NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps)
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Dynamic Equity Split Financing -- Pie Tasting with Mike Moyer
You and a partner go in "50/50" on a new business. You do all the work, he owns half the company. Now what? Slicing Pie outlines a simple method for dividing equity in an early stage company that tells you exactly the right number of shares for each participant. All other methods of dividing up equity create problems- all of them. Slicing Pie gives you a way to acquire the things you need to build your business without cash. This is the perfect seminar for anyone who wants to start their own company. Based on the book Slicing Pie, by Mike Moyer.
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BUMP Team: Developing the OpenSocket Program
In 2009, the founders of Bump Nonprofit Design Studio invented the OpenSocket, an innovative, off-the-shelf prosthetic device. The group will present updates on their work distributing the device through partner organizations in Central America, India, and Sierra Leone. Interns will report on a new initiative to scale and relocate manufacturing as well as the development of a new child-sized OpenSocket prosthesis.
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AXIS Reinsurance
1800 S Oak
Suite 204A
Champaign
Illinois
61820
2173779288
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Company Overview:
Building:
Company Category:
Other/Business/Consulting
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State Farm® RDC Virtual Tour
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State Farm® RDC New Intern Experiences Mid Summer Thoughts
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Computational Science and Engineering Applied Research Institute
2100 S. Oak St.
Suite 206
Champaign
Illinois
61820
217-244-7235.
Friday, July 19, 2013
Company Overview:
Building:
Company Category:
University Units
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Visual Basic Compiler Developer – Contract/Intern
Company Name:
Category:
Software Engineering
Status:
Internship
Salary Range:
University intern/student job rates apply
Contact Email:
NelsonJeffreyA@JohnDeere.com
Description:
Job Function: Computer - Design, Development, and Programming, Engineering - Computer
Description of Duties and Responsibilities :
John Deere is looking for a student to work in a part-time contract position working with Visual Basic and Microsoft Excel. The ideal candidate will have experience with Visual Basic and Excel and the capacity for investigating and learning new interfaces with and environmental assessment software package. Utilizing this approach a compiler will be developed to transform product information into the needed format for analysis by this software.
This position will be located in the UIUC Research Park where other engineering students will provide a resource for project information.
Deliverable:
- Working software for parsing and compiling data, per given framework
Hours and Timeline:
- Starts immediately, hours are flexible and part time, from 5-20 hours per week for about two months
Desired Qualifications of Appilcants:
Skills (must have)
- Visual Basic / Excel Experience
- Ability to work with unfamiliar software package to create desired function
Other skills (nice to have)
- Mechanical engineering and/or material knowledge
Location: Champaign, IL
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PhotoniCare
405 N. Mathews Ave.
Urbana
Illinois
61801
405-880-7209
rlshelt@illinois.edu
Friday, July 26, 2013
Company Overview:
Building:
Company Category:
Biotechnology
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Front-end/User Interface Software Developers
Company Name:
Category:
Software Engineering
Status:
Full-Time
Contact Email:
resume-champaign@yahoo-inc.com
Description:
Yahoo Champaign is looking to hire front-end/user interface software developers at all levels including: new college hires and very experienced senior engineers. Please send resumes to resume-champaign@yahoo-inc.com
About Yahoo!
Yahoo! builds media, communications, and advertising products that serve more than half a billion people. Every day, we connect millions of consumers to the people and things that matter to them most. We are looking for top technical talent to help us balance the functionality, reliability, and cost of the systems that drive our global products. This position is a great opportunity to advance the state of the art in Internet technologies, and to learn to design and operate some of the biggest information and communication systems in the world.
How Big Can You Think
In this role, you will have chance to grow and play a key technical role in building the world's most advanced UI for advertising and insight systems. If you know and love UI development using OO Javascript, nodeJS UI framework, php or Java technologies and have equipped yourself with strong problem-solving skills, solid computer science fundamentals, and are ready to be challenged with building UI application for the Y! online media business, this position is a rare opportunity for you!
Your mission will be to contribute to the design, development and implementation of the next generation of online advertising and insights systems. You will work in a dynamic environment, with a group of top notch engineers on a highly visible product, defining, designing, implementing, testing, and releasing new features on both the client and the server.
Job Responsibilities:
As a team member you will have an opportunity of work on many of these systems as well as work with various cross-functional teams to participate in entire life-cycle of the products.
Understand the business requirements, translate them into design and implementation approaches, and rapidly drive convergence towards the best solution.
Engineer the full product lifecycle, from concepts, design through to maintenance, managing prioritization and trade-offs across functional domains
Hands-on coding: Develop and maintain high quality code base, consistently delivering challenging, stable, and maintainable projects on schedule.
