Still Many More Jobs for CSE Majors Than Graduates

From Falling Behind article in Inside Higher Ed.
The growing number of jobs in the computing field far outpaces how many students are earning bachelor’s degrees in computer science and similar fields, according to a lengthy new report from the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. The continued demand for computer science programs at colleges and universities has strained faculty workloads, especially as more and more students enroll. Of those students, few are women or from underrepresented minority groups, and that’s not likely to change unless academe begins targeting those populations.
These are the takeaways from the report -- and the national academies have suggestions, though they stressed some solutions will vary by institution. “Strains on educational institutions are significant,” the report reads. “There is a growing sense of an impending crisis in many universities.” The academies’ recommendations are as follows:
  • Colleges and universities should consider funneling more resources into their computer science departments to address professors' increasing workload. Administrators should be working with their departments to develop new goals on faculty and staff retention and seriously mull increasing those numbers and the academic rank of those professors.
  • It’s temping for institutions to enforce caps on computer course or major enrollment -- but that decision should be weighed carefully.
  • Computer science courses should be taught creatively with a heavy focus on technology for “high-quality instruction.”
  • Institutions should try to increase interest in computer science programs among their students -- both those people who intend to major in it and not, and be deliberate in recruiting and keeping more women and black, Hispanic, Latino, American Indian and Alaska Native students.
  • Partnerships should be developed among colleges and universities and industry professionals. This could also encourage certain companies to provide research funding.
  • Because computer scientists are so in demand, and public institutions train them, states should be providing more money to help boost the work force in this area.
  • Education on the importance of computer science should begin in kindergarten through secondary school.
  • Trends in undergraduate enrollment should be tracked better, and government at all levels should be working better with colleges to understand these data and how they can be used to influence decisions on academic programs.
We are part of the trend. Undergraduate enrollment in this department is now at 921, up from around 300 5-or-so years ago. You can also read Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t), in the NY Times, which presents similar data.

U.S. Department of Energy LIVE Virtual Career Fair!

I wanted to share with you and your students our upcoming diversity virtual career fair taking place on Nov. 28th from 12 noon – 4:00 pm EST. Please see details below. Are you a student seeking real-world experience? Do you want to gain new skills, network with professionals, and experience life at a federal laboratory? Pre-register for the Laboratory Internships Virtual Event today! L.I.V.E is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science! The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science is a vital agency for science and technology in the United States. DOE Office of Science is the largest supporter of research in the physical sciences and energy nationally, and manages ten national laboratories. The DOE laboratory system is the most comprehensive research system of its kind in the world! DOE Office of Science is recruiting STEM students now! Internships with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will be available for the following disciplines:
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Booths will include information about the internship programs available, as well as our featured national laboratory, Oak Ridge National Lab, the largest science and energy lab in the DOE system! Check out what programs are available at Oak Ridge National Lab, and ORISE. This diversity focused event will take place at a computer or mobile device near you. Get excited about your career in STEM! Register today! Annette Hilton Communications Specialist ORISE 865-576-0056 (office) live@orau.org

University Housing Technology Services Student Employee

Duties
  • Maintain and update computers across various University Housing offices on campus
  • Troubleshoot and resolve client’s various computer related issues
  • Install new hardware and software as needed
  • Check in and out various IT equipment to Housing Staff
  • Check in and out of temporary building access cards to Housing Staff
  • Troubleshoot student and staff access control issues
  • Update various software and hardware as needed
  • Answer phones as needed
  • Duties as assigned
Reports to Director of University Housing Technology Services Compensation $11+/hour Contact Information Please email resume and Spring 2018 class schedule to: Randy Borawski Director Technology Services University Housing 1520 Devine Street | Columbia, SC 29208 (p) 803-777-5509 borandy@mailbox.sc.edu

