Interested in MECOP?

I just received a note from Brian Moravec - the OIT MECOP faculty representative - saying that supplemental MECOP applications are now open for software and hardware students. If you are currently a JUNIOR and interested in the MECOP program please send me a note (randal.albert@oit.edu) and I will gladly forward you Brian's email message that contains a link to the application website. Note that while there is no closing date specified, Professor Moravec thinks that it may close before the start of winter term.

If you have any specific questions you can also write Brian at brian.moravec@oit.edu.

Hope you are all having a safe, relaxing, and enjoyable Christmas break!

FREE Oregon Tech Christmas Party - YOU are invited

This Sunday, December 4 from 4:00 to 6:30 pm at the College Union Crater Lake Complex

Students, you are invited to the Oregon Tech Christmas party to enjoy a festive evening featuring a complimentary traditional buffet dinner, a visit by Santa Claus, and sounds of the season. Even though our famous departmental Chef Phong will not be doing the cooking at this event, Adria in President Maples office told me the food will be very good!

Please RSVP by December 1 to Adria Paschal at adria.paschal@oit.edu

We hope to see you all Sunday night and Good Luck on your final exams next week!

Run Scott Run

Congratulations to sophomore CSET student Scott Minor who travels to the national cross country championships Saturday at the Fort Vancouver National Monument in Vancouver, Washington.

The race begins at 10:30 am. Good luck Scott from all of the students and the faculty in the CSET department! Enjoy your run!

Let the Games Begin - Game Night - WEDNESDAY in PV 147 - Free Food

Attention Gamers - The EPIC folks are sponsoring a game night THIS Wednesday, November 16th in PV 147 with free food and drinks provided. Food will be served at 6:30 PM and games will start at 7:00 PM. The games are Team Fortress 2 and some Kinect Games.

Thanks Sherry, Patrick, and all the rest of the EPIC students for putting this together!

Microsoft Meet the Company Virtual Presentation

Interested in learning more about Microsoft?

When: Wednesday, November 9th @5:30
Where: College Union

Please join Microsoft for a virtual Q & A with OIT Almuni and learn about software opportunities and get all your technical interviewing questions answered.

FOOD (PIZZA) WILL BE SERVED

Labs open on Veterans Day from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm

The labs will be available if you need them on Friday and regular hours on Saturday.

The Tech Talks Continue @ 4:00 pm in PV 206 this WED with Brett Howard

Career Fair Activities - Pizza tonight, dinner tomorrow night ...

Please remember that tonight Sierra Pacific has an info session at 7:00 pm in Mt. McLoughlin - and is providing FREE pizza. Tomorrow night, Rentrak is hoping to visit with interested seniors at a dinner they are providing at the Shilo Inn (you must RSVP for the Rentrak dinner with Career Services).

Have fun at the Career Fair tomorrow afternoon!

Rentrak Dinner for Interested Seniors and Juniors in CSET

Just a reminder, if you are interested in learning more about Rentrak (in Portland, OR) as a possible employer please make sure you sign up with Jan in Career Services for a free dinner and discussion they are sponsoring on Tuesday, November 1 at the Shilo. Please plan to dress appropriately. BTW, 2011 SET graduate Matt Small will be joining Miriam Lea in representing Rentrak.

Career Fair - NEXT Tuesday & Resume Doctor - 11:00 - 1:00 in the CU Monday - Friday

Seniors interested in full-time employment and folks interested in internships - REMEMBER the Career Fair is next Tuesday and you should absolutely make it a point to see Jan Goodyear ASAP in the LRC to get registered at the OIT Career Center.

In addition, the Resume Doctor will be in the CU from 11:00 - 1:00 each day this week to help you with your resume as needed.

Colloquium Series Continues THIS WED at 4:00 pm

We have a bit of a change in our speakers for this week - below is some brief information about this weeks exciting guests.

Richard Sweet and Bruce Hunt are principals in Oregon Stage Tech, a small start-up that has been creating theatrical lighting technology for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival during the last 7 years and is now preparing to market this new technology to other theaters. Both presenters have deep experience earned in the trenches of Silicon Valley during the emergence of the computer industry. During this presentation, they'll provide anecdotes, some non-obvious lessons learned, and a demo of their latest HW/SW hybrid products.

Dick is a software engineer with a better than average knowledge of hardware; Bruce is a hardware engineer with a better than average knowledge of software. This makes them a good team. Between them they hold nine patents.

