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On-Campus Interviews offer students a chance to conveniently interview for professional positions on campus.  Employers travel to our campus for the specific purpose of interviewing preselected students for currently open positions.  This is a great opportunity to interview with employers specifically interested in UMBC students and offers the advantage of a smaller applicant pool.  Interviews take place during the fall and spring. The logistics (viewing positions, applying, signing up for interview time slots, etc.) are all handled via UMBCworks.

Don't miss out on employers coming to UMBC to recruit YOU this fall! The following is a list of employers coming to conduct on-campus interviews with application deadlines within the next month.

Mueller Associates, Inc.
Position:  Mechanical Engineer
Resume Submission End:  October 22, 2013

Morgan Stanley
Position:  Operations Analyst Program
Resume Submission End:  October 23, 2013

AOL/Advertising.com
Position:  Associate Tech Support Engineer
Resume Submission End:  October 24, 2013

Worthington Financial Partners
Position:  Sales Associate & Management Trainee
Resume Submission End:  October 24, 2013

A full list of On-Campus Interviews scheduled is available on our website calendar and on UMBCworks, please check regularly for any updates or changes that may occur.

Name:  Randi Williams

Internship, Co-op or Research Site: Jawbone (Code 2040)

Location of the Organization (City, State): San Francisco, CA

Major(s)/Minor(s):  Computer Engineering

Expected Graduation Year: 2016

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

During the working day I am at Jawbone, a San Francisco based start-up that makes incredible products and software to support it. My place at Jawbone is to support the web tools team in maintaining Jawbone's high quality website. Lately Jawbone has been undergoing a renovation of some of the older pages on the website and my assignments this summer include working with the design team to update these pages. My largest project involves completely redoing the Careers Page on the site.

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

The San Francisco start-up scene is totally different from the way business is done on the East Coast. Besides the obvious cultural differences working in a start-up is just a totally different experience. The company is doing very well but it is still in the growth stage meaning that everyone who works here is a vital part of the mission. Everyone has a job title and maybe a specific set of assignments to complete but there is so much room for interdisciplinary work. All of the teams get to merge and work together and I've found that my skills in a lot more than computer science are being sharpened this summer.

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

Unique to the Silicon Valley is the spirit of creativity and self-confidence. Everyone here is a dreamer and that is encouraged and highly rewarded. There are a lot of daily problems that people have and that they want to solve. Everyone is working to get their ideas and solutions out there by taking the initiative to drop everything and build it. I will go home with a piece of that energy in me, the entrepreneurial spirit that I can build things to make the world better. 

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

Come to Silicon Valley! There is so much here for students in every discipline and there is a lot of fun to be had and a lot to learn. I feel pumped up and motivated now to go back to school and be really successful.

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.

The most meaningful experience I am getting out of this summer is the amazing opportunity to be a CODE2040 Fellow. This program is all about getting more minorities, Latinos and Blacks in particular, involved in Silicon Valley. As a Fellow I have had the opportunity to talk to all kinds of leaders across the start-up world and ask them advice about how to get my career started when I am finished with school. These people are really busy running things like Facebook, Dropbox, Andreessen Horowitz, Twitter, and Square but they think that what CODE2040 is doing is important enough to have these deep, meaningful conversations about how even as a student I can think about things like how to build the next big app or website that is going to change the world.

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

Having the opportunity to intern this summer has set me on a trajectory to the stars.

The University of Maryland - Baltimore County Career Center kindly requests your participation in The WetFeet Career Benchmark. As a key partner to industry, University of Maryland - Baltimore County is one of only a select few of all educational institutions nationwide that were asked to have our students complete the survey.

Your participation helps to increase the visibility and marketability of University of Maryland - Baltimore County students to employers who recruit on campuses and helps the employers to work on a targeted approach when they recruit on our campus. Moreover, our office will be provided with a report detailing your aggregate responses (individual responses remain anonymous). This can help our office better serve you and focus on attracting the companies that better serve your interests.

Finally, you will be compensated for your time with a career toolbox that features two free career guides and a career profile with feedback to measure your aspirations against others among other incentives.

