Friday, March 10, 2017

CPE Program email for March 10, 2017

Here are the CPE program announcements for March 10, 2017

Stay up-to-date with reminders of upcoming CPE activities:
Find us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/calpolycpe
Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/calpolycpe
Connect on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/calpolycpe/
CPE Program Announcements Archive: http://calpolycpe.blogspot.com/

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1. Job Opportunity
2. CPE Town Hall Meeting | March 14 | 11am | 20A Lobby
3. Upcoming SWE Events
4. EWB Announcements
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1. Job Opportunity
Junior Software Engineer , Northrop Grumman | Vandenberg AFB, CA.

The position requires a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, even an Electrical Engineering degree could work, with the right individual.  The person MUST be a U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain a security clearance.  Persons with dual citizenship probably won’t work.  If someone is graduating soon, we could bring them on as a PAID intern first, then convert them to full-time when they graduate this spring.

Candidates can read more or apply directly at the Northrop Grumman Corporation Career website: http://www.northropgrumman.com/Careers/JobSearch/Pages/default.aspx

Search for requisition number: 17004603

Questions? Please contact Gary L. Mead, Software Engineering Manager, Trainer Sustainment Lead
Northrop Grumman at Gary.Mead@ngc.com.

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2. CPE Town Hall Meeting | Tuesday, March 14 | 11am | 20A Lobby

*NOTE THE CHANGE IN DATE*Join Hugh Smith in the building 20A lobby for an update on the CPE Program. Share your input on the program. FREE Pizza for attendees!

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3. Upcoming SWE Events

Rabobank Focus Group 2

Building 14, Room 232B
Tuesday, March 14th 6:00pm-8:00pm


Rabobank wants to hear from students with internship experience. They are building a central coast internship program and would like your input. There will be food.

Facebook event: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/1765133423804505/

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Spring SWE Welcome Sign Ups
When // 10:00 am on Thursday, April 6 to 9:00 am on Friday, April 7
Where // Cal Poly Campus (i.e. ATL, Engineering Plaza, Residence Halls)

Welcome conditionally admitted female engineering students to Cal Poly, SLO and show them what it is like to live like a Mustang for a day! Participants will shadow engineering students. They will attend your classes, tour the campus, stay overnight in your residence hall, and find if Cal Poly is the right fit for them. Day and overnight host spots are available. Free food and t-shirt for all hosts! If you're interested, sign up
 here.

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4. EWB Announcements

Officer Board Nominations!
It's time to nominate officers for next year! Please nominate someone for an officer board position 
http://tinyurl.com/j3hqnrs . Please submit all nominations by midnight April 14th, 2016. Herehttp://tinyurl.com/ze6d45j, is a sheet detailing the officer board positions and responsibilities. Elections will take place April 19th.

EWB Journal
Hi EWBers,
EWB is doing something new! We will be releasing a year-end journal filled with content created by our members. The journal will be published as a PDF on our website and sent out in emails and newsletters. This is a great opportunity to show our families, communities, friends, and supporters what we’ve been up to!
Right now we’re early in the process of putting this together and need your help! 
Names! Suggest names for the journal http://tinyurl.com/gpchre8 . We want something catchy and descriptive of what we do. Be creative!
Design -  If you have made any cool art inspired by your time in EWB, we would love to showcase it in the journal! 
And of course, content! If you have something you’ve created and you want to share it in our EWB world, consider submitting it! If you have an idea but want to develop it more, come chat with Dan and Beth at tea time from 10-12pm on Fridays in the library. Draft/outline submittals will be due Friday of Spring quarter Week 4and final products will be due Friday of Week 7. We’d love to see essays, op-eds, photos, poems, drawings, academic articles, creative writing, anything that excites you as you work on it. 
Email Dan (hornettd@gmail.com) or Beth (bhotchkiss4@gmail.com) if you have any questions or thoughts. 
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Events
1. 
MonSustainability Task Force, Project Meetings
2. 
TueIMPACT Meeting
3. 
FriEWB Tea Time, Nicaragua Concert

Check out our google calendar 
http://tinyurl.com/zjsfno8 !

1.  Sustainability Task Force is a new group seeking to enhance Cal Poly's EWB Chapter. Through working on projects related to social, economic, cross-generational and environmental sustainability, we want to ensure that our chapter is fulfilling its purpose of "equipping leaders to solve some of the world's most pressing challenges". The STF meets at 6pm every Monday in Building 53, room 202 (India Room).

