Members Sought for Libraries Student Advisory Committee

The University of Washington Libraries is seeking students for an exciting opportunity to serve the UW community. No longer is the library just a place for books! Libraries are transforming to meet students’ need for highly collaborative spaces where technology and information come together. But we need your help to do it right! The Libraries Student Advisory Committee is a chance for students to get involved in the decision making processes that guide the enhancement of learning spaces and library services. The Libraries Student Advisory Committee is a great way to connect with other like-minded (and awesome!) students and to work directly with professional mentors. Your membership on the Committee will also enhance your own community service experience, which looks great on a resume or graduate school application.

Commitment:
Membership for one academic year, beginning autumn quarter
Weekly meetings during winter quarter (meeting schedule can be changed to accommodate your availability)
Independent or group work on projects for the Committee during winter quarter
Members may serve multiple terms.

Co-chairs of the Libraries Student Advisory Committee are Amanda Hornby (hornbya@uw.edu) and Anne Davis (adavey@uw.edu). See our website, www.lib.washington.edu/lsac, or email us for more information or to join!

Undergraduate Research Position: Mass Spectrometry Instrumentation

We are currently looking for motivated undergraduate Electrical Engineering students who are interested in learning and actively being involved in the hands-on design, fabrication and modification of mass spectrometry instrumentation used in biochemical/biomedical related research in the laboratory of Prof. James E. Bruce in the Department of Genome Science and located on UW’s South Lake Union campus (http://brucelab.gs.washington.edu/). This position would initially be as a student volunteer or for academic course credit and will quite possibly lead to a part-time paying position in the near future. Previous knowledge of, or commitment to learn, programing software (e.g. LabView) is desirable. Please email resumes/inquiries to Rick Harkewicz rharkew1@uw.edu.

AT&T Coding Challenge!

At AT&T, we’re embarking on our second Coding Challenge kicking off on August 26, 2013 – Nov. 22, 2013, and want to extend a formal invitation for your students to participate. The Coding Challenge is a competition to design and build an Android-based application using AT&T’s industry leading APIs. We’re inviting undergraduate students who are 18 or older from across the U.S. to participate in this one-of-a-kind competition to give students an opportunity to innovate together with the underlying power of the AT&T network.
The theme for the challenge will support the “It Can Wait” campaign. According to a recent AT&T Wireless survey, 75 percent of teenagers consider it “common” for their friends to text while driving. We’re challenging students to develop a creative app that will entice people to stop texting and driving.
Students can officially sign up for the Coding Challenge now using our online registration system.
Please keep in mind this important registration information and deadlines for your students:

• Registration Begins (August 26): Students can sign up and learn more about the Coding Challenge via our website, attcodingchallenge.att.com.
• Coding Challenge Kickoff (September 23): Official open to second annual Coding Challenge.
• Close of Coding Challenge (November 22): Official close to competition. Judges begin deliberation.
• Winners Announced (December 5): Five winning teams will be announced and rewarded with cash prizes.

For any questions, please reply to this email or contact us at ATTCodeChallenge@list.att.com. We’re looking forward to a fantastic competition and seeing the great work of your students.

Join the UWashington Formula Motorsports team!

Hi EE students,

My name is Sheena Kapur and I am the administrative director for the UWashington Formula Motorsports team.  We are a group of students who come together to design, manufacture, test, and race a small formula-one style race car against competitors from around the world.  This past year was a particularly exciting year for us for a few reasons.  This was our first year building an electric race car, in addition to our combustion race car. Also, our 1st place finish at FSAE West with our combustion car, 2nd place finish at the same competition with our electric car, and 7th place finish at Formula Student Germany with our combustion car, which is considered to be the premier Formula Student competition, has gained us a world ranking of 6th overall.

Even though I am thrilled about these accomplishments, there is always room to improve.  We need the expertise of electrical engineering students to help us build a winning eCar and improve upon our cCar design.  We are hoping that we can utilize the knowledge EE students have in order to help us take the 1st place spot in FSAE West and Germany, with both of our cars.

This program gives you the chance to apply the knowledge that you have learned in the classroom to a real-world project, giving you hands-on experience that's also a lot of fun!  People who have completed our program have gotten jobs/internships from some really cool companies, such as SpaceX, Tesla, Intel, Microsoft, etc.  

If you'd like more information about our program, please feel free to email me at skapur@uw.edu or check out our website, http://www.uwashingtonfsae.com/.  And if you'd like to apply to the team, you can visit the same webpage and click the "Apply Now!" button on the homepage. 

Thanks for taking the time to read this email! 

Regards,
Sheena Kapur
University of Washington '14
Human Centered Design and Engineering
UW Formula Motorsports Teams 23 to 25 - Administrative Director

Register Now! Fall Quarter Innovation in Cleantech=Solutions for the Planet

UW Environmental Innovation Practicum – Register Now for Fall Quarter Class!
Innovation in Cleantech + Market Opportunity = Solutions for the Planet

ENGR 498, ENVIR 495, ENTRE 443/543

Fall Quarter 2013 (2credits)

Tuesdays 4:00-5:50 pm, Paccar Hall 394

Instructor: Deborah Hagen-Lukens, dlhagen@uw.edu

No prerequisites, recommended for juniors, seniors and grad students

Check out the cool speakers and panel members! <Syllabus Here>

 

The goal is to discover the universe of cleantech solutions to our most pressing environmental challenges and to raise awareness of how you might be part of that solution.  You’ll form teams around problems you identify, and present your solutions to the class.  Although not required, teams are invited to compete in the UW Environmental Innovation Challenge April 3, 2014.