Dick was a student of Donald Knuth at Stanford, where he received his PhD in Computer Science. He worked at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) starting in 1972, being present for the invention of the Ethernet, laser printing, the desktop windowing metaphor. After 13 years at PARC, he went to work for Chuck Geschke and John Warnock at Adobe Systems, where he created embedded controllers for the very first laser printers. He later joined the Adobe Advanced Technology Group, where he created a number of projects, including teaching Adobe Acrobat how to capture and display web pages.

Bruce holds a M.S. in Computer Engineering from Stanford and has likewise enjoyed an extensive career at Silicon Valley start-ups and with major companies including Zilog and SRI International. He managed Apple Consulting Engineering Services from 1988 to 1993, creating such products as a "military-spec" Macintosh, greeting card kiosks for Hallmark, a locomotive management system for Burlington Northern RR, and more. Bruce worked as an engineering manager for numerous companies, including managing the ShockWave product at Macromedia and managing Internet Research in the Advanced Technology Group at Adobe Systems.

Dick is a self described “theater junkie” who moved to Southern Oregon because of the Shakespeare Festival. Bruce is a model railroad enthusiast who also enjoys theater.

New Student / Freshmen BBQ - THIS MONDAY @ 5:00 pm

Don't forget that ALL new students are encouraged to please attend the CSET department BBQ Monday, October 10th, at 5:00 pm in PV 206. Chef Phong will be cooking up his world famous hot dogs along with some other great food.

Hope to see you all at the BBQ at 5:00 pm in Purvine Hall!

Colloquium Series Starts THIS WED at 4:00 pm

Please click the picture to see the poster in full size. Note that many of the speakers are coming in from the Rogue Valley during the month of October and we sincerely believe you will enjoy each weekly session. Cookies will be served!

TODAY - Transfer Students Meeting w/Faculty & Registrar - 5:00 pm

Remember that if you are a NEW TRANSFER student please try to attend our meeting tonight at 5:00 PM in PV 147. Wendy Pederson, the OIT Registrar, will be joining a number of the CSET faculty to try to answer any questions you may have about transferring in to the CSET department. Pizza will be served. Hope to see you soon!

Transfer Students Meeting w/Faculty & Registrar - MONDAY - October 3rd

If you are a new TRANSFER student please try to attend a meeting this MONDAY, October 3rd, at 5:00 pm in PV 147. In addition to having a number of the CSET faculty members on hand Wendy Pederson, the OIT Registrar will also be there to help answer your questions. A couple of CSET transfer students from last year will also be available to offer some suggestions and tips you might find helpful. Pizza will be provided!

Welcome New and Returning Students

It was a pleasure for a number of the CSET faculty to have lunch today with many of our new students! We look forward to seeing all of our new and returning students Monday.

We have a number of exciting events planned for this fall including a new student BBQ, a pizza and information night for our Transfer students, and a Guest Speakers Series during the months of October and November that you will all enjoy.

Welcome!

Your CSET Faculty

New Rankings from US News & World Report

If you are interested in seeing the latest rankings for colleges please check out the link below in today's Oregonian - it will make you smile!

http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2011/09/oregon_campuses_get_mixed_grad.html


See all of you returning students SOON! Please drive safe as you return back to Klamath Falls in the next few days.

Congratulations Troy and Eva

Troy and Eva Scevers have instantiated a lovely new baby girl named Sophia Rose. Eva and Sophia are doing well but Troy is still recovering, although he has assured us that the labs will be ready in about one week.

We are looking forward to seeing all of our returning students soon. Enjoy your last week of vacation.

Looking for Work & the Party is Almost Over

If any recent graduates are looking for jobs the following former students are looking for people.

Creo Agency - in Klamath Falls, OR (www.creoagency.com) - contact Marcus Blankenship at marcus@creoagency.com

Integra - in Portland, OR - contact Tom.Koster@integratelecom.com

There are also a number of openings in Austin, TX for both hardware and software folks according to Jarrod Levulett. If interested, please contact Jarrod at jzlevule@marvell.com.

Tom, Marcus, and Jarrod are very excited about their respective company and feel that these positions would be a great opportunity for an OIT graduate.


BTW - CLASSES START ONE MONTH FROM TODAY :-) We look forward to seeing many of you soon!

Lab Update - Purvine Hall

Below is an update on the labs from Troy, Matt, Art, and Josh:

Things are busy for the labs this summer. We are giving all the machines a thorough going through and repairing all the problems. The biggest change you will see this fall is the deployment of DeepFreeze by Faronics. With this software we are going to be able to solve a lot of the problems we were having in the labs. Students will now have Administrative Privileges to the machines to try out new things. When the machines reboot they will go back to a known state. Anything on the local hard drive will be wiped out if its not part of the image. ALWAYS PUT YOUR DATA ON Z DRIVE.

