Here are the CPE program
announcements for November 2nd, 2018
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1.
Volunteers
for VEX IQ Robotics Workshop
2.
The
Future of Space | Discussion with Tory Bruno and Victor Glover
3.
Diversity Advisory Committee
Board (DCAB) Lean-In Circle
4.
WISH
Upcoming Activities & Events
5.
Engineers
without Borders (EWB) Upcoming Activities
6.
Color
Coded General Meetings
7.
CPUX
Event: Accessibility and Inclusion Part 2 - Web Accessibility and the Law
8.
Internet
of Things Hackathon at CCI
9.
Pitch2Programmers
Event
10.
DataPalooza’s
Machine Learning Music Festival Lab
11.
STARTUP
Weekend
12.
Interdisciplinary Student Winter Project on Biomimicry
13.
Senior
Project Ideas
14.
Job
Opportunities
15.
Tutoring Services via Engineering Advising
Center
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1. Volunteers for VEX IQ
Robotics Workshop
When: November 3, 2018
Where: ATL and Bonderson
This year the 1st annual VEX IQ Robotics Workshop for the Central Coast will be hosted by Cal Poly Society of Women Engineers. With the Central Coast's growth of competing VEX IQ teams (ages 8-14), this workshop will provide students an opportunity to learn basic engineering concepts, build and program their robots with Cal Poly students as mentors, and obtain and practice soft skills such as presentation and documentation.
This event is an excellent
opportunity to get involved in Robotics Outreach, gain volunteer experience for
the VEX Robotics Competition and VEX Volunteer Team, and mentor elementary and
middle school VEX teams in this year’s IQ game “Next Level”. Game video: https://youtu.be/IJML1_JNCLI.
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2. The Future of Space |
Discussion with Tory Bruno and Victor Glover
On Friday November 9
at 10am in the ATL, the College of Engineering will welcome back two alumni on
the forefront of space exploration. Join us for a conversation with Tory Bruno,
President and CEO of United Launch Alliance, and Victor Glover, NASA Astronaut,
for a conversation on the future of space travel.
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3. Diversity Committee
Advisory Board (DCAB) Lean-In Circle
When: November 6th, 6:00pm
- 7:00pm
Where: 14-250
The Diversity Advisory
Committee Board (DCAB) is a cohort of diversity representatives from various
professional engineering organizations. Some of these clubs include: WISH, SWE,
IEEE, NSBE, SHPE, Color Coded and SCE. If you identify as an underrepresented
minority, we would like to invite you to a special lean-in circle with our
community of organizations. Our topic will focus on allyship within our
respective majors, identities, and backgrounds.
If you have any questions
about this lean-in circle please contact libuna@calpoly.edu. We hope to see you
there!
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4. WISH Upcoming
Activities & Events
WISH Dance Suit Project
This year WISH will be
continuing to work on our Dance Suit Project. This project entails creating a
dance outfit with embedded LED lights. We are going to then code the LED lights
to light up at different times and colors to music and end the project with a
dance performance.
We will be using Arduinos and Raspberry Pis. There is no experience necessary! All levels of coding and hardware experiences are welcome.
If you are interested please fill out this form. If you have any questions please feel free to contact Halina at htracey@calpoly.edu or Emily at Emily.anna.oneal@gmail.com.
We will be using Arduinos and Raspberry Pis. There is no experience necessary! All levels of coding and hardware experiences are welcome.
If you are interested please fill out this form. If you have any questions please feel free to contact Halina at htracey@calpoly.edu or Emily at Emily.anna.oneal@gmail.com.
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WISH Hangout Hours
When November 7th, 4:00pm
- 7:00pm
Where: Library Fishbowl
216L
Come hangout and chill
with WISH during the day! Feel free to bring your homework, your lunch, your
friends, or simply yourself!
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General Meeting #2
When: November 13th,
11:00am - 12:00pm
Where: 26-104 (Graphic
Arts Building)
Come join WISH's second
general meeting of the quarter to learn about all of the upcoming events for
the rest of the quarter and more!
