On September 1st, the ACM had its first meeting to celebrate their new office/lounge and kick off the school year.  Over 30 prospective members enjoyed a free lunch as Chair Jeremy Rehkop laid out the plans for upcoming events, career fairs, and speakers.  Afterwords, students chatted with current ACM members about the International Collegiate Programming Contest, founder Robert Ward’s bike ride to fight Multiple Sclerosis, and the distinguished speakers series the ACM will continue to host through the year.  Overall, a resounding success: students exhibited enthusiasm for the new more spacious office and the semester's schedule.

The WSU Student Chapter of ACM took first place in the upper and lower level division in the International Collegiate Programming Competition (ICPC) exhibition held at Eastern Washington University in February.

The winning team included juniors Travis Gomez and Bryan Wisdom for the upper level division. Jeffrey Tremaine and Phillip Marshall took first place in the lower level division. Jeremy Rehkop, Nick Lewis, and Matt Miller also participated in the competition. All WSU teams were coached by Shariful Shaikot, a PhD student of the Computer Science Department, who planned and held training sessions for the competitors bi-weekly during the past semesters with the guidance of Dr. Carl Hauser.

Friday, February 20th at 5:00 pm in Carpenter 102

Distributing Your Software With An Open Source License

With Google Senior Product Attorney Rebecca Ward
You've coded up a great application and now you want to unleash it on the world.
What are the different open source licenses you can use?
What are the differences between them?
How can somebody make money by giving away something for free, anyway?

Skills For A Successful Computer Science Career In the Field of Engineering

With Randy Berry of AREVA T&D
Start thinking about your career now!
What skills do I need to build a sound foundation for advancement?
How should I navigate the different career paths in Engineering and Management?
How can I maintain the work life balance I'm looking for?

Refreshments will be at the intermission between Speakers

Presented by Professor Carl Hauser
ETRL 101

The Python programming language is increasingly popular for rapidly developing web applications, system administration tools, and cross platform desktop applications.

In this introduction Dr. Hauser will describe important features of the language that make it fun to use and show you how you can get started developing with Python.

Free Pizza and Soda!

Room: Sloan 150

The ACM WSU Student Chapter presents:
The Interview Process and the Importance of Internships
with WSU Alum Rick Hoover

Mr. Rick Hoover graduated from WSU with an MSEE with an emphasis in computer engineering courses. After graduation, he was employed at HP for 18 years as an engineer, architect, and manager. He's had extensive experience in balancing hardware and firmware to achieve the best cost/performance ratio. From 2000 to 2005, he was the head of recruit for HP at WSU. Since 2005, he's co-founded a start-up in Moscow called Computer Measurement Laboratory and founded All Terrain Software.

Rick Hoover will be talking about the importance of internships, the interview process and how important it is for EE to know CS concepts and vice versa. See you there!

Room: Carpenter 102

Last year WSU sent two teams up to Spokane to compete in the Intercollegiate Programming Competition (ICPC). Our senior team won first place for the site, however we didn’t place high enough to advance. This year we’re back and sending three teams to Eastern Washington University in Cheney to try again! For more information on the competition, the home page is http://cm2prod.baylor.edu or click “ICPC Information” on the left.

Representing the Seniors:

Brian Lidstrom, Nathan Schubkegel, and Alex Hortin

Representing the Juniors:

Jeremy Rehkop, Nick Lewis, and Matt Miller

Representing the Sophomores/Freshmen:

Ellery Barron, Jessica Taylor, Jeffrey Tremaine, and Phillip Marshall

Rick Hoover

Room: Sloan 175

Mr. Rick Hoover graduated from WSU with an MSEE with an emphasis in computer engineering courses. After graduation, he was employed at HP for 18 years as an engineer, architect, and manager. He's had extensive experience in balancing hardware and firmware to achieve best price/performance. From 2000 to 2005, he was the head of recruit for HP at WSU. Since then, he's co-founded a start-up in Moscow called Computer Measurement Laboratory and founded All Terrain Software.

Rick Hoover will be talking about how important it is for EE to know CS concepts and vice versa. He'll go about this by talking about timing equipment for various races. These systems are a hybrid of both hardware and firmware.

Meeting Thursday 4:30 Thurs Sloan 150

• Greeting New members
• ICPC Report Jeremy
• GDC Report Phil
• Replace AK as Event Coodinator for Spring(Search)
• Name Tag Label Demo Robert
• IEEE Career Fair AK,Robert
• Upcoming Events
• Student Forum
• Tshirt Update Dale (never fail)
• Other Business

The ACM assisted with the Fall CEA Technical Career Fair by providing a new service for students. In previous years student would use a hand written adhesive nametag to help employer identify themselves. To make student look more professional and help recruiters quickly identify the majors they were looking to hire, the ACM provided printed nametags for any student that wanted one(and who in their right mind wouldn’t want a spiffy nametag).