Friday, January 29, 2010

Brown CDC Resources

The Brown University Career Development Center offers many resources that can help you explore your options.
Some of these include:
* Resource Library (1st floor, 167 Angell Street)—We house some great books (most can be borrowed) that profile many careers (advertising, government, public relations, media, consulting, public service, and many more!).
* Going Global—A great resource to see what kinds of international opportunities are out there and how to pursue them.
* Internship Reflections Database—This is a great way to see where recent Brown students have done internships. You can sort by concentration or area of interest.
* Career Search—A comprehensive database of every employer in the United States, sorted by geography, industry, and keyword.
* Wetfeet—Insider guides that describe whole industries and the related jobs within, as well as organization profiles.
* Resources by Career Field—We have taken the time to organize many useful links by career field, so you don't have to. Enjoy!

These are just some of the resources that you will find helpful as you begin your individual career development journey. If you have any questions as to how to use them, drop by for walk-in hours or email us at careerdevelopment@brown.edu.

Aftercollege Career Network

Get a head start on your job search by signing up on your AfterCollege career network here:
http://www.aftercollege.com/career-networks/brown-university/

- Have relevant jobs and employer invitations emailed to you
- Get exclusive opportunities from employers who are interested in students from your school and discipline
- Access Answers, an interactive question & answer forum that allows you to network with program alumni
- Build a private profile and request recommendations from faculty and classmates

To get started please take the following steps:

1. Visit your Career Network here:

http://www.aftercollege.com/career-networks/brown-university/

2. Click the blue “I’m a Member” button on the left.

3. Sign up (or sign in if you are already registered)

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Engineering Futures Workshop

(Click poster to view larger)

Engineering Futures Workshop - Group Work People Skills 2/6/10

We all know there's more to being a good engineer than completing problem sets on time and taking tests, but that sometimes seems like all we do. Engineering Futures is a program that was set up in response to the results of industry surveys to teach engineering students skills that were identified as key characteristics of successful engineers, but aren't part of a typical engineering curriculum.
On Saturday, February 6th, Brown's chapter of Tau Beta Pi will be hosting an engineering futures session on communicating and solving problems...with people, not with differential equations. From 3-6 PM a trained facilitator will be leading the session in Barus & Holley Room 190. For more information, see the attached poster, visit http://www.tbp.org/pages/About/Programs/EF/EFmain.cfm#P1, or email Eli_Fine@Brown.edu.

Saturday, Feb. 6th, 3-6 PM, B&H 190

Critical Reading and Writing II: The Research Essay

ENGL 0130 Critical Reading and Writing II: The Research Essay
CRN 21015
Section 01: The Science Research Essay
Location: 104 Sayles Hall
Instructor: Carol DeBoer-Langworthy
9 – 10:20 a.m. Tues.-Thurs (Spring semester 2010)

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
-Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (1920-1992)

Science is, in general, concerned with uncovering the truths of the natural world. This section of Academic Essay II explores how science, as an academic way of thinking and a method, is important in the development of critical thinking and expression of culture. Readings will examine the various dialects of scientific discourse. Writing exercises will allow practice in these dialects for specific uses.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

True Ventures

Want to work for a startup this summer? True Ventures is hiring.

True Ventures is a seed and very early stage venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Northern Virginia. We partner with talented entrepreneurs to help them build businesses in software and services, Internet, new media, gaming, mobile, and infrastructure. These are rapidly growing young companies that we think will shape or transform their target markets. You can help.

This summer, we are inviting a group of students to take part in the second True Entrepreneur Corps (TEC) program and join our portfolio companies in the San Francisco Bay area and across the country. As a member of TEC, you will be paired with one of our companies and spend eight weeks working on a variety of projects both appropriate to your background and skill set and of value to the company. For example, you could help design a new user interface for an e-commerce marketplace. You could help write code for a new Facebook game or a mobile sweepstakes. You could do market research to support the editors of one of the leading technology blog platforms.

Who are we looking for:

Hardworking, entrepreneurially minded students in the class of 2011 or 2012. Any major or educational interest may apply.

What makes us different:

We partner with promising entrepreneurs at the earliest stages in the highest-growth segments of the technology market, where history demonstrates the best rates of return. Along the way, we provide hands-on management support to guide our portfolio companies through the challenges of early growth. Then, in subsequent financing rounds, we work with trusted colleagues at other top-tier funds to build valuable syndicates for your company, but we have the financial strength to participate for the long term. Our team has directly founded over half a dozen startups and has over seventy years of combined venture capital experience. We like to put that experience to work for our entrepreneurs.

If you’re interested and want to learn more, visit:

http://www.trueventures.com/tec/

US FDA Master of Regulatory Science program

Opportunity with Arizona State University and the US Food and Drug Administration.

