CareerShift Offers Internship and Job Postings for Students and Alumni

Looking for an Internship or a Job?

Current students and alumni are encouraged to try CareerShift, a new tool being offered by the AU Career Services office. CareerShift uses an online set of integrated applications to help job seekers successfully find employment.

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What you need to do…

·  Create an account

·  Search for jobs or internships in all sorts of ways to find just what you want

Find it here: CareerShift.

Putnam Exam

I just received the results of the 2011 Putnam Competition. Ashland University had 2 students receive non-zero scores: Polly Widmer received a score of 2 and Anna Payne received a score of 1.  (Cara Smith (2010) holds the record for the highest score by an Ashland University student - 12) A total of 4440 students from 572 colleges and universities in Canada and the United States participated in the competition this year. Of these 4440 participants, 2067 received scores of 0, 911 received scores of 1 and 293 received scores of 2.  Thus, Polly did better than 67.1% of students taking the exam and at least as well as 73.7% of students taking the exam while Anna did better than 46.6% of students taking the exam and at least as well as 67.1% of students taking the exam.  (Andrew Rowe (2006) still holds the record for the highest percentile rank, doing better than 76.2% of students taking the exam and at least as well as 82.7% of students taking the exam.) This year's top 5 teams were: 1) Harvard; 2) Carnegie-Mellon; 3) Cal Tech; 4) Stanford; and 5) MIT. Thanks again to all of you who participated in this year's exam, and I hope those of you who were not declared ineligible upon graduation in December will consider participating again next year.

Congratulations to Polly and Anna for receiving nonzero scores!

Dr. Swanson

Computer Science Honor Society UPE Welcomes New Members

The Ashland University Chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon (PUE) welcomes five new members. They were inducted on 11/7/2011. Welcome to the honor society!

Marissa Uhrig (Sophomore)

Kenny Bogner (Sophomore)

Tom Conti (Junior)

Matthew Smithburger (Junior)

Jim Huang (Junior)

ACM Programming Contest 2011

This year, three teams participated the 2011 ACM contest in the East Central North America Region at the Youngstown site. Team au_purple solved 2 out of 9 problems and ranked 40 out of 122 in our region. Team au_gold solved 1 out of 9 problems. 4 freshman came to observe the competition.

Here are two pictures taken before and after the contest. All smiles. .....

Good News

We were recently notified that the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) awarded the Ashland University undergraduate Integrated Mathematics and Bachelor’s Plus mathematics programs National Recognition. For more information on the program standards and review process, see http://www.nctm.org/standards/content.aspx?id=2978

Careers

CareerCast.com has posted the "Ten Best Jobs of 2011". Our department completed a clean sweep of the top five!

1. Software Engineer
2. Mathematician
3. Actuary
4. Statistician
5. Computer Systems Analyst

See more at http://www.careercast.com/jobs-rated/10-best-jobs-2011

Computer Science Students Intern at Smucker's

Computer Science majors Tom Conti and Matthew Smithburger started their summer internships in mid-May at Smucker’s in Orrville, OH.  The J.M. Smucker company is consistently recognized as one of the 100 best companies to work for by Fortune Magazine, and in 2004 it was ranked #1.  They are also included in the S&P 500 market index. 

Although their internships are both within the IT department, Tom and Matt are assigned to different groups and projects.  Matt works in the Sales and Marketing Administration group of IT, primarily focusing on Finance.  He is also working on upgrading R12 content for the company, which is the newest version of Oracle’s business suite.  Additionally, he  is helping with month-end financing processes and testing programs for the Windows 7 roll out.