Minimum Job Qualifications: Passion for UI development.
A solid computer science foundation including data structures, programming languages, operating systems, software engineering, and databases.
Please send resumes to resume-champaign@yahoo-inc.com
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Mechanical Engineer
Company Name:
Category:
Engineering
Status:
Full-Time
Contact Email:
larry.arnold@sonybiotechnology.com
Description:
Sony Biotechnology Inc. manufactures, distributes, and services flow cytometry products and accessories. Sony Biotechnology Inc. has an immediate opening for a Mechanical Engineer. The successful candidate will be responsible for design, analysis, testing, and manufacturing of mechanical components and their integration into a complex biomedical cell measurement instrument (flow cytometer).
Responsibilities:
- Design, analysis, testing and manufacturing of mechanical components.
- Integration of components into complex cell measurements.
- Other tasks as requested by Management.
Basic Qualifications:
- BS degree in Mechanical Engineering
- Self-motivated, independent and comfortable working in a team environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Works precisely and pays attention to details.
- Ability to develop and carry out engineering test plans.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Proficiency in Solidworks for creating solid models of parts and assemblies, and
for creating detailed fabrication prints.
- Experience with fluidics and optical design is desired
- Strong problem analysis and solving skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Familiarity with manufacturing and production processes
- Self-motivated, independent and comfortable working in a team environment
- Previous biotech or medical instrument design experience would be helpful
- Works precisely and pays close attention to details
- Advanced organizational skills, with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple
tasks simultaneously
Please send resumes and inquiries to : larry.arnold@sonybiotechnology.com
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EnterpriseWorks Virtual Tour
Virtual tour of EnterpriseWorks. For more information, please visit: http://researchpark.illinois.edu/about/amenities
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Solder Stylus, BioAnalytics
BioAnalytics' Solder Stylus
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Back-End Software Developers
Company Name:
Category:
Software Engineering
Status:
Full-Time
Contact Email:
resume-champaign@yahoo-inc.com
Description:
Yahoo Champaign is looking to hire back-end software developers at all levels including: new college hires and very experienced senior engineers. Please send resumes to resume-champaign@yahoo-inc.com
Yahoo is one of the world most trafficked destination on the internet. This requires massively scalable, distributed, high performance and efficient software systems. We are always looking to improve on those areas to further enrich our user experience. If you want to solve complex problems in these areas, we are looking for you.
About Yahoo!
Yahoo! Advertising & Data team is one of the biggest online data & advertising programs on the internet. It allows advertisers to reach the masses through Yahoo! and partner networks. We are developing next generation technologies to enrich our advertiser and user experience through complex scalable ad platform, with ever growing interesting challenges. We're looking for world-class, fun-loving engineers to join our team where you will have the opportunity to be part of Ad platforms ranging from Ad-buying & insights experience to data processing and ad serving components.
Job Responsibilities
We are looking for software engineers at various experience levels. You will be working on next generation infrastructure as well as supporting new functionalities on existing platform including optimization, performance, design and architecture problems. Our advertising booking to serving infrastructure serves multi-billions ad impressions on daily basis. Developing for this infrastructure presents many technical challenges in the areas of efficient query processing, high throughput systems, large scale data processing, applying various targeting dimensions as well as satisfying complex business rules.
This following knowledge will be useful for this job position, but is not required to apply.
Large-scale data processing experience
Experience in Hadoop Map-Reduce/ PIG, HBase, Hive
Database and SQL understanding
Understanding of database internals and implementation techniques; working
knowledge of SQL
Understanding of database query processing and indexing is preferred
Knowledge of Data Structures & Algorithms
Solid understanding of data structures & common algorithms
Understanding of time-complexity of algorithms
Implementation and design of distributed systems
Programming and language skills
Understanding and experience with UNIX and Shell scripting
Knowledge of Perl and Python scripting languages
Strong in Java; Strong knowledge of C++ is also preferred but not required
System design and implementation experience
Experience with machine learning algorithms and/or statistical methods
Familiarity with information retrieval techniques is preferred
Familiar with fault tolerance system design and high performance engineering
Fundamental concepts of scheduling, synchronization, IPC and memory management
Candidates should have a computer science, computer engineer, or equivalent degree.
