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From: A10035@email.mot.com (Scott Lindsey)
Subject: Several Ph.D./Mstrs Positons avail.
Organization: Motorola Corp. Man. Res. Ctr.
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 12:14:34 GMT

The Motorola Corporate Manufacturing Research Center in Schaumburg, IL
(suburb of Chicago) has several openings available for outstanding
Ph.D. candidates in the areas listed below.

All of these are for people who are HANDS ON. The group is "lean and mean."
Aspirations of managing a group of people who will do all of the work should
be disposed of. (Although, excellent performance could lead to such
a position) All positions offer excellent visibility within the corporation
and opportunities for interaction with other Motorola sites.

The areas include:

-Reliability and Quality modeling. Includes date acquistion, analysis and 
 modeling of data obtained at CMRC and elsewhere on advanced interconnect 
 technologies including Direct Chip Attach, C4, COB, and thin film interconnect
 (for example Temperature/Bias/Humidity, thermal cycling, etc. => as it relates
 to package and product quality and reliability). Ph.D in
 science/engineering discipline required.

-Optical Interconnect/Display - Inter and intra board signal interconnect via
 free space or waveguide technologies. Display backlight development. Hands 
 on lab experience in thin film optical waveguide required. Ph.D. or Masters
 with significant experience required.


-System Design - Work on system level strategies to incorporate advanced
 packaging technologies. Knowledge and experience in VHDL simulations, chip
 level behavioral models development and applications, mixed mode digital/
 analog systems simulations required. Ideal candidates will have experience on 
 Mentor Graphics tools. Ph.D. in EE required.

-Electronic Materials - analysis and formulation of materials for advanced
 packaging technologies. Strong chemistry and materials background a MUST.
 Ph.D. in organic/polymer chemistry required.

Please respond ASAP. Please send Vita, Vitae, or whatever to:

Karl Wyatt, Ph.D.
Motorola Corporate Manufacturing Research Center
1301 E. Algonquin Rd, Rm. 1014
Schaumburg, IL
60196
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From: cpsigd01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
Subject: Re: Northerners moving south - questions
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:05:30 GMT
Organization: University of Louisville
Followup-To: misc.jobs.misc

In article <Jan.1.10.09.23.1993.17564@cadenza.rutgers.edu>, masticol@cadenza.rutgers.edu (Steve Masticola) writes:
> I'm investigating a couple of job leads in the South - too many places
> to mention meaningfully - and would like to hear from any Northerners
> who've made such a move
> 
> Specifically, have you had trouble with the, ah, insularity of the
> natives? Was it possible to adjust after a period of time, or is one
> always pegged as a damyankee? It seems like a serious quality-of-life
> issue. 
> 
> Thanks for the help,
We moved from Minnesota about 23 years ago.  It took sometime before we
could call it 'home'.  Home is always were we grew up.  The adjustment 
was insignificant because most professionals were from the North.  The
'natives' are very friendly.  The main problem was our extended family which
are a days drive from here.  The kids being born here consider it their 
home and so do we now. 
Some distinct advantages are the cost of living.  You will find it much 
cheaper to live than in the North.  Your housing costs will be significantly
less.  If you are trading houses, you can significantly increase the amount of
house for the same $.  Good Luck. 
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From: hougen@focus.csl.uiuc.edu (Darrell Roy Hougen)
Newsgroups: sci.research.careers
Subject: Vita or Vitae?
Date: 8 Jan 1993 21:31:07 GMT
Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Summary: Should one write vita or vitae?
Keywords: vita

Should one write "vita" or "vitae"?  The reason I ask is that usage
seems to be very inconsistent.  I was flipping through a recent issue
of "Communications of the ACM" and found phrases such as:

	(1) submit curriculum vitae
	(2) submit a curriculum vitae
	(3) submit a curriculum vita
	(4) submit curricula vitae

Previous posts on this list contained the same inconsistencies.  What
is a poor job applicant to think when prospective employers can't even
agree on usage?  And, most of the ads were by universities!!!  Perhaps
no one knows Latin any more.  I don't.  But my brief encounters with
the language tell me that (3) is probably correct and that (4) might
be where (3) means submit one and (4) means submit several.  As I
understand it, "vita" is singular and "vitae" is plural.  That's what
my dictionary says.  The question is whether one list of work, etc.,
is a vita because it is *one* list or vitae because it is a list
containing multiple entries.  I opt for the former but I would like to
hear from someone that knows.

