| Date | Topic/Assignment | Speakers | What to turn in |
| Tue Jan 17 | Information Session and Preliminary Course Survey | Nancy Amato | Complete and turn in student information form |
| Thu Jan 19 | Building your Resume From the Ground Up and How to ``Work'' a Career Fair | David McMahon, Texas A&M Career Center | Complete and turn in the seminar report (available and due in class) |
| Due: 5pm Mon Jan 23 | RESUME ASSIGNMENT: prepare an up to date version of your resume suitable for use at the SEC Engineering Career Fair, January 23-24, 2005. You are encouraged to have your resume reviewed at the Career Center or at the special sesssions organized for the Career Fair in the Zachry Lobby from 8:30am-11:30am on January 19 and 20, 2006. | Turn in a hardcopy of your resume by the deadline in the instructors mailbox on the 3rd floor of Bright or slip it under her office door (414B HRBB). | |
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Jan 23-24 Report Due: beginning of class, Thu Feb 2 |
CAREER FAIR ASSIGNMENT: Attend the SEC Engineering Career Fair, January 23-24, 2006. | Submit a brief report in hardcopy at the beginning of class describing your experiences at the Career Fair. What booths did you visit? What do you think you did right? What do you think you could do better? Your report should be as long as needed to describe your experiences, but no longer than 2 pages single-spaced. | |
| Thu Jan 26 | Overview of TAMU Career Center and Interesting Statistics regarding computer science & computer engineering majors | David McMahon, Texas A&M Career Center | Complete and turn in the seminar report (available and due in class) |
| Thu Feb 2 | Interviewing Skills | David McMahon, Texas A&M Career Center | Complete and turn in the seminar report (available and due in class) |
| Tue Feb 7 | Panel: Opportunities with a Graduate Degree - in Academia and in an Industrial Research Lab | Dr. John Keyser (Assistant Professor, CS@TAMU); Dr. Clay Williams (Manager, IBM TJ Watson Research Center). | Complete and turn in the seminar report (available and due in class) |
| Tue Feb 14 | Salary Negotiation | Dr. Wayne Terrell, Texas A&M Career Center | Complete and turn in the seminar report (available and due in class) |
| Thu Feb 16 | Panel: Undergraduate Research - Why, When and How? | Roger Pearce, Shawna Thomas, Olga Tkachyshyn | Complete and turn in the seminar report (available and due in class) |
| Thu Feb 23 | The Application Process for Gradaute School Admission & Fellowships | Nancy Amato | Complete and turn in the seminar report (available and due in class) |
| Thu Mar 2 | Microsoft and Academia: A Dialog |
William H. Gates, Chairman and Chief Software Architect,
Microsoft Corporation,
Maria Klawe, Dean of Engineering, Princeton University,
Webcast from the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, July 2005 |
Complete and turn in the seminar report (available and due in class) |
| Tue Mar 7 | Some Observations About Broader Societal Issues of Computing Research and Education |
Wm. A. Wulf,
president of the
National Academy of Engineering,
vice chair of the
National Research Council
Webcast from the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, July 2005 |
Complete and turn in the seminar report (available and due in class) |
| Tue March 21 | Career Opportunities | Will Bell (Lockheed Martin Company); | Complete and turn in the seminar report (available and due in class) |
| Thu April 6 | Panel: Different Career Paths Available with a CS or CE Degree | Moderator: Valerie Taylor (CS@TAMU), Panelists: Don Pitts (Raytheon); Brent Granstaff (Raytheon); Dan Purvis (Omnia Technology, LLC) | Complete and turn in the seminar report (available and due in class) |
| Thu April 13 | Panel: Different Career Paths in a Single Corporation | Hewlett-Packard Panel | Complete and turn in the seminar report (available and due in class) |
| Tue April 25 | Panel: Different Career Paths in a Single Corporation | Schlumberger Panel | Complete and turn in the seminar report (available and due in class) |
| Thu April 27 | Seminar Wrap-Up | Nancy Amato | Complete and turn in the course evaluation (available and due in class) |