Operations Manager at USC

This position will support the technical needs of all DLSS units to including the administration and support of DLSS databases as well as functioning as the department’s Webmaster and social media administrator. Additionally the position will assist faculty in the DLSS Course Production Suites with various aspects of online course production including lecture capture, creation of transcriptions and closed captioning and the editing and posting of lecture videos. Bachelor’s degree and 1 year computer operations or related experience, or associate’s degree and 3 years experience, or equivalency. Experience in database administration and web design. Experience in developing IT based solutions for an organization responsible for planning, marketing and initiating programs and services. Ability to communicate with faculty and work with limited supervision. Ability to exercise judgment and discretion in applying policies and procedures, evaluating situations and responding appropriately. Normal office hours and occasional work other than normal work times is required. Details Here

Data Incubator Data Science Fellowship

I would be extremely grateful if you could forward this opportunity on to masters, PhDs, and postdocs in your department or to post this on your announcement board. Program: The Data Incubator is an intensive 8 week fellowship that prepares masters students, PhDs, and postdocs in STEM and social science fields seeking industry careers as data scientists. The program is free for Fellows and supported by sponsorships from hundreds of employers across multiple industries. In response to the overwhelming interest in our earlier sessions, we will be holding another fellowship. Who Should Apply: Anyone who has already obtained a masters or PhD degree or who is within one year of graduating with a masters or PhD is welcome to apply. Applications from international students are welcome. Everyone else is encouraged to sign-up for a future session. Locations: In addition to the below in-person locations, we will have a remote online session:
  • New York City
  • San Francisco Bay Area
  • Seattle
  • Boston
  • Washington, DC.
Dates: All sections will be from 2018-01-02 to 2018-02-23. Application Link: https://www.thedataincubator.com/fellowship.html Data Science in 30 minutes: Learn how to build a data-science project in our upcoming free Data Science in 30-minutes webcast. Signup soon as space is limited. Learn More: You can learn about our fellows at The New York Times, LinkedIn, Amazon, Capital One, or Palantir. To read about our latest fellow alumni, check out our blog. To learn more about The Data Incubator, check us out on Venture Beat, The Next Web, or Harvard Business Review.

iOS Developer Needed at Startup

Hot Application Development Opportunity! Startup - Get in on the Ground Floor! Greencave is a technology company that is changing the way the world thinks about clubbing! What you'll need is experience developing, releasing, and maintaining iOS mobile applications. Excellent expertise in Objective-C/Swift. Insightful ideas about developing for mobile app platform using geo-fencing. Debugging skills and experience testing mobile applications. For more information, please email: dillon@jacknin.com

Bank of America’s Corporate Audit Analyst Program

My name is Jennie Jackson and I am a campus recruiter for Bank of America’s Corporate Audit Analyst Program. We are will be interviewing current seniors at the U of South Carolina on October 4th for full time analyst roles starting in July of 2018. In lieu of an on campus presentation, we will be hosting a virtual webinar next week, where we will discuss our program at length. Given the increasing technical scope of our roles we are finding that Computer Science majors are perfect candidates for our program, though they don’t always think of audit as potential career path. I’m not sure if this is something you commonly do, but I would love for you to forward the attached job description to your students and let them know that we will be interviewing for full time opportunities on campus on October 4th (and interested applicants should sign up through the career center’s website). Details on next week’s webinar is below. Register Here campus.bankofamerica.com/

Research Assistant for Current and Prospective Students in CSE Department

The Parallel Architecture and System Software research group at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering has multiple openings for research assistantship. We are looking for motivated graduate and undergraduate students who are interested in developing innovative solutions of compiler and system software, as well as of computer architectures for parallel and high performance computing, and for emerging computing paradigm including neuromorphic computing, quantum computing, cognitive technologies such as AI architecture and applications. To conduct productive research in those areas, knowledge of C/C++ programming, data structures, compiler, computer architecture and operating system with Linux are required. Knowledge and experience of parallel programming (PThreads, OpenMP, Cilkplus, CUDA, MPI, etc) are not required, but preferred. Preference will be given to full-time Ph.D. students, thesis-option master students, and senior undergraduate students. Within the group, you will work with a motivated team to solve cutting-edge performance problem in parallel computing and you will have opportunity of exposing yourself through peer-review publications, attendance and presentation in professional conferences worldwide, and internship in industry and government labs. If you are interested, drop me an email (yanyh@cse.sc.edu) with your resume/CV and transcript (no need official). We will schedule a time to meet or talk if there is a fit of your qualification. If you are prospective graduate students, you should also check the admission and program requirement for graduate study at USC. Thank you for your attention! Yonghong Yan Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of South Carolina Office: 3A48, Swearingen Engineering Center Phone: 803-777-7361 Fax: 803-777-3767 Email: yanyh@cse.sc.edu https://cse.sc.edu/~yanyh http://passlab.github.io