Darrell R. Hougen
From: lenore@mullin.cs.umr.edu (Dr. Lenore Mullin)
Subject: CS Faculty Position
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:23:30 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri-Rolla, Missouri's Technological University

  The Department of Computer Science at the University of
  Missouri-Rolla is seeking qualified applicants to join an 
  aggressive, interdisciplinary, group of faculty in Computational
  Mathematics for parallel and distributed computing.  Applicants
  for a junior position must demonstrate evidence of their ability
  to perform research and have had prior involvement in group
  research activities, must have a PhD in a relevant area, and must
  have a strong interest in both teaching and research.  Applicants
  for a senior position must have a demonstrated record of research
  and funding emphasizing research team leadership as the principal
  investigator.  The position is tenure-track. The successful 
  candidate will be expected to contribute to the Departmental
  research effort and to the interdisciplinary research effort.


  The Department grants the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees.   The
  Ph.D.  program has been active since 1977 and the Department
  currently has 102 graduate students.  Departmental research is
  growing with current funding above half a million dollars.  Major
  computing facilities include an Intel iPSC/2 16 processor multi-
  computer, and SUN equipment in the Departmental Experimental 
  Computation Laboratory (ECL), and high-function Unix-based 
  workstations (NeXT, SUN, and IBM) for faculty and students.  
  Interdisciplinary research activities exist in the UMR Intelligent 
  Systems Center and faculty members in the Department may become Research
  Investigators in this Center.


  The University of Missouri-Rolla is the primary science and
  engineering campus of the University of Missouri system; it
  currently has an enrollment of 5000+ students. UMR is situated in
  a non-urban environment in the Ozarks.  St. Louis is 1 1/2 hours
  away via interstate highway.  Salary is competitive with 
  Big-10/Big-8 universities.


       The committee will begin reviewing applications on April 1,
  1993.  Applicants should send a vita and a statement of research
  and teaching interests, and arrange to have three letters of
  reference sent to: Dr. Lenore Mullin Faculty Search Committee,
  Department of Computer Science, University of Missouri-Rolla,
  Rolla, MO  65401, (314)-341-4491 (csdept@cs.umr.edu)

    UM-Rolla is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer
  and especially encourages applications from both minorities and women.
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From: kinsler@newton.physics.uq.oz.au (Paul Kinsler)
Subject: Re: Why GPAs?  (was Re: GPA/grades)
Organization: Physics Dept. The University of Queensland
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 23:40:25 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.155648.10523@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes) writes:
>>    hougen@focus.csl.uiuc.edu (Darrell Roy Hougen) writes:
>>    >Most universities in the USA opperate on a 4 point schedule so that no
>>    >one can get 4.5.  Some, such as the University of Illinois, opperate
>>    >on a 5 point scale.  Others opperate on the 3 point scale (I've
>>    >heard).  So, you'll have to take this into account when making
>>    >comparisons.
>>    
>>    This brings up a question I've always had: why do we use this
>>    asinine(*) system of grading when there is no global consensus on how
>>    it's normalized, and every institution I've ever heard of just takes
>>    the marks out of 100 (or letter grades) and converts them to grade
>>    points?  Why not just skip the step and have everyone use grades out of
>>    100?

Why - well, there is no significant difference between someone who gets
70 and 75% in the same test - on a different day, or with slightly different 
questions, their marks are bound to change. You *can't* say: Mary got 88%, 
so she is 4% better than Susan at MP210. Thats why they grade, and don't
use the raw %age. This agrgument has been well beaten to death in Australia and
NewZealand recently over grading of secondary school exams. Using %age's
just gives a bogus impression of accuracy.