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WISH Red Tag Interest Form
Interested in laser
cutting? Like the color red and/or tags? Sign up here to come cut your red tag with WISH Tech Team so we can build
better robots and other sick projects!
Feel free to email
htracey@calpoly.edu with any questions!
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5. Engineers without
Borders (EWB) Upcoming Activities
Critical Global Engagement Club: Sustainability Task Force (STF) is
transitioning into Critical Global Engagement (CGE) Club. CGE Club is open to
everyone and is a space to critically examine ethical global engagement and
development and how we fit into a global framework. We will host workshops,
activities, and discussion and work pm projects to improve the socioeconomic,
cross-generational, and environmental sustainability of EWB. This week we will
be discussing ethical photography and challenging stereotypical media
representations of foreign aid. Join us Mondays 6:00-7:00 pm in building 38
room 220!
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Project Meetings | Every
Monday
Local Projects, Nicaragua,
and Malawi
7pm-9pm
Thailand and Fiji
8pm-10pm
Here are the team room
locations:
Local Projects: 38-204
Nicaragua: 38-220
Malawi: 38-225
Thailand: 38-219
Fiji: 38-121
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Fundraisers:
-Team Malawi is hosting a
fundraiser at Blaze on November 10th from 5pm-10pm.
-Team Nicaragua is hosting
a trivia night fundraiser on Thursday, November 15th at Woodstock’s.
Please come out to support
the teams!
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IMPACT: IMPACT, Engineers
Without Borders’ volunteering team, works with nonprofits across SLO County to
carry on the tradition of thinking globally and acting locally. This
quarter we will be researching ways to improve our annual EWB IMPACT Weekend
that is scheduled for the end of winter quarter. Meetings are held Mondays
10:00-11:00 am in the library fishbowl 216R (second floor patio).
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Tea Time is a time to chat
with the president and vice president about anything and everything. It’s
basically open office hours and we’d love to see you! It’s every Friday
11am-12pm. We will be on the 2nd floor of the library at a table behind
Julien’s in the Café Lounge. Look for our EWB shirts/boxes of tea!
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6. Color Coded General
Meetings
When: Thursdays, 11am-12pm
Where: 14-232B
If you’re a person of
color in tech (or want to support POC in tech), join Color Coded! Our mission
is to promote the academic and professional success of minorities in tech. We
offer an open space for dialogue regarding race and computing, as well as mock
interviewing / resources for opportunities in the industry.
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7. CPUX Event: Accessibility
and Inclusion Part 2 - Web Accessibility and the Law
When: 11/5, 6-7pm
Where: TBA
What is WCAG? What is the
ADA? What is the WAI? Why are web accessibility lawsuits on the rise? Learn
more about the documents that explain how to make web content more accessible
to people with disabilities (aka how to not get sued for not being ADA
compliant).
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8. Internet of Things
Hackathon at CCI
When: Saturday, November 3rd
- Sunday, November 4th
Where: Camp San Luis
Obispo
California Cybersecurity
Institute is holding multiple hackathon events this Saturday and Sunday
November 3rd and 4th. All students are welcome to
participate for one or both days.
To learn more about the
event, please contact Danielle Borrelli at dborrell@calpoly.edu, or see the event flyer here: https://tinyurl.com/y8wcwgxn
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9. Pitch2Programmers Event
When: November 8th
and November 15th, 11am – 12pm
Where: 14-249
Attention CPE Seniors, you
are invited to the Pitch2Programmers Event which will have information on
senior project ideas. On November 8th, we will provide general
logistics of senior projects for Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and
Software Engineering students who will be enrolling in a senior project this
Winter. The remainder of November 8th and all of November 15th
will be dedicated to project pitches from faculty and external partners.
More details will come as
the event approaches.
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10. DataPalooza’s
Machine Learning Music Festival Lab
When: November 6th
Time: 10am – 2pm
Where: Advanced
Technology Lab (ATL)
If you’re interested
in machine learning and IoT development, DataPalooza is offering a fun and
informative workshop on campus that will challenge students to use facial
recognition technology to maximize crowd enjoyment at a fictional music
festival.