Please send resumes to resume-champaign@yahoo-inc.com
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EnterpriseWorks Graduate aPriori Secures An Additional $6 Million in Funding
Category:
http://www.heraldonline.com/2013/07/25/5053654/apriori-secures-an-additional.html
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Part-Time Intern for Recruiting and Admin Work
Company Name:
Category:
Administrative/Support Services
Status:
Internship
Contact Email:
champaign-hiring@yahoo-inc.com
Description:
Yahoo! Champaign is looking to hire a part-time intern for recruiting and admin work for our Champaign office. Please send resumes to champaign-hiring@yahoo-inc.com
Responsibilities:
- Work with the Champaign site recruiting team to coordinate on-site interviews
- Oversee the on-site interview process, including scheduling interviews, posting jobs, downloading resumes, and handling the recruiting process
- Develop and build relationships with U of I campus for various recruiting and networking events
- Maintain candidate pipeline and database updates
- Some admin work such file expense reports, coordinate travel, and arrange meetings
- Compose and edit emails, meeting minutes, and other documents
Qualifications:
- Perusing bachelor degree in communication, HR, or marketing
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
- Excellent organization and social skills
- Available to work 12-18 hrs spread out during the week
- Should have a strong sense of commitment and responsibility
- Attention to detail, strong hands on, flexible with assignments, and can-do attitude
- Some experience with recruiting or similar role; preferably within a professional services environment is plus
Please send resumes to champaign-hiring@yahoo-inc.com
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Research Park Honors Most Outstanding Interns of 2013
Five outstanding interns working for companies in the Research Park, all students at the University of Illinois, were honored Aug 1. More than 400 highly-skilled student interns work for Research Park tenants, gaining valuable experience while making real contributions to internal corporate research and development programs.
The 2013 winners are:
Most Advance Marketing/Business Development: Megan Broom, senior in speech and hearing science, IMO (Intelligent Medical Objects, Inc.)
Megan recommended new processes which will be implemented at the corporate level.
Best Entrepreneurial Leadership in a Startup: Yuyan Hua, graduate student in Materials Science and Engineering, Serionix
“Diligent and aggressive,” in less than three months Yuyan helped Serionix progress on a project that has resulted in a minimal viable product being ready for customer evaluation.
Best Tech Innovation in the Research Park: Josh Eckhardt, senior in Computer Science, Caterpillar
Josh’s technical contribution to a web-based optimization tool is now being applied, and in just one manufacturing facility shows an initial cost reduction of $1 to 2 million.
Most Valuable Graduate Student in the Research Park: Dan Zhou, doctoral student in Food Science and Human Nutrition, Abbott
Dan translated scientific evidence into talking points and other information that can be used to educate policymakers on key Abbott Nutrition health policy issues.
Most Valuable Undergraduate Student in the Research Park: Daniel Loeblich, junior in Chemical Engineering, Dioxide Materials
Daniel’s work has accelerated company efforts to bring its CO2 sensor to market and made other important contributions to patent-pending fabrications.
Finalists in each category are:
Most Valuable Graduate Student in the Research Park:Julie Honneger, Agricultural and Biological Engineering graduate student, Waterborne Environmental; Shuai Wang, Educational Psychology graduate student, State Farm Research and Development Center
Most Valuable Undergraduate Student in the Research Park: Sam Rappeport, Materials Science and Engineering undergraduate, Serionix; Bryan Plummer, Computer Science undergraduate, State Farm Research and Development Center
Best Tech Innovation in the Research Park: Cristina Abad, doctoral student in Computer Science, Yahoo!; Brian Doherty, Computer Science undergraduate, IMO
Best Entrepreneurial Leadership in a Startup: Siddhant Morakhia, General Engineering undergraduate, BioAnalytics
Most Advance Marketing/Business Development: Michelle Kwak, Industrial Design undergraduate, John Deere Technology Innovation Center
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2013 Research Park Intern Awards
Intern Awards Picnic
Atkins Building - UIUC Research Park
Thursday, August 1, 2013
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IT Part-Time Student - Information Systems - Urbana, IL
Company Name:
Category:
Administrative/Support Services
Status:
Part-Time
Contact Email:
CollegeRecruiting@JohnDeere.com
Description:
John Deere combines innovation and technology to produce exceptional equipment and services that delight our customers. We are a world leader in providing advanced products and services and are committed to the success of customers whose work is linked to the land – those who cultivate, harvest, transform, enrich and build upon the land to meet the world’s dramatically increasing need for food, fuel, shelter and infrastructure. Since 1837, John Deere has delivered innovative products of superior quality built on a tradition of integrity. We make John Deere a great place to work through an emphasis on work-life balance and a values-based culture that encourages professional development and community involvement.