The other change is that roaming profiles will also go away. This is due to all the problems we had with them last year. Hope you all are having a great summer and see you in the fall.

Alumni & Faculty Barbeque

The 5^th Annual Alumni & Faculty Barbeque in Reno was held this past Saturday at Mark Bansemer’s house. It was great seeing so many of the IGT people, our IGT alumni along with alumni from Sacramento and other places. The OIT group included President Chris Maples, Erin Foley - VP for Student Affairs, Tracy Ricketts - Alumni Relations, and Ralph Carestia – Professor CSET were able to attend this year’s annual event.

Thanks to all the alumni that were able to attend and spend some time with their former colleagues along with the OIT faculty and administrators.

We look forward to hopefully seeing you all again next year, along with those folks that weren’t able to make it this year!

Welcome New Students

This past Friday during the third ROAD event 12 new students registered for classes in our department. They join the other 32 new and transfer students who registered at the previous ROAD. The next ROAD event is scheduled for August 12th.

We look forward to seeing you all in a couple more months. Hope you are enjoying the summer and be safe!

Services for Dana A. Nelson

The services for OIT SET alumni Dana Nelson have been set for Saturday, July 30th at 1:00 pm at Ward's funeral home (1945 Main Street), Klamath Falls, (541) 882-4404.

There will be a 2:00 pm reception / get together at 230 North 10th Street (Methodist Church) in Klamath Falls (541-884-4053).

The family would appreciate donations to any of the following charities: Rocky mountain elk foundation, NRA, Human Society (preferably the Klamath County one), and the American Diabetes Association.

Condolences to the Nelson Family

I am sad to report that one of our alumni, Dana A. Nelson Jr. passed away a few days ago. Dana graduated in August, 1999 with a degree in SET.

He is survived by his wife Linda (who had worked in the OIT Library) and his son Dana A. Nelson III, also a SET alumni. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Nelson family.

Article in Oregonian on Intel Interns

There is an interesting article in the Oregonian about an internship program for Freshmen based upon an interview with our very own SET alumni and a great supporter of our department and OIT, Tavish Ledesma from Intel.

This summer there are TWO interns from the CSET department who were hired by Tavish as part of this new pilot program he initiated. You can read the entire article here: http://www.oregonlive.com/beaverton/index.ssf/2011/07/intel_and_nike_interns_face_off_in_first_cross-company_sport_challenge.html

Hope you are all having a great summer!

Commencement Ceremony Pictures - 2011

If you want to see some really nice high quality pictures of some of our graduates from this years commencement check out the link below on Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oregontech/sets/72157626837000969/show/

Johnny Su - make sure you notice the last picture :-)

Enjoy!

Welcome New Students

Welcome to the 19 new students that registered for classes in our department this past Friday. They join the other 13 new and transfer students who registered two weeks earlier at the first ROAD event of the summer.

We look forward to seeing you all in a couple more months. Hope you are enjoying the summer!

Congratulations to Jim Long - Professor Jim Long

Please join us in congratulating Jim Long on his recent, well deserved promotion to full Professor!

Immediate opening for a software intern in Southern Oregon (Grants Pass)

Today I spent some time visiting with a number of key managers and developers at a company in Grants Pass called Pharmacy Computer Services, Inc.. They are doing some exciting things in relation to Web based applications, cloud computing, HCI, testing, etc. If you happen to live in the Grants Pass area and are interested in working THIS SUMMER in an exciting company of about 30 employees please let me (randal.albert@oit.edu) know ASAP and I will provide you with some additional information and a contact name. After visiting with them about our program it appears it would best if you had completed at least the sophomore year of the SET program and had taken CST 236 - Software Systems Testing.

If you have already graduated and are looking for full-time work or would like to return to southern Oregon they would love to talk with you too. I will visit with Jan Goodyear in our career center early next week and she too will be able to provide you with some additional information.

We hope you all have a safe and enjoyable 4th of July!

The Oregon Tech Foundation SUMMER Scholarship Application

If you are not currently receiving an Oregon Tech Foundation scholarship and have not been awarded one for the 2011-12 academic year you are invited to apply during the summer process. This online application allows you to apply for up to ten scholarships with one application.

· Application opens: June 27, 2011

· Application deadline: July 9, 2011 at 11:59 p.m.

Bookmark the application now! www.oit.edu/otfscholars

If you have any questions about the scholarship applications contact the OIT Financial Aid Office at 541.885.1280 or dollars@oit.edu.

Good luck!