NOVEMBER 13 - NOVEMBER 20 NEWS JOIN OUR SLACK CHANNEL WECE now has a Slack channel! This will be a way to streamline communication between WECE members and committees, as well as a place for important announcements and upcoming events! Join our general channel here. Directors will be sending out more information to their committees about their committee channel. EVENTS TASTY THURSDAY Come hang out with WECE in an informal setting. Do your homework, paint your nails, build a robot… the possibilities are endless. Snacks will be provided! Where: ECEB RSO Office (1016) When: Thursday, November 16th, 3PM-5PM TECNICAL COMMITTEE MEETING Come out to our technical committtee meeting to help plan tech workshops and gain resume-worthy technical experience through completing hardware and software-centered projects with WECE! Where: ECEB 3017 When: Thursday, November 16th, 6PM-7PM EXTERNAL EVENTS LABORATORY INTERNSHIPS VIRTUAL EVENT Are you a student in STEM seeking real-world experience? Do you want to gain new skills, network with professionals, and experience life at a federal laboratory? Register for the Laboratory Internships Virtual Event today! L.I.V.E is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science and will take place on Nov. 28th from 12 noon – 4:00 pm EST. The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science is a vital agency for science and technology in the United States. DOE Office of Science is the largest supporter of research in the physical sciences and energy nationally, and manages ten national laboratories. DOE Office of Science is recruiting STEM students now for internships now! This event will take place at a computer or mobile device near you. Get excited about your career in STEM! Register today! THIEL FELLOWSHIP The Thiel Fellowship is a two-year program for young people who are building new things. The program offers $100,000 in an equity free grant, and allows the Thiel fellows the freedom to work on their company full time outside of school. To be eligible, one must be 22 or younger and without a college degree. For more information, please contact program manager Katy Strupp. OPTIVER FULL-TIME AND INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES Optiver is a derivatives trading firm in Chicago and we are currently looking for students in EE and CE who may be interested in an FPGA role. Both entry level and internship positions are available for this role. At Optiver, you will have the opportunity to: Plan and deliver new high speed FPGA designs Accelerate network infrastructure Identify new low-latency techniques for trading systems If you’re interested, take the leap today and APPLY! HALITE PROGRAMMING COMPETITION Come test your coding skills in Halite! Halite is an open source artificial intelligence programming challenge, created by Two Sigma, where players build bots using the coding language of their choice to battle on a two-dimensional virtual board. Register with your Github account to begin playing! Two Sigma has also created a virtual hackathon specifically for UIUC students running until November 15 that can be accessed with this access code: 6791620b231d42ee8aab67243c562856 VERILY SUMMER INTERNSHIP Verily will be accepting applications for summer internships from October 30th until February 28th. Apply directly at verily.com/careers. If you have any other questions, please email verily-students@google.com. 9TH POWER AND ENERGY CONFERENCE AT ILLINOIS (PECI) The Power and Energy Systems group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign cordially invites you to attend and present at the 9th Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI) which will be held in the I-Hotel at UIUC on February 22-23, 2018. Graduate student-organized and led, PECI fosters discourse broadly across the electric power and energy disciplines which include, but are not limited to: Power Electronics, Electric Power Systems, Energy Markets, Renewable Energy Technologies, Electric Machines and Drives, System Reliability and Control. Undergraduates who are involved in research are welcomed to present their work. Deadline for poster abstract submission is Nov 30, 2017. Registration for conference participation will be opened soon. More detailed information is available at http://peci.ece.illinois.edu or contact peci-publicity@illinois.edu. Where: I-Hotel When: February 22nd-23rd