What You’ll Do
The Part-Time Student Program is primarily designed to augment the Company's regular full-time staff, and is for students who work in parallel to their school schedule. Major duties include:
- Working at John Deere's Technology Innovation Center (JDTIC) at the University of Illinois research park to support John Deere's Knowledge and Content Management initiatives
- Providing Corporate business consulting for knowledge and content management applications such as SharePoint, Enterprise Search and Digital/Media Asset Solutions
- Performing SharePoint site design/customizations of low to medium complexity
- Analyzing data and information to build/improve business processes
- Acting as a member of various project teams within Enterprise Content Management Services to build business solutions
What It Takes
We need excellent communicators, who thrive on solving problems and working in a team environment. Ideally you will be at least in junior standing pursuing a BS in Computer Science or BS in Information Systems/Technology; others may qualify. In addition we require:
- Must be registered as a full-time student
- Grad date – December 2014 or later
- Cumulative GPA of 2.8 and above
- 15 - 20 hours/week during the academic year
- 35 - 40 hours/week during the summer semester
- Must be able to commute to the work location on a daily basis
- Knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word
A strong candidate will also have:
- An understanding of applications development environment, database, data management and infrastructure capabilities and constraints
- Software programming skills necessary to create and maintain web based applications
- Ability to analyze, translate and define business requirements into technical solutions
- Prior experience with Content Management tools, such as SharePoint, Enterprise Search, Media Asset Management
- Prior experience with web design
- Experience giving presentations to groups
What You’ll Get
At John Deere, you are empowered to create a career that will take you to where you want to go. Here, you'll enjoy the freedom to explore new projects, the support to think outside the box and the advanced tools and technology that foster innovation and achievement. Part-time employees receive competitive compensation and are eligible for many benefits, including tuition assistance.
Can you imagine the challenge of a lifetime and a rewards package that makes it all worthwhile?
The information contained herein is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and qualifications required of individuals performing the job. The qualifications detailed in this job description are not considered the minimum requirements necessary to perform the job, but rather as guidelines. An Equal Opportunity Employer, John Deere requires a diversity of people, perspectives and ideas to address the complex challenges of its global business.
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IT Part-Time Student - Information Systems - Champaign, IL
Company Name:
Category:
Administrative/Support Services
Status:
Part-Time
Contact Email:
CollegeRecruiting@JohnDeere.com
Description:
John Deere combines innovation and technology to produce exceptional equipment and services that delight our customers. We are a world leader in providing advanced products and services and are committed to the success of customers whose work is linked to the land – those who cultivate, harvest, transform, enrich and build upon the land to meet the world’s dramatically increasing need for food, fuel, shelter and infrastructure. Since 1837, John Deere has delivered innovative products of superior quality built on a tradition of integrity. We make John Deere a great place to work through an emphasis on work-life balance and a values-based culture that encourages professional development and community involvement.
What You’ll Do
The Part-Time Student Program is primarily designed to augment the Company's regular full-time staff, and is for students who work in parallel to their school schedule. Major duties include:
- Working at John Deere's Technology Innovation Center (JDTIC) at the University of Illinois research park to support John Deere's information management and analytic initiatives
- Providing Corporate business consulting for analytic data (including geospatial data), analytics and business intelligence using applications like ArcMap, Tableau, SAS, Statistica and R
- Performing guided analytics, dashboards and report design/customizations of low to medium complexity
- Analyzing data and information to build/improve business processes
- Investigate, research and manage acquisition of new and meaningful data sources for analytics
- Acting as a member of various project teams within Global Analytic Services to build business solutions
What It Takes
We need excellent communicators, who thrive on solving problems and working in a team environment. Ideally you will be at least in Sophomore standing or greater pursuing at least a BS in Computer Science or MS in Statistics or related field. In addition we require:
- Must be registered as a full-time student
- Grad date – December 2014 or later
- Cumulative GPA of 2.8 and above
- 15 - 20 hours/week during the academic year
- 35 - 40 hours/week during the summer semester
- Must be able to commute to the work location on a daily basis
- Knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word
A strong candidate will also have:
- Understanding of data structures, database and data management
- Software programming skills necessary to formulate queries and to create simple applications
- Ability/Desire to work independently and as a member of a team
- Experience with analytic tools such as R, SAS, Statistica, MiniTab or SPSS and visualization tools such as Tableau, Business
- Experience with database and query tools like MS Access or SQL
What You’ll GetAt John Deere, you are empowered to create a career that will take you to where you want to go. Here, you'll enjoy the freedom to explore new projects, the support to think outside the box and the advanced tools and technology that foster innovation and achievement. Part-time employees receive competitive compensation and are eligible for many benefits, including tuition assistance.
Can you imagine the challenge of a lifetime and a rewards package that makes it all worthwhile?
The information contained herein is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and qualifications required of individuals performing the job. The qualifications detailed in this job description are not considered the minimum requirements necessary to perform the job, but rather as guidelines. An Equal Opportunity Employer, John Deere requires a diversity of people, perspectives and ideas to address the complex challenges of its global business.
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