Arizona State University (the downtown campus in Phoenix) is collaborating with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - CDER) on a new Master of Regulatory Science program. FDA is going to support 10 students in the program, (pay all tuition, fees and some living expenses) commission them in the Public Health Service and, upon graduation, the students will owe 4 years back, working for FDA at CDER in Silver Spring, Maryland in the area of new product development/ regulatory affairs. These students will have tuition paid, living expenses, moving expenses and also receive a salary/benefits from being in the Commissioned Corps while here at ASU. This is one of only two such programs, the other program (at U Florida) is open only to pharmacists.

A Brown graduate (Biology major), Sandy Shire, DMD, MPA, is thrilled to be the new director even though the timeline is quite rushed; we have to recruit the FDA-sponsored students in the next six weeks. The program will also be open to other, paying students who will not be supported by the FDA. They will be free to work wherever they choose upon completion of the program. Careers in regulatory affairs are a rapidly growing sector and many engineers hold positions of leadership at the FDA and in regulatory affairs. I had a 25 year career with the Public Health Service as a commissioned officer and spent 14 of those years working for the FDA. It was a fantastic career choice for me and I don’t hesitate to recommend it to your students.

To qualify for a commission in the Public Health Service, students must be under the age of 44, U.S. citizens, in good health and also qualify by way of their educational or professional background. Engineers qualify with either a Bachelor’s degree or a Master’s degree, so a graduating student or a recent graduate would qualify. I can supply details when I speak with you. The students will also benefit from a paid internship at FDA during the summer between year 1 and year 2 of the program.
Contact Sandy Shire, DMD, MPA, CAPT (Ret) USPHS
Director, MS in Regulatory Science and Health Safety Program
Arizona State University
College of Nursing and Health Innovation
500 N. 3rd Street
Phoenix, Arizona 85004
Tel:602-496-1694
Sandra.Shire@asu.edu

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Medical Imaging Analysis Course

EN02912G : Medical Imaging Analysis - M/W/F 11-11:50 B&H 157
Summary
This course is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students from a variety of disciplines; including: Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Cognitive Science and Neuroscience as well as medical students and residents.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a powerful tool for investigating the biological structure and functional dynamics across an incredibly broad spatial and temporal scale. This course will provide an understanding of the basic physical principles of magnetic resonance; MR signal generation, detection and contrast mechanisms; and image acquisition and reconstruction. The course will also provide an overview of how MRI is currently used to study the gross structure, function and fiber architecture of the central nervous system, as well as touch on emerging fields in MRI, including molecular imaging and imaging genetics. This course is equally well-suited to the Physics and Engineering student with interest in medical imaging and neuroscience, as to the Neuroscience, Psychology or Biology student interested in the physics of and application of MRI.

The course material will be roughly split between the basic physical principals and mathematics of the magnetic resonance phenomena (signal general, image acquisition techniques, art and artifacts), and current applications of MRI in neuroscience (morphometry, functional imaging, diffusion tensor imaging, and molecular, cellular and genetic imaging). Detail and emphasis will depend on class background and interests. The course will also involve a hands-on lab at the Brown Magnetic Resonance Imaging Facility.
Taught by Sean Deoni

European Career Fair

Interested in the European job market? Thinking of studying in Europe,
or pursuing a career on the other side of the ocean?

You are cordially invited to join us at the largest career fair of its kind!
The 14th Annual European Career Fair @ MIT

When: January 29 - February 01, 2010 (9am - 5pm)
Where: Johnson Athletics Center - MIT Campus
Vassar St, Building W34
Cambridge, MA
Time: Varies
Cost: Free

Meet over 100 employers from top companies and organizations
https://www.euro-career.com/public/candidates/participatingcompanies.php

ECF 2010 Schedule:

Saturday, January 30th: Career Fair Day (Johnson Athletics Center, MIT), 9am - 5pm

Come in business attire and bring your resume!
Great networking opportunity with over 100 top European employers!
Interviews with selected candidates will be scheduled on the day!
Visit http://www.euro-career.com for more information

. Sunday, January 31st: Interview day (for selected candidates only)
. Monday, February 1st: Interview day (for selected candidates only)

Monday, January 25, 2010

Materials/Solid Mechanics Seminar

BROWN UNIVERSITY Joint Materials/Solid Mechanics Seminar Series
“Experimental Studies of Phase Transformation in Shape Memory Alloys”
Samantha Daly, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Monday, February 8, 2010 - 4:00-5:00 pm - B&H Room 190

Abstract:
Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are a group of metallic alloys that are able to revert to a previously defined size or shape when deformed and then heated past a set transformation temperature. This “shape memory” behavior is due to a shear-dominated diffusionless transition between crystalline phases of different symmetries. SMAs display other unusual mechanical properties that make them highly useful, including superelasticity, high vibration damping, high yield stresses, and high power to weight ratios. In addition, the alloys are durable and corrosion resistant. Nickel-Titanium is a promising SMA used in a wide variety of applications, including advanced biocompatible and MEMs materials.

