These terms simply reflect that traditional science, engineering, technology distinction we see in all fields. That is:
Science | Engineering | Technology |
---|---|---|
Biology (human) | Medical Doctor | Medical Technologist, X-Ray Technician, Nurse |
Physics (electrical) | Electrical Engineer | Electrician |
Phyics (materials, mechanical) | Civil Engineer | General Contractor, Construction Worker |
Chemistry | Chemical Engineer | Factory worker at a chemical plant |
Computer Science | Software Engineer | Information Technology worker, network admin, computer admin |
We would like to make you and your undergraduate students aware of the Blue Waters undergraduate internship program. The NSF Blue Waters project will be funding 17 undergraduate research internships again this year. This program provides for: 1) a $5000 stipend for the student over the course of the year; 2) travel, accommodations, meals and participation in a two-week intensive Petascale Institute at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA); 3) travel to the SC11 conference in Seattle in November.
Because this program is run nationally NCSI is soliciting student applications from across the country, in addition they are seeking faculty with research or educational projects involving high performance computing to post intern positions through our site. Positions can be created for a particular student, or open to qualified applicants.
To learn more about the Blue Waters Undergraduate Petascale Education Program (BW-UPEP), and for information on how you can become involved, please visit our website here. Questions can be sent to jeffk@shodor.org.
I came across the paper below on this reddit thread. If you are considering a career in computers, please read this honest and realistic account of what that might be like and how it might compare with the other alternatives.
I especially don't get the "must spend all my time in front of the computer" complaint since the average teenage girl spends more time on facebook than the average developer spends on his computer.
Two upcoming informations sessions: Microsoft Date: Mon, Feb 7 Time: 6:30PM Location: B201, 300 Main Building CGI Technologies Date: Tues, Feb 15 Time: 5:30PM Location: Amoco Hall, Swearingen
SCANA Corporation (located in Cayce SC) has open positions for summer interns in our IT department. Students must have a cumulative GPA of 2.5 or higher, and must be enrolled in computer science or a related degree program. All interested applicants should apply online at www.scana.com for job number is 963037. We will accept online applications through 3/13/2011.
Vanguard will be at the SET fair looking for summer interns. In the last couple of years a handful of graduates from our department have joined Vanguard.
If you are a graduate student in our department (CSE), or an undergraduate who plans to apply to graduate school, and started school in a community college or regional campus then you can apply for the SC Graduate STEPs to STEM program which comes with a stipend of $10,000/year for 2 years. I know that CS is not listed in that webpage as one of the options, but I have been assured that they do accept CSE students (in fact, they have one currently in the program).
Position: Entry Level Java Developer Location: Spartanburg, SC Company: Confidential* (Financial Company) *Please contact for further details Salary: $50-$65k, commensurate with experience Our client is seeking to hire a full time Entry Level Java Developer for an immediate opening in Spartanburg, SC. Please contact Shannon Drawdy at sdrawdy@apexsystemsinc.com for more information and full description!
From this article in The State we get a list of new startups in Columbia. Notice that 3 out of the 4 startups involve the creation of software.
USC and Columbia officials announced Monday they will honor four businesses tonight as they graduate from the University of South Carolina Technology Incubator.
- EasyHRWeb makes computer software for companies’ human resources departments.
- Accelerations Educational Software makes computer software to educate people with autism and other learning disabilities.
- Quintesocial is a social media web site for trade associations.
- Hermosa Jewelry offers handcrafted, beaded jewelry.
DHS has a number of summer internships and scholarships available for undergraduate students. The deadlines for applying are in early January.
I just spoke to one of our project managers in the Columbia office and we just learned that we will need to hire 1 – 3 college hires this semester! I realize we’re a little behind the ball, but I was hoping that you might be able to help. Do you have any students that are graduating this December that do not yet have a job secured? If so, could you please encourage them to visit our website and apply to the position in SC, or send me their resume directly? Your help would be greatly appreciated! The link to the position is below: http://clients.njoyn.com/cgi/xweb/xweb.asp?clid=21001&page=jobdetails&jobid=J1010-0440 Whitney Ragan Campus Recruiting CGI, US Enterprise Markets
“That’s the part of the story that was missing when people complained about foreigners providing computer services at a lower cost than Americans. It did put some Americans in some industries out of work at first. But it let companies pay a lot less for computer services. Companies that couldn’t afford computers before were now able to. Companies that already were using computers expanded their use of technology. The worriers ignored all those benefits and all the new things that became possible because Americans didn’t have to spend as much as they did before to get computer technology. And as it turned out, only the lowest-paying computer jobs became less numerous. Those were the jobs that foreigners could do at a distance much more cheaply than Americans. Between 1999 and 2004, when the worries about outsourcing were at their peak, the number of computer programmers in America fell by 25 percent. But the number of software engineers rose by 50 percent, more than making up for the lost jobs in computer programming. Overall, the number of high-paying computer jobs rose by 17 percent, and the real wages of American workers in the computer industry increased as well. Outsourcing made most workers in the high-tech sector better off as demand for those skills increased.”
FYI, a computer programmer is someone who taught himself a little bit of programming in order to land the job, a software engineer is someone with a BS in CSE.