CS 3011: Industry Forum — Spring 2016

Fridays, 10:45am-11:35am   MEB 3147 (LCR)

Organizer: Kobus Van der Merwe (kobus@cs.utah.edu)

Schedule (subject to change)

Date Speaker Topic
1/15 Maddi Tapp
University of Utah Career Services
Career Planning
1/22 No regular speaker
Please attend the Goldman Sachs Distinguished Lecture Series
1/29 Jeff Christensen
EntryPoint Networks
Entrepreneurship is about building a company - not about having an idea
2/5 Kobus Van der Merwe
University of Utah, School of Computing
Is Grad School Right for You?
2/12 Parker Wightman and James Judd
Lucidchart
Case study of building an iOS app that got featured with the iOS 9 release in the app store
2/19 Bill Yetman
Ancestry
Breaking up Ancestry's Monolith - Our journey from a monolith to a distributed system
2/26 Joe Turner
TaskEASY
What did I wish I knew when I left school.
3/4 Travis Cooper
Spillman Technologies
Using Software to Fight Crime and Save Lives
3/11 Andres Arias
TrueNorthLogic
Continuous Integration
3/18 Spring Break - No meeting
3/25 Major Hancock and Captain Moulton
U.S. Air Force, UofU Air Force ROTC
Cyber Warfare and the U.S. Air Force
4/1 Nate Smith
Chargeback
The big rewrite
4/8 Jon Morrey
FamilySearch
Putting the 'R' back in R&D
4/15 Darrin Lythgoe
MyHeritage, Next Generation Software
Next Generation: My one-person software company
4/22 TBD


About the Class

Industry Forum is designed to expose students to topics that are not discussed in depth as part of the normal curriculum, but that are likely to be important after they graduate. Each week one or more guest speakers, typically local and national business leaders, will give a talk and answer questions on a topic of interest to them. Topics will run the gamut from the highly career oriented (e.g., how to write a resume and interview or how to decide if graduate school is right for you) to the highly technical (e.g., how video special effects are generated or how software development organizations manage complex system development). The objective of the course is for students to understand what kinds of careers are available after graduation and how students should be preparing beyond their coursework.


Assignments and Grading

For each class meeting, each student should submit a talk evaluation as described here. Students must hand in (at least) ten written evaluations. Assignments are due at the start of the following week's class. Turn them in via the course Canvas page.

In addition, each student must write a 5-page final report on a topic related to the course, e.g., an overview of what you learned/liked/disliked, a more detailed study of a subject that one of the speakers raised, etc. The 5-page final report is due on the last day of classes and needs to be submitted via Canvas.


Course communication

Course communication will be done via Canvas.


Applying CS 3011 Towards Your CS Electives

EAE students will not be able to count CS 3011 (or any one- or two-credit courses) as an elective.

For regular CS students, CS 3011 can be applied towards a CS elective course requirement, and you can retake CS 3011 for credit up to three times.

Seven CS electives, 3+ credits each, 3000-level or higher are required for the regular CS track. Six (6) full CS courses (3-4 cr) must be taken. The 7th course may be any combination of Senior Capstone Design, CS 3011, CS 3020, CS 4010, CS 4190 or CS 5040 (up to three credits). Four-credit classes cannot be combined with one or two-credit courses to equal the final elective.


College of Engineering Academic Guidelines

You can read about the College of Engineering's policies on appeals, withdrawing from courses, and repeating courses here.


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