This talk presents an experimental investigation into the propagation of stress-induced martensite through thin sheets of Nickel-Titanium. The martensitic phase boundary is observed using three-dimensional stereo-imaged digital image correlation (DIC) to map local strain fields, and simultaneous infrared (IR) imaging to map corresponding local temperature variations. Although other methods have been used to explore phase transformation in shape memory alloys, this methodology is unique in providing a quantitative estimate of the strain inside the area of martensitic transformation, as well as direct correlations of local strain and temperature fields. Using this combined methodology, we can quantify the complex local interactions between released/absorbed latent heat and the extent of transformation. The characteristics of the phase fronts and evolution of martensitic volume fraction will be discussed, as well as evidence of a remarkable cyclic strain memory on the microscale.

Experimental Images of Phase Fronts
at Cycle 1 (top) and Cycle 25 (bottom).

IBM Research India

Internship Program 2010 Announcement for IBM Research - India

IBM Research – India invites applications for it's 2010 Summer Internship Program in Computer Science, Mathematical Sciences and Services Science, Management and Engineering at it's locations in New Delhi and Bangalore. We are seeking highly motivated graduate and undergraduate students, who are interested in experiencing an exciting summer of research.

The selected students will have the opportunity to work closely with an outstanding research team on challenging problems that range from leading-edge exploratory work to prototyping real-world systems and applications.

For more for details - P. D. Adams- email: pdadams@us.ibm.com

Friday, January 22, 2010

ClearView Healthcare Partners

ClearView Healthcare Partners is a premier boutique strategy consulting firm serving companies within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and diagnostics sectors of healthcare. We are seeking candidates for a summer internship who are pursuing an undergraduate degree in the life sciences and are looking to work in an entrepreneurial environment, interact with a dynamic group of coworkers, and develop a deep understanding of the biopharmaceutical industry. Although prior business or consulting experience is not necessary, all candidates should have a demonstrated interest in the biopharmaceutical industry. Candidates must be highly analytical in their approach to solving complex problems, should be proficient in both written and oral communication, and must enjoy working within a dynamic team environment. Interested candidates should look for our internship posting on the Brown Career Connection website.

Career Connection Cover Letter and Resume Submission Deadline: Friday, February 12

Job Title: Healthcare Strategy Consulting Intern

Website: http://www.clearviewhcp.com/

Contact:
Nick Marcantonio, Consultant | ClearView Healthcare Partners | One Newton Place - Suite 405, Newton, MA 02458
(o) 617.431.1223 | (f) 617.431-4343 | nick.marcantonio@clearviewhcp.com

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

University of Wisconsin Summer Undergraduate Research Experience

Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) and Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)Program* at the University of Wisconsin Madison, College of Engineering.

At this time we are soliciting assistance from you in identifying students at your institution who may have an interest in pursuing a graduate degree in engineering. We are particularly interested in identifying underrepresented candidates including first generation/low income, women, and students of color. All applicants should have completed at least their sophomore year, have a GPA of at least a 3.0 on a 4.0 scale, be U.S. citizens or permanent residents enrolled in an accredited college or university, and have a strong interest in a graduate degree in engineering or physical science.

The *Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) *and* Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)* is a ten week program running June 1 through August 7, 2010. Participants receive transportation to and from the program, a single room in a shared apartment, a small food plan, and a $5,000 stipend. Additional information along with a program application is available through the SURE/REU page at http://studentservices.engr.wisc.edu/diversity/sure/. The program recruits students from physical science backgrounds including engineering, physics, computer science, and chemistry.

Placements for the Summer of 2010 will begin January 15, consequently we encourage applications prior to that date (to better ensure students are placed in their specific research area of interest) or as soon as possible after that date and before February 15, 2010. Please note that not all students who apply will be invited to participate. All placements are subject to faculty approval and are often outside the control of the SURE/REU program staff.

CVS Caremark Internship

CVS Caremark Internship Program Site: http://cvscaremarkinternship.com

Position on the CVS.com team:
Learning Opportunity: Exposure to Software Development Methodology, Coding, Requirements/Analysis/Design, Unit/System/Integration Testing.

Student Criteria:
Preference: College Junior, College Senior or Graduate Student
Major(s): Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer/Electrical Engineering
Skills / Knowledge: CVS.com: Java/J2EE, SQL, Unix

Department Criteria:
Work Hours: 9am-6pm EST
Facility/Location: Woonsocket, RI, Store Support Center
Dates: Program will run June 1 - August 14, 2009

Zynga Tech Talk


Zynga is doing a Tech Talk on Tuesday, February 9th at the Career Development Center from 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. They're also interviewing on campus on March 2, 2010 for Software Engineers and Software Engineer Interns. They are very excited to recruit at Brown.

Zynga in collaboration with HiddenAgenda is putting on a game development competition! Students can win $25,000 and a trip to San Francisco. (click jpg image above for more details)