However, I must say that a 3, 4, or 5 point scale is too small if they
refer to pass and fail grades. Here at University of Queensland they
use a 7point scale, where a bare pass is 4 and 7 is top, which I think
is probably the largest increment you would want. At University of
Auckland, where I did my MSc, they did A+-,B+-... etc, with a total
of 9 pass grades. 

>>    [...]
-- 
+soluble fish+
"You people, you do not see the grandeur in the wind and stone and stars,
 in the blood and fire and iron - but paint only the flowers."
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From: etaylor@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Euan R. Taylor)
Subject: GPA/grades
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:12:14 GMT

Dear all I am looking for stats on the north american GPA system and the
british grading system, for university degrees.
What I want to know is what % of students get 4.5, 4.0, 3.5, 3.0, 2.5,
GPA's and similarly what % get a first, upper second, lower second, third
in the british system.
I know there is an "official" conversion system but from the little I know
about the percentages I suspect the simple official system is really not
that meaningful, qnd I would like to find out what the percentages are so
I can judge for myself.
Second question, of the people who apply to Oxford/Cambridge in the UK,
what proportin get in, and how does this compare to other Universities?

Any info appreciated.

etaylor@ccu.umanitoba.ca
From: hougen@focus.csl.uiuc.edu (Darrell Roy Hougen)
Newsgroups: sci.research.careers
Subject: Re: Vita or Vitae?
Date: 9 Jan 1993 21:17:14 GMT
Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
NNTP-Posting-Host: focus.csl.uiuc.edu
Keywords: vita, vitae, vitum

ian@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Ian Parberry) writes:

% Don't be silly.  A university is an abstraction.  Abstractions don't place
% job ads.  The ad was placed by a university employee, usually the department
% chair or a member of the hiring committee.  These people are usually
% overworked and underpaid, so trivial mistakes like this are common and
% acceptable.

I know, I know, but ...

%  After all, you understand what they meant, didn't you?

Sure, and I hope they would be as understanding if I wrote "CURRICULUM
VITA" on the top of my curriculum vitae.

Darrell
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From: marty@amaterasu.physics.uiuc.edu (Marty Gelfand)
Subject: Re: More post-doc spots in our future?
Organization: Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 04:18:42 GMT

In article <1993Jan9.011554.6092@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> chohan@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Harpal Chohan) writes:
>In article <C0K8rx.2rL@news.cso.uiuc.edu> frenkel@stcst1.mrl.uiuc.edu (David Frenkel) writes:
>>
>>   At least in physics, postdocs are paid at least twice
>>   as much as graduate students, and are much more
>
>Err, they're full time employees too, whereas graduate students typically
>have 50% appointments. So, basically they're still getting paid at 
>the same rate as a graduate student, aren't they?
>
  Not really.  Once students pass the admission to candidacy
exam (or whatever it's called at your favorite university) they're
working full time on research even if the appointment is formally
'50%'.  (Unless the advisor can't pay them, in which case its whatever
time it takes for teaching, the rest on research.)
  Marty Gelfand  marty@amaterasu.physics.uiuc.edu
From: purtill@idacrd.UUCP (Mark Purtill)
Newsgroups: sci.research.careers
Subject: Re: More post-doc spots in our future?
Date: 11 Jan 93 16:41:57 GMT
Organization: idacrd, princeton, nj

frenkel@stcst1.mrl.uiuc.edu (David Frenkel) writes:

>In article <josh.726531467@pogo> josh@pogo.cqs.washington.edu (Josh Hayes) writes:
>>"... Postdocs,
>>who are paid little more and carry no tuition overhead, would
>>be likely to take their place in the lab (_Science_, 28 August
>>1992, p. 1201)."
>   At least in physics, postdocs are paid at least twice
>   as much as graduate students, and are much more
>   expensive to a faculty member.
	I this counting the tuition or not?  The original article
refered to places like MIT with absurd tuition rates, so that might
make up for the difference in salary if the faculty's grants were
charged at the full rate.  (For example, a couple of years ago, MIT
tuition was $15K+/9mo.)  At places with less outrageous tuitions, the
impact would be less, of course.