Sign up now for the
4-hour workshop, which will be held Nov. 6 at the Advanced Technology Lab (ATL)
from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.
DataPalooza’s
Machine Learning Music Festival Lab offers students with no machine learning
experience an opportunity to acquire hands-on experience in a workshop hosted
by AWS and Intel experts. During the workshop, students will act as data
scientists working for a bold new startup hoping to provide a new experience
for EDM concertgoers. Students will leverage machine learning and internet of
things to devise an app that provides real time insights into the crowd
response at different stages, enabling fans to find stages with the best
performances and allowing artists to monitor crowd response to adjust their
setlist, if needed.
You must have an AWS
account in order to participate. Sign up at https://aws.amazon.com/ before the
workshop so that you are ready to go when it begins! (Please note that on the day of the workshop,
devices will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis and that your
registration does not guarantee a spot in the workshop).
Please e-mail
datapalooza@majorleaguehacking.com if you have any questions about the
workshop.
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11. STARTUP Weekend
When: Friday, November 9th
– Sunday, November 11th
Where: Advanced Technology
Lab (ATL)
Startup Weekend is a 54-hour
long event in which developers, designers, and innovators meet for the first
time and develop a business over the weekend. You will have the opportunity to
pitch your idea on Friday night, everyone will vote, and the best ideas will be
chosen and teams formed around them. You and your team will work non-stop
throughout the weekend and will present on Sunday night in front of a panel of
entrepreneurs and investors. Come check it out and possibly start a business of
your own! You do NOT need to have any specific skills, come as you are and
learn on the fly.
Here’s what's included in
the price of the ticket:
·
Opportunity
to build a company and your skills
·
Meals
for the Entire Weekend
·
Access
to Keynote Speakers:
-Kyle
Weins - CEO of iFixit
-Chip Besse - Investor and
Entrepreneur
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Expand
your innovation toolbox with workshops on:
-Business Model Canvas
-Customer Development
-Pitching YOUR company and YOURSELF
·
Network
with entrepreneurs in SLO
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12.
Interdisciplinary Student Winter Project on Biomimicry.
Are you interested in
product design, engineering and development? Or biology, business applications
or sustainability? Consider working on an interdisciplinary student winter project on biomimicry. Biomimicry
is solving human problems using solutions found in nature. Students must
consider social, environmental and profitability issues as they design a product that will solve a climate
challenge.
The project works best if
student team members are from different colleges. They really appreciate the
opportunity to work with and learn from students in other fields. Students can
receive senior project credit, technical elective or regular elective credit.
For more information, see
the flyer at https://tinyurl.com/yc7vc8vm or contact Professor Norm Borin at
nborin@calpoly.edu.
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13. Senior Project Ideas
Start up
“We are a group of
CS and BUS students looking for students interested in joining our senior
project team to help build a startup. We are looking at a broad range of
problems in society and we are using AR/VR technology to solve them. If you’re
interested in joining our team or have any questions email Erika Kaplan at emkaplan@calpoly.edu.”
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App Development
“A fellow Cal Poly
student and I are looking for a computer science major who would be interested
in working with us on our senior project (hopefully it could count as your
senior project as well!). We are in need of someone who can help assist us in
developing an app that would benefit Cal Poly students. Therefore, experience
in app development and/or coding would be essential for this project. Please
email danicaschutt@yahoo.com or jakzolina@gmail.com if this is something
you are interested in doing! Looking forward to working with one of you!”
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Prof. Ventura is
looking for students to work on a public health-related augmented reality
project this quarter. The project will likely involve point-and-click
design rather than custom software development. A quick turnaround is
needed and project funds are available to provide stipends. Interested
students with all levels of experience are encouraged to contact Prof. Ventura
at jventu09@calpoly.edu to learn more.
