Tuesday, July 26, 2016

RE: Full-Time Qualcomm Opportunities



Job Id T1943512
Job Title: Platform Design Engineering Careers @ QUALCOMM- Raleigh, NC (RTP)
Company – Division: Qualcomm Incorporated - Technology Licensing

Job Area Engineering - Server
Location North Carolina - Raleigh

Overview
Work with a cross-functional team on the product definition, architecture and system prototypes of Qualcomms new ARMv8 based Server SOC ASICs. Primary responsibilities include specification, development and hardware shakeout of server platform board prototypes utilizing Qualcomms new SOC.

***Positions are located in Raleigh, NC***

Responsibilities:
- Work with internal teams to develop and support requirements.
- Develop functional specification for System and/or sub-systems.
- Define and design systems including processor, memory, I/O, BMC, power, electrical/mechanical and PCB definition/design.
- Bring up and debug Systems.

Skills Needed:
1-10+ years of experience in the following:
- Motherboard, daughtercard, backplane, and chassis signal and power delivery, decoupling, distribution and thermal management
- Qualifying and selecting power management ICs (PMICs), voltage regulator (VR) components, clock buffers, flash memory, CPLDs, connectors and incorporating into complex system designs
- System design tradeoffs of motherboard, daughtercard, backplane, connectors, cables and components
- Dense high layer count designs, 8-12 layers or higher.
- CPU board design and debugging for ARM or other high performance systems (e.g., x86, PowerPC, SPARC, MIPS)
- High speed (6-10+ Gbps) serial IO design, PCI-E Gen3, SATA 6 Gbps, Ethernet GE and 10GE. Physical design of systems with long (0.35-1.0 meter) PCB or cable topologies
- Understanding of link, transport, transaction and command levels for PCIe, SATA, and/or Ethernet.
- DDR3/DDR4 memory technologies, design, layout, validation
- Clock distribution, power distribution, baseboard management controllers, SMBus, PMBus, PWM/Tach
- Schematic capture and PCB layout tools such as Cadence Allegro, Mentor Boardstation or Expedition.
- Circuit simulation tools (SPICE), and Signal /Power Integrity concerns and analysis
- Lab equipment and debug tools: high speed oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, JTAG, SMBus and Serial port debuggers

Education Requirements:
Required: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering and/or Electrical Engineering
Preferred: Master's Degree in Computer Engineering and/or Electrical Engineering

Friday, July 22, 2016

The College Degrees With The Highest Starting Salaries In 2016

Excerpt from the Forbes article http://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2016/06/30/the-college-degrees-with-the-highest-starting-salaries-in-2016/#2f100525678d:

In compiling this year’s results, CERI – headed by college labor market expert, Phil Gardner – gathered information from more than 4,730 employers, accessed through nearly 200 career service centers throughout the country. The study includes information from respondents recruiting talent for full-time positions, internships, and co-ops.

Chemical engineering degrees, it turns out, yields the highest starting salaries for recent grads. By the numbers, annual pay for those who graduate with such a degree ranges from $34,850 to $100,600, averaging around $63,389. Computer engineering students come in second place, averaging around $63,313 in annual starting pay, followed by electrical engineering at $61,173.

Among Masters Degrees, Engineering majors attracted the highest salaries at more than $68,000, followed by Computer Science & IT ($67,735), and MBAs ($62,345).
PhD diplomas in Engineering & Computer Science bring in the highest starting pay at $76,702, followed by Physical & Biological Sciences ($63,809) and Business ($62,454).




Advising hours for the week of 7/25-7/29

Good Afternoon EE Majors:

I hope your summer is going well. My advising hours for next week are listed below.  Don't forget  the last day to drop/ withdrawal from a course or semester for Summer B and C is July 29, 2016. 

Advising Hours 7/25-7/29
Monday 10-12
Tuesday 10-12 and 1-4
Wednesday 11-12 and  1-4
Thursday 1-4
Friday: 10-12 and 1-4


Nicole

Thursday, July 7, 2016

RE: General Education Course Change:EEX3093 (Exceptional People) As of Summer B

Hi EE Majors!!!
 
Please be advised that effective Summer B, EEX3093 (Exceptional People) no longer awards general education credit Per the University Registrar Office.

Nicole

EE Undergraduate Advisor will be out of the office July 10-21, 2016

Good Morning EE Majors

I hope you are having a restful and productive summer.  I will be out of the office July 10-21, 2016 for vacation. I will not have access to email during this time. All emails will be replied to once I return to the office on July 22nd.  Please allow 48-72 hours for response time.  

If you need immediate assistance, email the CPE Advisor Allison Gatsche at agatsche@ece.ufl.edu. Please refer to the listing below for the contact information of several campus offices/departments. 

Admissions: 352-392-1365 / www.admissions.ufl.edu

Bursar: 352-392-0181 / www.fa.ufl.edu/bursar

Counseling Center: 352-392-1576 or 352-392-1575 / www.counseling.ufl.edu/

Dean of Students Office: 352-392-1261 / www.dso.ufl.edu

Financial Aid - Student Financial Affairs: 352-392-1275 / www.sfa.ufl.edu/

Flexible Learning: learn@dce.ufl.edu

Registrar: 352-392-1374 / www.registrar.ufl.edu


Critical Dates and Deadlines:
Last day to Drop/Add: 
July 29, 2016

ECE Exit Survey for Summer 2016 Graduation Class: 

July 22nd by 5:00 pm

EEL4948/4949 Students Work Reports &
Employer Evaluations: 
July 25th by 5:00 pm

EEL4905 1 page reports:
July 25th by 5:00 pm


Nicole

Updates on Course Offerings

Hi EE Majors, Just reminder when certain courses will be offered as of Fall 2019.   This is not an exhaustive list; schedules can change...