Graduate Research Assistant Position: Web Design and Development in the Google App Engine

Dr Vidal is looking to hire a Research Assistant to make some updates to the Wikitheoria website as part of an NSF grant jointly held with the Sociology department. The candidate must be a graduate student in the CSE department in good standing. This is a 1-year standard (20 hours/week + tuition) RA position, starting immediately. The student will be doing a lot of web design, so we will give preference to students with HCI and Web Design experience. The website is built on the Google app engine, using Python, so knowledge of both of them will also be useful. If you don't know it, be prepared to quickly learn it. If interested email a link to your personal website to Dr. Vidal.

SET Job Fair Prep Week,, September 20-26: Mock Interviews and Resume Reviews

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Paid Research Assistant Position in Data Science

I am looking for 1-2 graduate research assistants with minimum GPA 3.3 to work 10 hours/week for $10/hour between Sept 1st and Dec 8th (~$1200 in total). I prefer the students who joined USC on Spring 2017 and passed a data analytics course with A or B. Based on the RA performance, it is possible to renew the contract for Spring 2018. Please send me an email with your unofficial transcript and your CV including GPA, publications, research, technical, and industry experiences. I will contact the potential applicants to have a meeting at the School of Library and Information Science. Please contact me at karami@sc.edu if you any question. You find about this project and minimum requirements in the following. Responsibilities
  • Review research papers
  • Learn related data science methods
  • Analyze text data
  • Send weekly reports
Skills Required
  • Java or Python Programming (Intermediate Level)
  • Basic knowledge about statistics
  • Good writing skills
Skills Preferred
  • Research experience or publications
  • Knowledge about data science and text mining
Personal Characteristics Required:
  • Eager to learn new computational methods
  • Be responsible and tidy
Learning Objectives
  • How to analyze text data
  • How to develop a research in social media
  • How to interpret the outputs of data mining tools
Amir Karami, PhD Assistant Professor School of Library and Information Science

NIC Looking for ASP.NET Developers

Columbia has great talent and I am looking for software developers to join our growing team! NIC is focused on digital government and is a national industry leader. Our team in Columbia is dedicated to working with our SC government partners to build world class digital services for the citizens and businesses interacting with SC government. It just makes sense to reach out to you to create a connection with the University of South Carolina’s College of Engineering and Computer Science and NIC – South Carolina Interactive. If you’re even a little bit curious, please feel free to check us out: http://www.egov.com/ http://www.egov.com/careers The full job description for our two current openings in Columbia can be found here: http://chp.tbe.taleo.net/chp04/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=NICUSAIN… http://chp.tbe.taleo.net/chp04/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=NICUSAIN… Corinne Holland | General Manager, SC.gov

SPAWAR Hiring Hundreds this Fall and Spring

SPAWAR is on a hiring spree this next year, many of them are Computer jobs and for their Charleston location.
We are looking to hire 150 college graduates and 150 Interns by January 1st. Then in January, we will repeat the same numbers.
If you want to be considered for a job then submit your resume at their jobs page. Click on the top-right where it says join the team. SPAWAR will also be at the SET Career Fair, and Steve Lariviere from SPAWAR will be giving a presentation here sometime this semester. Keep an eye on /jobs for more info as we get it.

HPC and Applications Support: Graduate student position

15-20 hours/week The Research Cyberinfrastructure group (http://www.sc.edu/rci) has an open position in support of High Performance Computing (HPC) and research applications. Practical experience in Linux administration and installation is required. Knowledge of Python, OpenMP, MPI and GPU programming is desirable. This is a great opportunity for a graduate student who can work 15 to 20 hours per week. For consideration, send your resume to rci@sc.edu with a subject line “RCI HPC position”. Please include your major, degree sought (MS, PhD) and expected graduation date.