Project Meetings are every Monday at 7pm!
Here are the team room locations:

10-227 Nicaragua
33-287 Thailand
53-202 India
53-206 Malawi
53-213 Local Projects

2IMPACT meets every Tuesday at 6:30 pm at one of the Library 2nd floor fishbowls. Come by if you want to make a difference locally by volunteering in SLO!

3. EWB Tea Time is every Friday 10-12pm at the 2nd floor of the Library facing the front, near the bookshelves. Come chat and enjoy some tea with President Dan, VP Beth, and the occasional officer!

The Nicaragua team is putting on its annual benefit concert this Friday 6 pm at Building 8-123 (BRAE) to raise money for their water distribution project. There will be musical guests, food, and a LIVE auction. Make sure to bring extra cash or venmo for auction items and food!
Tickets are $5 presale, $7 at the door, You can pay cash or Venmo @EWBNicaragua
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Opportunities

Interested in studying abroad? Take a class with Professor Karen Bangs from Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (IME), in Bilbao, Spain during July of 2017. Karen will be teaching an Operations Management course (Quality Management, Lean Systems, Product & Service Design, Project Management and a few other topics). This course can fulfill a technical elective requirement for you (if you're ME with general & MfgE concentration, MATE, ENVE, BMED, GENE, COB-IT, MfgE). Contact Karen at 
krbangs@calpoly.edu, or stop by her office in 192-229. You can also visit Cal Poly International Programs on-line or at their office (http://abroad.calpoly.edu/ or 38-145). Check out the flyers http://tinyurl.com/gp8e5nw and http://tinyurl.com/gneaytu .

TRC Environmental Engineering/Remediation Intern App Due March 15th
Click 
http://tinyurl.com/goswqxh for the flyer!
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Friday, March 3, 2017

CPE Program email for March 3, 2017

Here are the CPE program announcements for March 3, 2017

Stay up-to-date with reminders of upcoming CPE activities:
Find us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/calpolycpe
Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/calpolycpe
Connect on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/calpolycpe/
CPE Program Announcements Archive: http://calpolycpe.blogspot.com/

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1. *RESCHEDULE* CPE Town Hall Meeting | Tuesday, March 7 | 11am | 20A Lobby
2. Upcoming SWE Events
3. Upcoming WISH Events
4. EWB Announcements
5. Robotics Club

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1. *RESCHEDULE* CPE Town Hall Meeting | Tuesday, March 14 | 11am | 20A Lobby

*NOTE THE CHANGE IN DATE*Join Hugh Smith in the building 20A lobby for an update on the CPE Program. Share your input on the program. FREE Pizza for attendees!

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2. Upcoming SWE Events

SWE Phone-a-Thon
When: Friday, February 24 and Friday, March 3 from 5 pm to 8 pm
Where: 192-106
It's college acceptance season! Come join SWE to congratulate conditionally admitted female Cal Poly engineering students and invite them to Cal Poly Open House and SWE Welcome in the spring. SWE Phone-a-thon will be held on Friday, February 24th and Friday, March, 3rd from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 pm. FIRESTONE will be served! If you are interested, please sign up http://tinyurl.com/hzzmrzv



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3. Upcoming WISH Events

1. Bonfire
Where: Grover Beach
When: Friday, 3/3 6-830pm
Come out for WISH's quarterly bonfire! Hang out and eat s'mores, meet up with your mentor or mentee, and mingle with other fantastic WISH members! 

2. Rabobank Focus Group 1
Where: 14-232B
When: Tuesday, 3/7 6-8pm
Rabobank wants to hear from students looking for internship opportunities. They are building a central coast internship program and would like your input. There will be food.
(Focus Group 2 will be on 3/14)

3. Drawable Circuits at Los Osos Middle School
Where: Los Osos Middle School
When: Thursday, 3/9 1-3pm
This will be the last community outreach event at a local middle school this quarter! Come help teach middle school students how to create drawable circuits on Thursday, March 9 from 1pm-3pm. This is a fun outreach event, but we need volunteers for this to happen! Learn how to make drawable circuits, and even make your own fancy light-up LED. Sign up here: https://goo.gl/forms/TJKraWVcf3GjPMb33

4. DIY Distress Party
Where: Kennedy Library Fishbowl 216N
When: Friday, 3/10 3-5pm
Join WISH and de-stress before finals! Bring any DIY project you want to work on! We will be crafting our stress away.

