This week multiple internship positions have been posted to UMBCworks for engineering and math majors. Check out these new positions today:

.Net Developer Intern

Agora Incorporated - Baltimore, Maryland

POSITION TYPE: Internship Opportunities

POSTING DATE: May 20, 2014

Atlantic Information Services, Inc. - Washington, District of Columbia

POSITION TYPE: Internship Opportunities

POSTING DATE: May 20, 2014

Concurrent Technologies Corporation - Annapolis Junction, Maryland

POSITION TYPE: Internship Opportunities

POSTING DATE: May 20, 2014

Arch Systems, LLC - Baltimore, Maryland

POSITION TYPE: Internship Opportunities

POSTING DATE: May 19, 2014

The Office of Science and Technology Policy - Washington, District of Columbia

POSITION TYPE: Internship Opportunities

POSTING DATE: May 16, 2014

United States Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics - Washington, District of Columbia

POSITION TYPE: Internship Opportunities

POSTING DATE: May 15, 2014

Gatekeeper - College Park, Maryland

POSITION TYPE: Internship Opportunities

POSTING DATE: May 15, 2014

Graphic Artist/Web Designer Intern

C2 Technologies, Inc. - Vienna, Virginia

POSITION TYPE: Internship Opportunities

POSTING DATE: May 27, 2014

RMF Engineering - Baltimore- UMBC Research Park, Maryland

POSITION TYPE: Internship Opportunities

POSTING DATE: May 27, 2014

Flinja - Los Angeles, California

POSITION TYPE: Internship Opportunities

POSTING DATE: May 25, 2014

Convergent Technologies Inc. - Baltimore- UMBC Research Park, Maryland

POSITION TYPE: Internship Opportunities

POSTING DATE: May 19, 2014

To access these positions, login to your UMBCworks account (via the link
in the Jobs & Internships topic in myUMBC) and find details and 
application instructions as well as hundreds of other job postings!  

Please note you MUST have an approved resume and be released by a CSC Staff Member to apply to internships. To schedule an appointment, click on 
"Request a Counseling Appointment" from the UMBCworks homepage or call 
410-455-2216.

Innovations in Cybersecurity Education Workshop

University of Maryland, Baltimore County
9:30 – 4:30 Tuesday, 24 June 2014

Innovations in Cybersecurity Education is a regional workshop on cybersecurity education at all levels, from Kindergarden through post-graduate. It will include discussions about cyber competitions, hands-on exercises, educational games, and integrating cybersecurity throughout the curriculum. There will be an opportunity to experience hands-on cyber defense exercises and to play new computer security education games, including SecurityEmpire developed at UMBC.

The workshop is free and open to the public — all are welcome to attend. This workshop will to be of interest to educators, school administrators, undergraduate and graduate students, and government officials. Lunch will be provided and there is ample free parking for participants.

Please see the links above for the schedule and location and register to help us plan for the number of participants.

The workshop is organized by Dr. Alan T. Sherman with support provided in part by the National Science Foundation under SFS grant 1241576.

The Maryland Cybersecurity Roundtable will be launched at an open meeting at the Hotel at Arundel Mills Preserve from 1:30-2:30 on Thursday, May 29. Attend to learn about the Roundtable, hear about the organization’s goals and initiatives and discover ways to get involved. RSVP online by May 27.

The Maryland Cybersecurity Roundtable is a premiere forum for the discussion of cybersecurity challenges and solution development, advancement of cyber-related business innovation and growth, programs, policies, and education within Maryland and the region. The Roundtable is dedicated to creating connections and building relationships among current cyber professionals and businesses and fostering the development of the next generation of cyber thought leaders.

Name: Ademayowa Balogun

Internship, Co-op or Research Site: University of Iowa (summer 2013)

Major(s)/Minor(s): Biology

Expected Graduation Year: May 2014

Briefly describe your internship, co-op, research, or service-learning opportunity, including your day-to-day tasks, responsibilities, and assignments.

This summer I conducted research in microbiology at the University of Iowa. It was my job to determine the localization of a receptor called TIM-1 that plays an important role in Ebola virus infection. Daily, my tasks included maintaining and developing cell lines of Chinese Hamster Ovary Cell tissue cultures, transducing them with virus, and monitoring levels of viral transduction via flow cytometry. I also ran many western blots and used confocal microscopy in order to gather more information about the localization of this receptor under various conditions.

What have you enjoyed the most about your position or organization/company?

I truly enjoyed the research that I conducted and the freedom that I had to try new things. In many instances, I was able to perform my own protocols or use my own ideas in order to further my research. This creative freedom honestly is what led to much of the success of my research this summer, as I had many ideas that ended up working. I think that stimulating the minds of interns is a huge asset to them later, as they can recall instances when problem solving and troubleshooting led to discovery.

What have you gained from your experience that you could not have gained from another opportunity?

The resources that I had at the University of Iowa were great, which enhanced my research experience greatly. The student mentorship I received was also unique, as I was given free reign over many aspects of my project, while still receiving important instruction.

What advice would you give to another student who is seeking an internship or similar experience?

Be open to doing research. Everyone's experience is different, but if you are sensitive to things going on around you, you will always be able to draw something important out of the internship. Sometimes, you may find that the type of research you are doing is not your favorite, and that is good to know, too. Not every internship is a match made in heaven, but all experiences can teach you something if you are open enough to them.