Required Text: The Way Out: Kick-Starting Capitalism to Save Our Economic Ass, by L. Hunter Lovins and Boyd Cohen.  Course topics will include:

• Environmental challenges and opportunities linked to cleantech.
• How to translate an idea into an actual device/product/company 
• Market assessment (who would be the customer for this product or service?)

Contact me if you have questions!

 

Pam Tufts | Assistant Director
Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship

UW Foster School of Business, Dempsey Hall 227
206.685-3813 ptufts@uw.edu
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UW Environmental Innovation Challenge
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LISA '13 Student Grant Deadline Approaching

Calling all students!

LISA ‘13 grant applications are due Monday, September 30, 2013
Apply at: https://www.usenix.org/students/grants

Guidelines and hints for can be found at: https://www.usenix.org/students/tips

Register online for LISA '13 at: https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13/registration-information

Taking place November 3-8, 2013, in Washington, D.C., LISA '13 includes:

40 half- and full-day training sessions from the industry's top instructors, including:

• SRE University: Non-Abstract Large System Design for Sysadmins by John Looney, Google
• Root Cause Analysis by Stuart Kendrick, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
• PowerShell Fundamentals by Steven Murawski, Stack Exchange
• Introduction to Chef by Nathen Harvey, Opscode
• Sessions on building good habits, increasing effectiveness in the first 100 days with a new company, and learning how to navigate the business world that will instill (or refresh) useful soft skills training that will stay with you for the duration of your career

A technical program that offers practical information on a variety of key topics, including:

• Jason Hoffman's Keynote Address, “Modern Infrastructure: The Convergence of Network, Compute, and Data”
• Talks such as Hilary Mason’s Plenary, “Data Engineering for Complex Systems”; and the Closing Session, “PostOps: A Non-Surgical Tale of Software, Fragility, and Reliability,” by Todd Underwood
• Practice and Experience Reports and paper presentations on practical concepts such as storage and data, monitoring, tools, and building and infrastructure

Interactive sessions, including:

• NEW for 2013! The LISA Lab Hack Space allows attendees to investigate new technologies, apply what they have learned, and interact with other attendees in a participatory technical setting.
• Poster Sessions, BoFs, and Lightning Talks
• The Vendor Exhibition, where you'll learn about cutting-edge products and services from industry leaders, provocative startups, and open source projects
• Guru Is In sessions--led by experts including Daniel J Walsh on SELinux, Adele Shakal on project management, and Charles Wimmer on Hadoop--which allow you to pose your toughest questions and get answers.
• Last, but certainly not least, the "hallway track," which offers ample opportunity to meet and mingle with colleagues and industry leaders during breaks, BoFs, and other social activities.

Learn more at www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13 <http://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13> Join us online:
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LISA '13 Student Grant Deadline Approaching

Calling all students!

LISA ‘13 grant applications are due Monday, September 30, 2013
Apply at: https://www.usenix.org/students/grants

Guidelines and hints for can be found at:
https://www.usenix.org/students/tips

Register online for LISA '13 at:
https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13/registration-information

Taking place November 3-8, 2013, in Washington, D.C., LISA '13 includes:

40 half- and full-day training sessions from the industry's top
instructors, including:
* SRE University: Non-Abstract Large System Design for Sysadmins by John
Looney, Google
* Root Cause Analysis by Stuart Kendrick, Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research Center
* PowerShell Fundamentals by Steven Murawski, Stack Exchange
* Introduction to Chef by Nathen Harvey, Opscode
* Sessions on building good habits, increasing effectiveness in the
first 100 days with a new company, and learning how to navigate the
business world that will instill (or refresh) useful soft skills
training that will stay with you for the duration of your career

A technical program that offers practical information on a variety of
key topics, including:
* Jason Hoffman's Keynote Address, “Modern Infrastructure: The
Convergence of Network, Compute, and Data”
* Talks such as Hilary Mason’s Plenary, “Data Engineering for Complex
Systems”; and the Closing Session, “PostOps: A Non-Surgical Tale of
Software, Fragility, and Reliability,” by Todd Underwood
* Practice and Experience Reports and paper presentations on practical
concepts such as storage and data, monitoring, tools, and building and
infrastructure

Interactive sessions, including:
* NEW for 2013! The LISA Lab Hack Space allows attendees to investigate
new technologies, apply what they have learned, and interact with other
attendees in a participatory technical setting.
* Poster Sessions, BoFs, and Lightning Talks
* The Vendor Exhibition, where you'll learn about cutting-edge products
and services from industry leaders, provocative startups, and open
source projects
* Guru Is In sessions--led by experts including Daniel J Walsh on
SELinux, Adele Shakal on project management, and Charles Wimmer on
Hadoop--which allow you to pose your toughest questions and get answers.
* Last, but certainly not least, the "hallway track," which offers ample
opportunity to meet and mingle with colleagues and industry leaders
during breaks, BoFs, and other social activities.

Learn more at www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13
<http://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13>

Join us online:
Facebook: www.usenix.org/facebook <http://www.usenix.org/facebook>
YouTube: www.usenix.org/youtube <http://www.usenix.org/youtube>
Google+: www.usenix.org/gplus <http://www.usenix.org/gplus>
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