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Development of a User
Interface for an Ultrasonic Oxide Thickness Measuring System
Ultrasonic devices can be
used to measure the internal oxide thickness of boiler tubes. Intertek has been
using these systems since the early 2000’s, but the technology is a bit
outdated and is not user friendly. The system is made of an ultrasonic pulser,
receiver, and A/D signal digitizer in one box, powered and connected by USB to
a laptop. The pulser shoots a sound wave into the tube from the outside, and
every time it hits an interface (air‐to‐metal, metal‐to‐oxide, oxide‐to‐air),
the instrument detects a reflection and corresponding peaks in the sound
profile produced by the receiver and signal digitizer. From previous
experiments Intertek knows the speed of sound in the various materials found in
boiler tubes, as well as in the oxide, and by measuring the distance between
peaks, they can accurately measure the oxide thickness. From this thickness, as
well as how long the tube has been in service, and a few other parameters,
Intertek engineers can determine the average tube temperature, and remaining
useful life. Intertek has found a replacement for the pulser/receiver box
manufactured by TECLAB, which already interfaces with a laptop, but the project
that they would like to propose is for MATE and Software Engineering students
to develop the software that Intertek would use to perform their work. It would
take the input from the TECLAB device, and do everything needed by the
engineers: automatically detect the correct peaks and measure the wall
thickness and oxide thickness, save the data in a convenient way, and keep
track of points in a grid format (typically data will be taken in say 30 rows,
banks 1‐12). Other functionality may be needed as well.
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Prof. Danowitz is looking
for research students:
Are you looking for
research opportunities? Do you need a senior project, Master's project, or just
some independent study units? Prof. Danowitz is looking for students! He has
several interesting projects in the area of radio tomography, hardware
security, and IoT security. If you think you might be interested, please
contact Prof. D. directly at adanowit@calpoly.edu
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14. Job Opportunities
"I’m looking
for IOS developers to create a project with me, hopefully 3-4 of
us including myself.
The company internal
structure we’ll be working to create is a combination of Patagonia, the early
days of Pixar and Ricardo Semlar’s Semco. It’s heavily designed
around productivity, creativity, happiness, low stress and a work
life balance better than anywhere else.
Swift/Xcode experience
is not an absolute necessity but it will help greatly, if you
are a quality programmer and are willing to learn a new language and
development environment while we create the project together that is fine. I am
more interested in highly independent, intrinsically
motivated individuals, with a specific knack and passion for
learning new things; individuals who have a love for
design and quality products and who have distaste for Dark
Pattern UX design.
If you are interested in
these ideas and want to work on an exciting project that almost every person on
the Internet will use, please reach out to me. I’ll be happy to explain
the project and answer any other questions you may have.
Aloha,
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makeSEA Software
Developer/Engineering
makeSEA is a digital asset
management and intellectual property tracking platform with eCommerce
capabilities that is working to integrate with numerous technologies and
external systems. We are seeking swift, creative and motivated developers to
help with innovation and integration with these technologies. This job can be a
pathway to lucrative full-time software engineering position and more. The
deadline is 11/23.
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NSA is coming to
California!
Networking Evenings: An
invitation-only event for promising students to chat first-hand with National
Security Agency (NSA) employees. Learn about the mission, ask your most
pressing questions, and even score an interview for the following day! All
majors welcome to apply - focus is on STEM, data analysis, foreign language
analysis, and business.
Monday, November 12 -
Orange County, CA
Thursday, November 15 -
Silicon Valley, CA
Interview Days: NSA Hiring
Managers are venturing from D.C. to California to interview the West Coast’s
brightest! On-site interviews will be held for Computer Science, Engineering,
Foreign Language (Chinese, Korean, Russian, Arabic, Farsi), and Business
opportunities. Upon a successful interview, you may even walk away with
conditional job offer from NSA!
Tuesday, November 13 -
Orange County, CA
Friday, November 16 -
Silicon Valley, CA
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15. Tutoring
Services via Engineering Advising Center
Need tutoring in your classes? Check out the College of Engineering
tutoring schedule for this quarter at the link below. Tutoring is on walk-in
basis. No appointment needed.
Tutoring Schedule: https://eadvise.calpoly.edu/tutoring/
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