Events



February 2009

2/2 Summer Internship Opportunity at Iowa State University. The Program for Women in Science and Engineering is offering its annual
*Summer Research Internship Program at Iowa State University.* This
eight-week summer internship is open to students attending college who
are interested in careers in science and engineering. The internships
are open to students after completion of their freshman year of college
and allows students to work on a variety of projects and gain hands-on
research experience under the supervision of ISU faculty and staff. In
addition, participants attend seminars, write research reports,
summarize their research in poster presentations and receive a stipend
of $3,500.
Additional information is available at: http://www.pwse.iastate.edu/summerintern.html

Deadline for Applications:  February 2, 2009


January 2009

1/30 $1000 SVEC Scholarshi Each year, Silicon Valley Engineering Council Engineering makes a number of
cash awards to worthy applicants. The goals of the SVEC scholarship program
are to identify and support deserving students whose studies are aligned
toward engineering, engineering technology, or technology, and to help them
achieve their educational goals. The SVEC Education awards
recognize young engineering and technology students for their dedication,
focus, and commitment to engineering. Engineering and Technology students
graduating from high school, or presently enrolled in undergraduate
community college and university programs are encouraged to apply. Students
may receive an SVEC Scholarship award only once.


The scholarship application form can be downloaded from the SVEC website:
http://www.svec.org/scholarships.html

A short essay (about 150 to 250 words) describing your academic and
professional goals. You are NOT required to be a member of any technical
society. Please note that this year we are NOT requiring official
transcripts - an unofficial printout will be fine.

Applications must be postmarked before January 30, 2009.
No applications will be accepted postmarked after this date.

Scholarship winners will be announced and awarded at the Annual SVEC
Engineers Week Banquet on February 19, 2009
1/30 First Mentoring lunch
Please join us for the First Mentor Lunch of the semester!

When: Friday, Jan. 30th
Where: Wozniak Lounge (4th floor of Soda)
Time: Noon to 1 pm

Food by Rick and Ann's Catering!

Graduate and Undergraduate Women Invited

October 2008

10/1 Graduate Fellowship Workshop Wondering how to fund your way through graduate school? Want to learn the secrets of a successful fellowship application? Come to the IEEE-sponsored EECS Graduate School Fellowships Workshop on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 5PM in 277 Cory. Free food provided by Intel.

Ask your questions and get insightful answers from the following distinguished panelists:
Karen Grutter - NSF
Laura Keys - NDSEG
Lester Mackey - Chancellor's Fellowship
Gireeja Randade - NSF
Dr. Sheila Humphreys - EECS Staff
10/8 Game Night!! Come and relax at our Game Night. There will be a Wii (with WiiSports, WiiPlay, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, etc.) and various board/card games. :)

Time: 8-10pm Where: 310 Soda
10/10 EECS Graduate School Fair The finest institutions for graduate study in electrical engineering and computer science in one place.
Friday Oct. 10 10-4pm
120ABC Bechtel

Featuring faculty and admissions officers from:
* Caltech * Carnegie Mellon * Purdue * Stanford * UC Berkeley * UC Irvine * UC San Diego * University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign * University of Southern California * University of Toronto
10/30 Open Source BootCamp Open Source BootCamp will take place at UC Berkeley on October 30th. It should be an interesting afternoon of talks about open source in general and how to get involved. It will also give the opportunity to meet a lot of influential people of the open source community.
The agenda of this event can be found here

They will also be holding a after-party at Blake's at 7:30pm! They will be handing our stickers at the event that will be passes for free drinks and food at Blake's.


May 2008

5/8 Women of Vision Awards As part of Google's ongoing partnership with the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, we are happy to sponsor the upcoming Women of VisionAwards. The Women of Vision (WOV) Awards honor women making significant contributions to technology in three categories: Innovation, Leadership, and Social Impact. Nominees are submitted by high-tech companies, universities, private industry, and the public, with one winner selected in each category.

This year's recipients are
- Innovation Award Winner: Helen Greiner, Co-founder and Chairman, iRobot
- Social Impact Award Winner: Susan Landau, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- Leadership Award Winner: Justine Cassell, Professor, Northwestern University

6:00 p.m. - Networking Reception
7:00 p.m. - Banquet
Fairmont Hotel, 170 South Market Street, San Jose, CA, 95113
Directionsand
Parking
*Business Formal Attire*

*Please RSVP directly to Ronner Lee by March 28th.*


March 2008

3/22 Expanding Your Horizons Expanding Your Horizons is a program at Mills College that teaches middle-school girls about science! AWE will provide rides to Mills College and will be hosting a workshop there; we will be teaching the girls how to make soda-bottle capacitors! If you are interested in helping out, please email Shelli at skinner@berkeley.edu.
3/28 Shadow-An-Engineer SWE at Cal is running the Shadow-An-Engineer program. In this program, students visit various companies in the bay area for a day, to learn about the work of engineers in the field. Accenture Technology Labs will be participating in this program and are inviting students over on March 28th. If you would like to participate, please contact Serena Cheng.
SERENA CHENG | Accenture Technology Labs | 408.817.2398 |
serena.t.cheng@accenture.com
3/? Robot Making Robot Making - We will be ordering Robot Kits (Mosquito repellent and text display) and building them! Please RSVP by 3/10/08. (Click on RSVP link above).


February 2008

2/11 Boba Night! Meet at Sather Gate at 5:30pm or at South Asian Ghetto at 5:45pm.
2/14 Valentine's Chocolate Day! Stop by the office anytime and we'll give you chocolate!


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