CPE Program email for September 18, 2017

Here are the CPE program announcements for September 18, 2017

Stay up-to-date with reminders of upcoming CPE activities:
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1. CPE Office STILL Needs Mentors for Fall 2017
2. Career Services Activities
3. Upcoming CPEs Activities
4. Upcoming EWB Activities
5. Upcoming WISH Activities
6. ESC Corp Panel/Networking Session Survey
7. Job Opportunity in the EE Department
8. Job Opening at Tapestry
9. 2018 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Application
10. Orbital Info Session

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1. CPE Office STILL Needs Mentors for Fall 2017
The CPE Office is in the process of recruiting CPE Mentors for this coming Fall 2017. We are looking for 40 - 45 motivated students to mentor the incoming freshmen (as part of their CPE100 course) during the 2017 fall quarter.  We've gotten positive feedback from students who have participated in the past. And all you need in order to be a successful mentor is a desire to have fun and help others.
If you are interested please add your name to the Mentor list found at:
https://cpe.calpoly.edu/student-mentoring/cpe-mentor-information/

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Career Services Activities

REGISTER NOW for the Cal Poly Fall Career Fair and Computing Career Fair Career Fair and Upcoming
For more information on all our programs and services, please visit: https://careerservices.calpoly.edu/recruit-here/connect-cal-poly/career-fairs

Computing Career Fair (for CSC/CPE/SE majors)
When: Tuesday, September 26 – 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Location: Madonna Inn Expo Center located at 100 Madonna Road in San Luis Obispo (just 3 miles from campus; free transportation provided).

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2. Fall Career Fair
When: Wednesday & Thursday, September 27 & 28 – Open Forum from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Location: Recreation Center Gyms (Bldg. 43)
Please note: See attached list of companies/positions for this career fair. The list is not up-to-date as more companies are registering each day. See MustangJOBS/Handshake for the most up-to-date list.

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Professional Clothing Closet (flyer link below)
When: Friday, September 22, 2017 – 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Time: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Location: Building 124 (located near the Stadium)

Are you worried about being able to afford new interview clothes? To support you in dressing for success, Career Services has collected new and gently used professional clothing. The Career Services Clothing Closet event provides any Cal Poly student with free, high-quality work clothes to create a memorable first impression at career fairs and interviews. All students welcome; first come, first served.

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Change of Major Workshop

If you are interested in changing your major into or within a major in the College of Engineering, it is highly recommended that you attend a change of major workshop.
The Engineering Change of Major Workshop (offered 4 times during Fall quarter; dates below) will include: an overview of each of the 13 undergraduate majors in the College of Engineering, provide additional career exploration resources, summarize change of major requirements by major and will conclude with a question and answer session with the College of Engineering academic adviser and career counselor.

Fall Quarter Dates for Engineering Change of Major Workshop (flyer link below)
Wednesday, October 4 – 5:10 to 6:30 p.m. at Sierra Madre Community Center (Bldg. 113). Please note: you do not need to live in Sierra Madre to attend. Pizza provided!
Friday, October 13 – 1:10 to 2:30 p.m. at Career Services (Bldg. 124, Room 117)
Friday, October 27 – 11:10 to 12:30 p.m. at Career Services (Bldg. 124, Room 117)
Wednesday, November 8 – 3:10 to 4:30 p.m. at Career Services (Bldg. 124, Room 117)

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3. Upcoming CPEs Activities

CPEs First General Meeting:
Location: 180-112
Time: Thursday, 9/21 @ 6PM
Come visit CPEs for our first general meeting! We will be discussing upcoming events for the club as well as going into depth as to what our club plans to accomplish throughout the year

Ice Cream Social / Resume Workshop:
Location: 20-145
Time: Sunday, 9/24
Come hang out with CPEs as we indulge in ice cream and prepare for the upcoming career fair. We will be discussing what making a successful resume and how to tailor your resume to best suit you. In addition to this, we will be eating ice cream and drinking root beer floats.

GE Resume Workshop:
Location: TBD
Time: Monday, 9/25 @ 6PM
Come visit CPEs for our event with GE Digital. This will be an excellent opportunity to have your resume reviewed and to network with people within the industry.

