CS 3011 - Industry Forum - Spring 2013

Fri 11:50-12:40PM, MEB 3147 (Large Conference Room)


Organizer: Matthew Flatt
3458 Merrill Engineering Building
Office phone: 801-587-9091
Email: mflatt@cs.utah.edu

The 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.


Schedule (subject to change)

Date Speaker Topic
1/11 Canceled due to weather
1/18 Nick Seegmiller and Travis Cooper
Spillman Technologies
Using Software to Fight Crime and Save Lives
1/25 Calvin Gaisford and Boyd Timothy
Appigo
Starting an iPhone Software Company
2/1 Joe Sindad
UofU Career Services
Career Planning
2/8 Glenn Thimmes and Josh Hanks
New Dawn
Choose your own adventure — Selecting the right place to work, becoming a great developer, and a day in the life of a developer at New Dawn Technologies
2/15 John Regehr Is Grad School Right for You?
2/22 John Ogilvie
Ogilvie Law Firm
A Primer on Intellectual Property Law
3/1 James Menegos
IRS
IT in the IRS
3/8 Kris Johnson
Smart Bomb Interactive
Today's Video Game Industry — Evolution and Opportunities
3/22 Fritz Onion
PluralSight
Life long learning for software engineers
3/29 Reza Jalili
Adobe
Adobe: Media and Marketing Software
4/5 Ross Solomon
The Climate Corporation
Engineering for Climate Change
4/12 Bryan Hinton
Health Catalyst
How Data and Software are contributing to the transformation of healthcare
4/19 Ben Dilts and Alma Madsen
Lucidchart
Scala: It's like Java, only awesome


Previous semesters:Spring 2012  
Spring 2011  
 Spring 2010 Fall 2009
 Spring 2009 Fall 2008
 Spring 2008 Fall 2007
 Spring 2007  
 Spring 2006  
 Spring 2005  


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 email to the organizer.

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.


Mailing List

Once you are enrolled in the course, signup for the class email list (cs3011@list.eng.utah.edu) ASAP. You may do so via https://sympa.eng.utah.edu/sympa/info/cs3011.


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.