How do you see your experience as meaningful? This might involve skills you’ve gained, information you’ve learned, mentors you’ve connected with, or projects you’ve completed.

Science research is one of the most difficult career choices, in my opinion, because 90% of the time things don't work as you plan, but I can honestly say that the 10% success outweighs the failure in the end. In the first 8 weeks of my internship, I gained a vast knowledge of my research and learned how to plan and conduct various types of experiments, only to see them fail, one by one. My graduate student and my PI encouraged me, and urged me to keep trying to get some data. They all left for a scientific conference for a week, leaving me to fend for myself in the lab, and with one last idea of an experiment. Suddenly, all of the experiments began to work, and I found myself knee-deep in more research to do and data to gain before they all returned. Although I spent upwards of 12 hours in the laboratory at times, I did not mind because I knew that things were progressing, and there was something to be discovered. In the last 2 weeks of my 10 week internship, I attained 80% of my final project data. The experimental skills and training that I received were great, but the most meaningful part of my experience came from failure, sustained perseverance and then success. I know that graduate school will be very difficult, much like my internship, but I am willing to push past the failures and setbacks because I know that there is purpose behind my actions, and that there will be something to learn if I keep trying.

Please provide a short quote about what you liked most about your position / earning internship credit / the internship placement process.

"Having an internship is an excellent way of developing purpose as an undergraduate, especially in preparing to enter the workforce or graduate school. The experience gives you a good, realistic perspective of potential career paths & is an invaluable experience! I really enjoyed this summer."

- Congratulations on graduating!

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Human Sensor Networks for Disasters

Oleg Aulov

11:00am Thursday, 29 May 2014, ITE325b, UMBC

This dissertation, presents a novel approach that utilizes quantifiable social media data as a human aware near real-time observing system coupled with geophysical predictive models for improved response to disasters and extreme events. It shows that social media data has the potential to significantly improve disaster management beyond informing the public and emphasizes the importance of different roles that social media can play in management, monitoring, modeling and mitigation of natural and human-caused disasters.

In the proposed approach, social media sources are viewed as a Human Sensor Network, and Social Media users are viewed as “human sensors” that are “deployed” in the field, and their posts are considered to be “sensor observations”. I have utilized the “human sensor observations”, i.e. data acquired from social media, as boundary value forcings to show improved geophysical model forecasts of extreme disaster events when combined with other scientific data such as satellite observations and sensor measurements. In addition, I have developed a system called ASON maps that dynamically combines model forecast outputs with specified social media observations and physical measurements to define the regions of event impacts such as flood distributions and levels, beached tarballs, power outages etc. Real time large datasets were collected, archived and are available for following recent extreme disasters events as use case scenarios.

In the case of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster of 2010 that devastated the Gulf of Mexico, the research demonstrates how social media data can be used as a boundary forcing condition of the oil spill plume forecast model, and results in an order of magnitude forecast improvement. In the case of Hurricane Sandy NY/NJ landfall impact of 2012, owing to inherent uncertainties in the weather forecasts, the NOAA operational surge model only forecasts the worst-case scenario for flooding from any given hurricane. This dissertation demonstrates how the model forecasts, when combined with social media data in a single framework, can be used for near-real time forecast validation, damage assessment and disaster management. Geolocated and time-stamped photos allow near real-time assessment of the surge levels at different locations, which can validate model forecasts give timely views of the actual levels of surge, as well as provide an upper bound regional street level maps beyond which the surge did not spread. In the case of the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011, social media aspects of handheld devices such as Geiger counters that can potentially detect radioactive debris are discussed as well.

Committee: Dr. Milton Halem (chair), Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, James Smith, Yelena Yesha

Concurrent Technologies Corporation (http://www.ctc.com/) is trying to fill a internship with an undergrad with good software skills to start as soon as possible in their Annapolis Junction, MD facility. If you meet the qualifications and are interested, please follow the directions at the end of this announcement.

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Are you ready to start your career at a corporation with a respected national reputation for solving complex technical challenges? Become a part of our team. Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC) has an opportunity for qualified Software Development Intern.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT INTERN

Primary Responsibilities: CTC is offering a Participative Internship Program (PIP), which is a twelve week, technically focused group internship experience. The PIP is a mix of direct project work coupled with a relevant research project and end of internship presentation. It is a structured internship program providing student mentorship, leadership, technical subject matter expertise, and competency development opportunities.

The research project will include an evaluation of leading edge cloud, mobile, and virtual application based solutions enabling the integration and/or mobility of CTC’s highly scalable Cross Domain Solutions.

Basic Qualifications:

• Qualifying applicants should have course expertise in software development and best practices.

• Should be capable of handling multiple roles (development of software, writing test plans and test cases, requirements traceability, leading test teams) in a team-based environment.

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science or related discipline.

• Must have course familiarity with object-oriented software design and development using languages such as VBA, Java, C and/or C++ and basic computer networking knowledge and Familiarity with iOS and Android development.

• Hadoop, Groovy, Graph Database, iOS, Android and MongoDB experience are considered a plus.

Clearance: U.S. Citizenship.
Join us! Qualified candidates should submit their resumes online at:

http://careers.ctc.com

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Reference Code: SR # 2014-0064
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