Microsoft Workshop:
Location: TBD
Time: Monday, 9/27 @ 6PM
Come visit CPEs for our event with Microsoft. The company will be visiting us to come teach the club about React, a web development framework. This is an all skill-levels event!

CPEs BBQ:
Location: De Vaul Park
Time: Sunday 9/30
Hungry? Come to De Vaul Park to hang out with CPEs! This is a purely social event in which we will be grilling up some food for you guys. Come hang out with us!

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4. Upcoming EWB Activities

Welcome back, we hope everyone had a fantastic summer! Here's what's coming up for EWB:

We will be having the first general project meeting this Wednesday, September 20. See the attachment below for more information!

Project meetings will resume as normal starting next week (9/25)
1.  Monday- Sustainability Task Force, Crash Course, Project Team Meetings
2.  Tuesday- IMPACT

1.  Sustainability Task Force is a 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 10, room 227 (Crash Course Room).

Introducing the new EWB Crash Course: designed for new members who want to learn about EWB and which teams and positions work best for them! The EWB Crash Course is optional and will be held during project team meetings from 7-9pm on Mondays for the first 6 weeks of this quarter. Learn more this Wednesday or next Monday at the project meetings.

Project Meetings will be every Monday from 7-9pm!
Everyone should meet at 7pm in the plaza to the right of building 10 (the Agriculture building)

Here are the team room locations:
EWB Crash Course: 10-227
Fiji: 10-225
Local Projects: 33-289
Thailand: 33-287
Nicaragua: 10-214
Malawi: 38-227

2.  IMPACT meets every Tuesday from 11am to 12pm in one of the Library 2nd floor fishbowls. Come by if you want to make a difference locally by volunteering in SLO!

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5. Upcoming WISH Activities

Welcome new Mustangs! And for everyone who is returning from a hopefully fantastic summer: welcome back!  It's a new school year, and fall quarter is always the most fun and hectic with new faces around campus and fun events to attend!

The WISH Weekly is intended to keep you up-to-date and organized with the happenings of WISH (meetings, socials, opportunities, etc.) in one compact email. Keep reading to check out some events coming up soon!

Fall Quarter
General Meeting
Tuesday, 9/19 - 11:00am-12pm
Building 14, Room 249

Meet new & old members and listen to what we have in store for this quarter. Pizza will be provided!

Find a Mentor Event!
Saturday, 9/23
11:30am-1:30pm
Advanced Technology Lab (ATL) - Building 7
Come out to our event and meet some new WISH members and find your potential mentor! This will be a chance for you to meet new students and get to know others better. Come out for great food and even greater people. Don’t forget to RSVP on the Facebook Event so we can account for how much food we should order! Can’t wait to see you all there!

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6. ESC Corp Panel/Networking Session Survey

Missed the career fair? Still on the hunt for that job or internship? ESC is hosting a corporate panel followed by a networking session geared for engineering upperclassmen in mid November. In order to accommodate all majors, we'd love to hear from you. Below is a quick 5 question survey to help ensure the event meets the needs of all our engineering students here at Cal Poly.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1UwzWSXeGArWRneFlwg2dZpppHw6CKJg-gJox1yAs-Gg/edit

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7. Job Opportunity in the EE Department

#981711 Electrical and Computer Engineering - Electronic & Computer Lab Support Assistant

Electrical Engineering announces job opportunities for Undergrads and Graduate students who meet the qualifications to work as lecture/lab assistants and graders in a variety of classes.

Undergraduate students apply as Instructional Student Assistants (ISA). An ISA will provide tutoring, grading, or instruction to other CSU students for 50% or more of their work hours in a given appointment in a given academic department or equivalent administrative unit over the course of an academic term. In this appointment, the incumbent will provide student support in labs, grading, test proctoring, and overall classroom support for Electrical Engineering lectures and labs. Please see below for faculty looking for graders/lab assistants who fulfill these criteria.

The minimum qualification for an Instructional Student Assistant is admission or registration as a CSU student as well as meeting the requested criteria for the class for which you are providing support. Please check with the jobs listed below for additional minimum qualifications as specified by each Professor. The University reserves the sole discretion to override the minimum qualifications.

