12:30 p.m. in Electrical Engineering Building (EEB 45)

· Wednesday, January 5, 2011 4:30 p.m. in the Smith Hall (Smith 102)

· January, TBD

Applications are due at 12:00 p.m. (noon) on Monday, January 31, 2011. Please carefully review the guidelines at the below web sites, as well as the instructions and the application. We look forward to talking with you about this remarkable opportunity and to receiving your application.

Sincerely,

The University Honors Program The Graduate School

Seeking Undergraduate Researchers who Want to Make a Difference! - Apply by Nov. 29

Are you an Undergraduate Researcher who wants to make a difference for other students on campus? APPLY by NOV. 29 to be an UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH LEADER!

The Undergraduate Research Program (URP) is seeking enthusiastic and experienced undergraduate researchers, scholars and artists from all disciplines to be student leaders for the 2010-11 academic year. Undergraduate Research Leaders (URLs) will be pivotal in connecting undergraduates to URP. The goal for URLs is to increase awareness and participation of undergrads in research from a range of disciplines (e.g., humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, etc). The URL time commitment will be flexible, 1-2 hours/wk on average and dependent on quarterly events and student availability.

URL Responsibilities:
-> Represent undergraduate research at the UW
-> Assist URP with student-focused outreach and program events and materials
-> Participate in tabling events, workshops, panels, and the annual UW Undergraduate Research Symposium
-> Partner with URP staff and other URLs to propose and conduct a student-led project
-> Attend an initial orientation and training and quarterly gatherings with URP staff

URL Benefits:
-> Opportunity to make an impact on the educational experience of your peers and to make a difference for future undergraduate researchers
-> Invaluable outreach and leadership experience for Resume/CV building
-> Developing your leadership potential by organizing and participating in outreach events
-> Professional development workshops
-> Practicing your public speaking by talking about and promoting undergraduate research to student groups
-> Networking with students, faculty, and staff on and off campus
-> Receive a nifty URL sweatshirt and professional and personalized nametag

URLs will be selected based on recommendation and interest. URLs must be current UW undergraduates or 2009-10 graduates involved in research, scholarship or creative activities. The URL application and requested materials are attached and also on our website at: http://www.washington.edu/research/urp/.

Application DEADLINE: Nov. 29, 2010

Questions? Contact the staff of the Undergraduate Research Program at urp@uw.edu

Veteran's Career Fair

Hire America's Heroes
Qwest Field Event Center
Saturday, February 5, 2011
9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

http://www.hireamericasheroes.org/

Web Developer Student Position

The Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC) Clinical Trail Center seeks a STUDENT WEB DEVELOPER to join our team to help improve existing or implement new functionality for our web-oriented software system. Our software is a key part of a medical research project that aims to help save lives. The users of our site are the clinical staff at the UW Clinical Trials Center and staff at participating sites in cities in the U.S. and Canada.

Projects will be assigned based on your existing skills and interests as well as the importance and urgency of the projects. If desired and depending on arrangements with your department, work here may count for capstone project credits, independent study credits, or other project-oriented credits.

This is a good opportunity for students to get experience in a real-world environment and gain an edge when applying to jobs in the summer or after graduation. Undergraduate and graduate students are both welcome to apply.Â

Hours and Salary:
* Hours are flexible. We need students to commit to a schedule that's in the range of 25hr-40hr/wk
* Students should commit to at least 2 quarters, and we prefer longer commitments
* Pay will be based on experience, roughly ranging from $12 to $18 per hour

What the applicant can expect to learn while working here:
* Database-driven web application (Perl, Mason, HTML, CSS, Javascript,
AJAX, MySQL)
* Software engineering best practices (project planning, design
documents, bug-tracking, source control, etc.)

Requirements:
* Excellent oral and written communication skills
* Basic programming proficiency

Experience in the following is a plus:
* Web programming related technology (Perl, PHP, ASP, Python,
HTML/CSS, Javascript, AJAX, etc.)
* Software engineering methods (project planning, design documents,
bug tracking, source control, usability testing, etc.)
* Usage of relational databases (MySQL, MSSQL, Access, etc.)

To apply, please send resume to Art Kerr, adkerr@uw.edu

2011 Student Airborne Research Program

NASA is sponsoring the 2011 Student Airborne Research Program after the success of SARP in 2009 and 2010. The National Suborbital Education and Research Center at the University of North Dakota organizes the program for NASA. The program gives a total research experience to the students starting with lectures from university research faculty and NASA staff on all aspects of airborne research, hands on experience with airborne instrumentation, flight experience on a research data flight, sample and data analysis, and preparation and presentation of their research results. The 6 week program will be run from two locations in California, the University of California at Irvine campus and the NASA Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, CA. The 2010 program included 29 students from 24 universities from all areas of the country. Three outstanding student presentations were selected for presentation at the NASA booth at the 2010 American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting in San Francisco, CA this December.

The SARP 2011 flier can be accessed at http://www.nserc.und.edu/learning/SARP2011.html along with the application materials. Please direct any additional questions on the program to SARP2011@nserc.und.edu.