You can access the questionnaire directly here:
http://unisurv.co/312usss14

Many thanks for your participation!

Do you have any questions, something to share, or just difficulties with the link? Please send an email to: careerbenchmark@wetfeet.com

The Operating Units of Textron Systems currently have 2014 Internship positions posted on the Textron college recruiting site (collegejobs.textron.com).  These internship roles cover different disciplines such as: Engineering, Finance, Integrated Supply Chain, Information Technology, and general Business roles.  Please make sure you are reviewing these opportunities and applying for those roles in which you are interested and qualified.  The Operating Units of Textron Systems focus on providing both products and services that support our military and

are have locations throughout the United States including the following sites:

Wilmington, MA (Textron Defense Systems)

Baltimore, MD (AAI Corporation)

Charleston, SC  (AAI Corporation)

Huntsville, AL  (AAI Corporation)

Slidell, LA  (Textron Marine & Land)

Austin, TX  (AAI and Overwatch)

Williamsport, PA  (Lycoming)

We have internships at various locations supporting a wide range of functions within our business to include: 

•Business Development 

•Contracts 

•Engineering - Aerospace, Electrical, Test, Software, Systems, and Mechanical 

•Environment, Safety & Health 

•Finance 

•General Business 

•Human Resources 

•Information Assurance/Cyber Security 

•IT 

•Legal 

•Marketing & Communications 

•Network Engineering 

•Procurement 

•Production Planning 

•Project Administration 

•Quality Assurance 

•Research & Development Engineering 

•Security 

•Supply Chain Management 

•Technical Writing 

•Welding Engineering 

Submit your resume in UMBCworks and apply online at http://www.textron.com/careers/undergrads-graduates/index.php today!

Please note students must have a 3.2 and be a US Citizen/National to be considered.

Name:  Michael Moubarek 

Internship, Co-op or Research Site: UMBC Department of Biological Sciences

Location of the Organization (City, State): Baltimore, MD

Major(s)/Minor(s):  Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Expected Graduation Date (Month & Year): 2015

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

I have had the privilege of researching in the lab of Charles Bieberich, PhD. since January 2011.  It was my first research position but since then I've been thrust into the midst of multiple challenging research projects. My daily responsibilities include genotyping and maintaining mouse colonies. I also regularly perform dissections of mice to help characterize the progression of prostate cancer in transgenic mouse models. To date I have been involved in a drug trial and collaborative projects with other universities in the Baltimore area.

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

I have most enjoyed working with the people in our lab. We have many different people from around the world who have a bevvy of interests and talents. Everyone brings an immense amount of specialized knowledge and elements of uniqueness to the lab and I often find myself deep in conversation or doubled over in stitches with laughter. It has been so easy to work past the accents and different cultures to pursue scientific discovery together. I wouldn't have it any other way and I truly believe that the dynamic in our lab would allow us to tackle any problem successfully in our field of focus.

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

Dr. Bieberich believes in challenging undergraduates with graduate level research opportunities and often tasks undergraduate students with their own project and a fair amount of autonomy.  This can be intimidating especially when you want results but I thoroughly enjoy the challenge and it keeps me busy and ever-learning.

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

Take the time to talk to upperclassmen who have conducted research in your field about what they learned and how they sought out their internship. Find labs that focus on something that you find interesting, make a short list, and take the time to read the papers published by the lab. When you contact the principal investigator be respectful yet persistent. Many investigators are extremely busy and receive many requests to join their labs so find a way to make yourself positively stand out. If you receive an offer and end up working in a lab pay close attention to the details, be inquisitive, and always go above and beyond.

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.

My experience has instilled within me a confidence that with the right team, a little ingenuity, and enough hard work nothing is impossible. I have gone from not knowing how to conduct basic research and being clueless in a wet lab setting to training other undergraduate students excelling in lab work in little over a year. The valuable foundation of lab and animal care skills that I have developed will allow me to chase my dreams without worrying too much about a lot of the details of the work. The incredible mentoring from Dr. Bieberich has been a real blessing and I cannot thank him enough for investing in me.

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

Take advantage of all the opportunities open to you at this point and your life. Pick something and run with it until you fail then pick something else and repeat.