Research, Experience and Career Students Symposiums (RECSS)

The Research, Experience and Career Students Symposiums are a series of student and faculty presentations hosted by the Computer Science & Engineering Mentoring Program.

Presentations can be about internship experiences, research and thesis projects,and any other topic related to a student’s experience. They serve to promote research in our field, expose students to new research ideas and possibly encourage students and faculty to work together on a particular topic. They are a perfect way for current students and faculty to be aware of what others are working on and what type of experiences they had.

Students and faculty from all departments are invited since most of the topics could have an implementation on more than one field. The RECSS also serve as a step-stone for students and faculty of different majors to work together on different aspects of a topic and ultimately expose different sides of the Computer Science and Engineering fields.

Since Fall 2006 we associated the RECSS with a new logo, so that students and faculty could better identify our presentations. We wanted to create something simple (basic shape, such as a cube, sphere, etc.), but at the same time something that would stand out. We were also looking for something that everybody could easily relate to, so the idea of the Rubik's cube came to our mind. A high number of individuals have played with it or at least have seen it and identify it. The cube has math origins and it is a device that can be used to develop minds and to understand a variety of concepts such as permutations. In the RECSS we have a very similar objective, we want students to think of RECSS as a device they can use to learn about the CS and Engineering fields.

Here is a list of interesting facts about Rubik's cube

• A Normal (3x3x3) Rubik's Cube can have 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 permutations.
• The first world championship was held in Budapest on June 5, 1982 and was won by Minh Thai, a Vietnamese student from Los Angeles, with a time of 22.95 seconds.

RECSS are held every Tuesday from 12 - 1 at ENGR 1.272.

Presentations in Spring 2007

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Presentations in Fall 2006

• October 3: Career Placement Services - Ricardo Ramirez (ENGR & CS Placement Specialist)
• October 10: Scholarship Information - Martha Muniz (ENGR Undergraduate Advisor).
• October 17: Human Powered still water (Sr. Project) - Mechanical engineering students.
• October 24: Voltage and Current Harmonics of Non-Linear Loads (EE Research) - Viridiana Martinez (EE graduate student).
• October 31: Opportunities in Nanotechnology - Dr. Karen Lozano (Associate Professor: Mechanical Engineering)
  
  
• November 7: The Nano Team - Mechanical, manufacturing & electrical students.
• November 14: Rapid Prototyping in Design - Dr. Rajiv Nambiar (Associate Professor from the Manufacturing Engineering)
• November 21: Antenna watching - Dr. Foltz (EE department chair).
• November 28: Programming Strategies - Mark Lagunez (CS Senior).
  
  
• December 5: Nanomanufacturing - Dr. Sarkar ( Manufacturing Engineering department).

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