^.-.^ Mark Purtill, purtill@ccr-p.ida.org || purtill%idacrd@uunet.uu.net
((")) \@_: IDA/CCR-P, Thanet Road, Princeton NJ  08540;  (609) 924-4600.
Alternate email: purtill%idacrd@princeton.edu UUCP: uunet!idacrd!purtill
From: ljhr@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu
Newsgroups: sci.research.careers
Subject: Re: Undergrad vs Masters GPA
Date: 10 Jan 93 06:52:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: gnv.1993Jan10.115249.2031

My undergrad GPA was lower than my Master's GPA by almost a full point.  What
seemed to be important to the admissions committees was the fact that my grades
as an undergrad greatly improved in my last 2 years as opposed to the first 2
years.  I'd say that it depends on what university to apply to.  That's the
wisdom of applying to several schools.
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From: josh@pogo.cqs.washington.edu (Josh Hayes)
Newsgroups: sci.research.careers
Subject: More post-doc spots in our future?
Date: 8 Jan 93 22:17:47 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
NNTP-Posting-Host: pogo.cqs.washington.edu

An interesting little snippet in _Science_ (18 December). There
was an article about proposed revisions in indirect cost accounting
(otherwise known as "overhead", in the grant business), and it
is suggested that one change could change the makeup of the 
typical lab-intensive, uh, lab:

"Another change in the proposed revisions is likely to be felt
most by engineering and science graduate students at MIT,
Caltech, Columbia, and Stanford. Those four universities have
traditionally mixed the tuition of students working on research
projects into the benefit pool for all university employees.
That way, researchers could hire more graduate students than
their grants could actually support, with the university as a
whole underwriting the extra expense. Under the OMB proposal,
however, all universities will have to phase in a system by
1997 in which they charge such tuition costs directly to the
project the students are working on. At the four universities
where the tuition costs were distributed, this would mean fewer
jobs for graduate students--and thus fewer students. Postdocs,
who are paid little more and carry no tuition overhead, would
be likely to take their place in the lab (_Science_, 28 August
1992, p. 1201)."

quoted without permission from the 18 December issue, p. 1874.

And so post-docs are relegated to an even lower status than they
already hold....I don't like this trend....

Josh Hayes

--
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  josh@mowgli.cqs.washington.edu             206 543-5004
       And I feel that the world should come with me
         When I rise through a crack in the Earth
From: jabraham@acs.ucalgary.ca (John Abraham)
Newsgroups: sci.research.careers
Subject: Re: Undergrad vs Masters GPA
Date: 12 Jan 93 15:38:53 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta

In article <75140001@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> loftis@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Kirk Loftis) writes:
>
>I have consistently seen that people have a full point higher GPA in
>during their Masters Degree over their Undergraduated.  
>
No one should care what your masters GPA is anyway - unless it
happens to be a course based masters.  For a thesis based
masters you should be judged on your thesis.

-- John
From: davec@ecst.csuchico.edu (Dave Childs)
Newsgroups: sci.research.careers
Subject: Undergrad vs Masters GPA
Date: 9 Jan 93 01:48:45 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
NNTP-Posting-Host: cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu

I have heard that your undergrad GPA is sometimes more important than
your masters GPA to Ph.D admissions people.  I am wondering if this 
is really true.  In my case, I didn't do so well as an undergrad but
got my act together and have a significantly (over a full point) 
higher graduate GPA.  Am I still doomed?  

Also, is it possible to go to a Ph.D granting university and take
classes without official acceptance into a Ph.D program.  Could 
you use this as a way to convince a university that you really
are qualified (assuming, of course, you really are)?

In case it matters, my undergrad is in Comp. Sci.  My Master
will also be in Comp. Sci. and I am considering a PhD in Comp.
Sci.

