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IEEE@IIT invites National Instruments, Goldman Sachs to campus

Swasti Khuntia
LAYOUT EDITOR

Last week has been a busy week for
IEEE@IIT. IEEE@IIT organized a series of
events on and off-campus which includes their
second general meeting of the Fall semester,
invited companies like National Instruments
and Goldman Sachs to the campus, and also
organized a tour to the Microsoft Technology
Center in downtown Chicago.

The second general meeting was held
on October 9 in Wishnick Hall Auditorium.
As promised in the first general meeting, this
meeting aimed to notify the students about the

work being done by IEEE@IIT and the main
attraction was National Instruments. Mehdi
Ganji, President of the IEEE Chapter at IIT
welcomed the students, IEEE faculty adviser Dr.
Chi Zou and the representative from National
Instruments.

Mehdi spoke about the benefits
being a member of IEEE by citing the example
of recent achievement by IIT students in the
Regional Leadership Conference. Members
of the group Gabriel Vlas, Rohit Agarwal and
Swasti R. Khuntia were present in the meeting.
Swasti spoke to the students about their
experience in the conference.

Juan Wang, Project Chair of IEEE@
IIT gave an overview of the current four projects

 

 

which are being sponsored by IEEE and IIT
together. She also asked the students to join any
project they like as it would give them a wide
exposure in the competitive world. She also
announced two new projects. One of them is
the “Raspberry Pi” project which is sponsored
by the Galvin Center for Electricity Innovation.
The other project is the “Kinect” project which
would be sponsored by Microsoft.

Mehdi announced the first tour of fall
semester to the Microsoft Technology Center
which was held on Friday, October 11, 2013.
He also announced the guest speaker session
by Goldman Sachs on “Enterprise Product
Engineering” which was held on the evening
of Wednesday, October 9, 2013. After the

talk, he invited Mr. Dave Collins of National
Instruments to deliver his talk on “From the
Other Side of the Table: Lessons in Corporate
Recruiting from a New Hire.”

Dave gave a short demo of the
various NI products, and discussed the journey
of NI in past decades. Citing the example of
the famous NI-RIO (Reconfigurable I/O),
he said that students can benefit from the
automation controller in their projects. He
also demonstrated one use of that controller.
Then he advised the students about recruiting
policies of NT and how to prepare oneself. At the
end, Dave interacted with students about future
prospects in NI. Overall, it was an informative
and interactive session.

 

 

 

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