Class Meeting:
Tuesdays and/or Thursdays, 9:35-10:50pm, 124 HRBB
Course homepage:
http://parasol.tamu.edu/~rwerger/Courses/481
Instructor: Lawrence Rauchwerger
office: 515B Harvey R. Bright Bldg
email: rwerger [at] cs.tamu.edu
url: http://parasol.tamu.edu/~rwerger
office phone: 979-845-8872
Course Goals: The purpose of the course is to provide you with career planning resources and to expose you to a broad range of current topics in computer science and computer engineering that will be helpful to you in your careers.
Course Content and Schedule: This course consists of seminars which will be presented on Tuesdays and/or Thursdays during the semester. There will be a total of about 15 seminars during the semester. You are responsible for checking the seminar schedule on the course homepage and your email (announcements will be sent to the mailing list for the course) for up to date information. Be sure to check each monday and wednesday evening as sometimes seminars will be announced/cancelled at the last moment.
Generally, after the speaker(s) is finished, there will be a question and answer period where the audience can ask any questions they might have that were not answered during the seminar. This is often quite interesting and is considered part of the seminar. If the speaker is not finished, or if the question and answer period is ongoing, you are expected to stay until the end, or until 10:50am, whichever comes first. If you are in the seminar, you are expected to pay attention and refrain from activities such as doing other work, reading the newspaper, or sleeping. Behavior such as this gives speakers a bad impression of our program and students. Students noticed exhibiting such behavior will not receive credit for attending that seminar.
Mechanics and Grading: To receive credit for this course you must satisfy all of the following requirements:
Resources
| Date | Topic/Assignment | Speakers | What to turn in |
| Tu Jan 15 | 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 Jan 17 | 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 22 | RESUME ASSIGNMENT: prepare an up to date version of your resume suitable for use at the SEC Engineering Career Fair, January 22-23, 2007. You are encouraged to have your resume reviewed at the Career Center or at the special "Resume Reviews for ENGR Majors" sessions organized for the Career Fair in the Zachry Lobby from 1:00pm-4:00pm on Jan 18 and 9:00am-12:00pm on Jan 19, 2007. | Turn in a hardcopy of your resume by the deadline in the instructors mailbox on the 3rd floor of Bright or slip it under his office door (515B HRBB). | |
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Tue Jan 22 Report Due: beginning of class, Thu Jan 31 |
CAREER FAIR ASSIGNMENT: Attend the SEC Engineering Career Fair, Jan 22-23, 2008. (Class will not meet Tue Jan 22 to ensure you have time to attend the Career Fair.) | Submit a brief report in hardcopy at the beginning of class on Thu Jan 31 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 shorter than 1 page single-spaced and no longer than 2 pages single-spaced. | |
| Th Jan 24 | Interviewing Skills Employer Feedback (doc) | David McMahon, Texas A&M Career Center | Complete and turn in the seminar report (available and due in class) |
| Th Jan 29 | Debugging by Thinking: A Seven Year Retrospective | Robert Metzger, Convey Computer Corporation | Complete and turn in the seminar report (available and due in class) |
| Th Jan 31 | Interviewing Skills II: The Company Visit | David McMahon, Texas A&M Career Center | Complete and turn in the seminar report (available and due in class) |
| Tu Feb 5 | Salary & Benefits Analysis | Dr. Wayne Terrell, Texas A&M Career Center | Complete and turn in the seminar report (available and due in class) |
| Th Feb 7 | One Way of Doing Things: A Distributed Architecture for Decision Applications | Mark Mathis, Parasol Lab, Texas A&M and Los Alamos National Lab | Complete and turn in the seminar report (available and due in class) |
| Th Feb 12 | Software Careers in Schlumberger | Toni Smith, Training Development & Staffing Mgr and Bill Robertson, Embedded Software Development and Shannon Jones, Commercialization Engineer | Complete and turn in the seminar report (available and due in class) |
| Tu Feb 19 | Salary Negotiation | Dr. Wayne Terrell, Texas A&M Career Center | Complete and turn in the seminar report (available and due in class) |
| March 18 | IT Careers at Lockheed Martin | David Brannon, Lockheed Martin | Complete and turn in the seminar report (available and due in class) |
| March 25 | TBA | Todd Anglin, Telerik | Complete and turn in the seminar report (available and due in class) |
| April 3 | TBA | Marianne Manglicmot, ExxonMobil Global Services Company, Information Technology | Complete and turn in the seminar report (available and due in class) |
| April 10 | TBA | John Henthorne, ConocoPhillips, Global Application Services | Complete and turn in the seminar report (available and due in class) |
| April 17 | TBA | Nelson Sigoloff, IT Manager, Ashwin Bhandary, IT Lead, Candice Russle, IT Talent, Valero Energy Corporation | Complete and turn in the seminar report (available and due in class) |