Thanks for any information you can give,
Dave Childs

-- 
____________________________________________________________________________
David Childs                      (davec@ecst.csuchico.edu)
Grad Student -> California State University, Chico
Sftwr. Engr. -> SSG, Inc. (A medical software firm)
From: elm@cs.berkeley.edu (ethan miller)
Newsgroups: sci.research.careers
Subject: Re: Vita or Vitae?
Date: 8 Jan 93 13:57:52
Organization: Berkeley--Shaken, not Stirred
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In-reply-to: hougen@focus.csl.uiuc.edu's message of 8 Jan 1993 21:31:07 GMT

In article <1ikrqrINNnff@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu> hougen@focus.csl.uiuc.edu (Darrell Roy Hougen) writes:
=>	(1) submit curriculum vitae
=>	(2) submit a curriculum vitae
=>	(3) submit a curriculum vita
=>	(4) submit curricula vitae

As far as I know, (2) and (4) are reasonable possibilities.  (3) is
definitely out.  In Latin, "vitae" is indeed the plural of "vita," but
it's also the genitive form (often used as a possessive).  (2) would
mean a curriculum of life, and that's probably the right one.  (4)
would be right if "curriculum" were supposed to be plural.

ethan
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From: ljhr@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu
Newsgroups: sci.research.careers
Subject: Re: Northerners moving south - questions
Date: 8 Jan 93 09:31:25 -0500

I've lived in the south for over ten years now.  I moved from Pennsylvania to
Tennessee, thence to Alabama, Louisiana, and Florida.  I've seen lots of people
move into this region.  Some have had an easy time of it, some not.

Generally, the people here are like folks anywhere:  trerat them with courtesy
and respect and you'll get the same back.  Act like you're better than them
simply because you happen to have been born a few degrees of latitude to the
north of them and you won't be accorded much in the way of good vibes.

You can do a lot to help to integrate yourself into the community by simply
being a part of the group.  Don't whine about the regional cuisine, greens,
okra, red beans, ham, chitterlings (chitlins), and other such foods won't kill
you, and you just might like them.  If you want to find other kinds of food,
you can finsd it in the south.

Don't constantly complain about accents.  The first time you say something, it
will probably ber taken as a joke.  Continued harping about how you 'just can't
understand the accent' will get old quickly.  Remember, YOU are the one with
the accent here.

I've run into very little outright hostility from southerners, even in the back
country of Alabama and Louisiana, or the Tennessee mountains.  Then again, I've 
tried to integrate myself.  Many people haven't realized that I'm not a native
southerner until I tell them, mostly because I'm not complaining about how
great everything was back up north.  Native Floridians (an endangered race)
have a saying, "If you love New York, take I-95 north!"

I'm seeking to relocate to western Virginia or southeastern West Virginia for
personal reasons, but I've quite enjoyed my time here in the deep south. 
There's nothing to fefar, really.  If you get a decent offer, there won't be a
gauntlet to rednecks with axe handles and shotguns waiting to chase down and
lynch you as you cross the Maryland state line.
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From: bechtler@asdg.enet.dec.com (Laurie Bechtler)
Subject: Re: Undergrad vs Masters GPA
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:50:58 GMT


>I have consistently seen that people have a full point higher GPA in
>during their Masters Degree over their Undergraduated.  
> 

From my experience, grading in grad school is 100% different from
undergrad.  There are A's, B's and C's, with C considered very very
bad, so that if you were close to getting a C the prof might talk
to you about dropping the course.  In some cases the profs graded in
A's and B's only, just because it was a grad course.  The atmosphere
is so different from undergrad -- small classes, the profs and students
all know each other, the profs have certain relationships with the
students' advisors, etc.  Sometimes the homework and tests were miserably
difficult, with most students not getting much of it completely right,
but the course grading would be all A's and B's anyway, as if to say
that the process of trying to figure out this difficult subject was
the important part.  (Which is to a large extent true.)  Professors
seemed to let the comprehensive exams weed students out, not the courses.

The school didn't calculate a GPA for grad students, as if in recognition
of this situation.

So as an employed professional, I look on all grad school GPA's with
suspicion.  Another thing some grad students like to do is add in
their research hours to their GPA.  Well, of COURSE their advisor gave
them A's for those hours, leading to an inflated GPA.

Laurie
DEC

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