To apply for these positions please contact the Professor associated with the classes on the attached list (list updated periodically). Once the Professor approves acceptance of your application the professor will contact the Administrative Analyst for the Electrical Engineering Department requesting completion of the application procedure. The applicant also contacts the Department Administrative Analyst with their name and employee ID for the completion of the application. Supervisory directions will come directly from the Professor of the class.

The hiring criteria are dependent on the applicants qualifications and successful interview with the professor. Hours to work will not exceed 20 hours per week. The rate of pay is $12.50 per hour for Undergrads and $14.00 per hour for Graduate Students.

California Polytechnic State University is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to compliance with all applicable laws providing equal employment opportunities.

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8. Job Opening at Tapestry

Tapestry Solutions, a local Boeing subsidiary, is growing and still has many openings for part-time software developers and full-time software engineers for immediate hire right here in SLO! Our part-time positions can work around your school schedule and allow full-time hours during quarter breaks and summer.

At our San Luis Obispo office, we focus on custom software development for command and control, planning, and logistics. Typical projects include planning loads for cargo ships, calculating the centers of gravity and balance for aircraft, and planning transportation schedules. Typical technologies include Java web apps, Spring, JavaScript, and ActionScript. The majority of our work in the SLO office is for United States Department of Defense customers.

If interested in these or other positions (e.g., testing, IT, management) , please visit http://www.tapestrysolutions.com/, select Careers, select Job Search, and search for posting location “San Luis Obispo – CA.” For part-time, look for Software Developer I and for full-time, look for Software Engineer I (or II or III).

If you would like to learn more, come see us at the Computing Career Fair on the evening of September 26 or at the Fall Career Fair during the day on September 27.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Justin Crawfors (jcrawford@tapestrysolutions.com) or visit the Tapestry web site (http://www.tapestrysolutions.com/).

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9. 2018 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Application

I hope that you had a great summer and are enjoying the beginning of the new school year! This is a friendly reminder that the 2018 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Initial Application deadline of September 29, 2017 is fast approaching. We would be delighted if you could please share this information with your networks and encourage eligible students to apply, if you have not done so already.

The Lemelson-MIT Student Prize is a national invention competition that recognizes individual graduate students who have tested prototypes of two or more inventions and teams of undergraduate students with a tested prototype of one invention.

The competition is open to full-time, degree-seeking students (as of the spring semester of 2018) with technology-based inventions in healthcare, food/water and agriculture, transportation, and consumer devices. Inventions are not limited to class projects or thesis work, and any side/personal projects could also be considered. Patents are encouraged but not required. In each of the four categories, graduate students are awarded $15,000 and undergraduate teams are awarded $10,000.

Please help spread the word and encourage inventive students to apply by either forwarding this message or referring a student directly to me, and I would be happy to follow up. The Initial Application is due by Friday, September 29, 2017 and complete details about the application process are available here: http://lemelson.mit.edu/sites/default/files/content/documents/awards/SP_InfoPacket_2018.pdf

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10. Upcoming Orbital ATK Events

Orbital ATK Career Seminar – September 26
September 26th | 7:10 pm — 8:00 pm
Building 2, Room 213. Food is provided.

Join us at this career seminar to learn about:
- Our Flight Systems, Defense Systems, and Space Systems Groups.
- Summer internship and full-time engineering opportunities.
- Our hiring process and how to get involved.

They will be raffling off a DIGILENT Basys 3 Artix – 7 FPGA Trainer Board. Must be present to win. Feel free to bring your RESUME and meet our industry alumni and leaders. Additionally, there will be a Vilros Raspberry Pi 3 Microcontrollers raffle during the Fall 2017 Career Fair Day 1 on September 26th.

Orbital ATK
Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering Senior Projects
Friday, September 29th | 10:00 am — 12:00 pm

At the Electrical Engineering Department Lobby Orbital ATK is working with the Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering departments to provide corporate sponsorship and mentorship for senior projects. Additionally, we will be raffling off a Vilros Raspberry Pi 3 Microcontroller. Must be present to win. Feel free to bring your RESUME.