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4. EWB Announcements

Announcements

Hi EWBers,
EWB is doing something new! We will be releasing a year-end journal filled with content created by our members. The journal will be published as a PDF on our website and sent out in emails and newsletters. This is a great opportunity to show our families, communities, friends, and supporters what we’ve been up to!
Right now we’re early in the process of putting this together and need your help! 
Names! Suggest names for the journal http://tinyurl.com/gpchre8 . We want something catchy and descriptive of what we do. Be creative!
Design -  If you have made any cool art inspired by your time in EWB, we would love to showcase it in the journal! 
And of course, content! If you have something you’ve created and you want to share it in our EWB world, consider submitting it! If you have an idea but want to develop it more, come chat with Dan and Beth at tea time from 10-12pm on Fridays in the library. Draft/outline submittals will be due Friday of Spring quarter Week 4and final products will be due Friday of Week 7. We’d love to see essays, op-eds, photos, poems, drawings, academic articles, creative writing, anything that excites you as you work on it. 
Email Dan (hornettd@gmail.com) or Beth (bhotchkiss4@gmail.com) if you have any questions or thoughts. 
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Events
1. 
Mon- Sustainability Task Force, Project Meetings
2. 
Tue- IMPACT Meeting
3. 
Wed- General Meeting
4. 
Fri- EWB Tea Time
5. Next Fri
Nicaragua Concert- Details coming soon...

Check out our google calendar 
http://tinyurl.com/huc643j !

1.  Sustainability Task Force is a new group seeking to enhance Cal Poly's EWB Chapter. Through working on projects related to social, economic, cross-generational and environmental sustainability, we want to ensure that our chapter is fulfilling its purpose of "equipping leaders to solve some of the world's most pressing challenges". The STF meets at 6pm every Monday in Building 53, room 202 (India Room).

Project Meetings are every Monday at 7pm!
Here are the team room locations:

10-227 Nicaragua
33-287 Thailand
53-202 India
53-206 Malawi
53-213 Local Projects

2IMPACT meets every Tuesday at 6:30 pm at one of the Library 2nd floor fishbowls. Come by if you want to make a difference locally by volunteering in SLO!

3. General Meeting this Wednesday at 7:10pm in 53-213 (Local Projects Room). Come by for some food (not pizza ;) ) and a coffee talk about intercultural training and communication.

4. EWB Tea Time is every Friday 10-12pm at the 2nd floor of the Library facing the front, near the bookshelves. Come chat and enjoy some tea with President Dan, VP Beth, and the occasional officer!
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Opportunities

Interested in studying abroad? Take a class with Professor Karen Bangs from Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (IME), in Bilbao, Spain during July of 2017. Karen will be teaching an Operations Management course (Quality Management, Lean Systems, Product & Service Design, Project Management and a few other topics). This course can fulfill a technical elective requirement for you (if you're ME with general & MfgE concentration, MATE, ENVE, BMED, GENE, COB-IT, MfgE). Contact Karen at 
krbangs@calpoly.edu, or stop by her office in 192-229. You can also visit Cal Poly International Programs on-line or at their office (http://abroad.calpoly.edu/ or 38-145). Check out the flyers http://tinyurl.com/gp8e5nw and http://tinyurl.com/gneaytu .

The University of Colorado Boulder's Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities is hosting its annual Colorado Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Symposium in beautiful Boulder this March 7-8, 2017. Registration is FREE. Rumor has it we've got a bunch of Cal Poly grads in Boulder who's couch you can crash on :). Email Katie Chambers (Katherine.G.Chambers@colorado.edu) or check out their website (http://www.colorado.edu/washsymposium/) for more details if you're interested.

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5. Robotics Club

Robotics club is looking for CPE students interested in computer vision and machine learning to take part in an autonomous foosball table. The mechanical side has been completed so the majority of the work is in the computer vision software. Currently the table plays at a beginner level and tracks the ball's location but there is much room for improvement. 

Contact Richard Yang (riyang@calpoly.edu) if you are interested