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Innovative Engineering

By Liz Dubret

This summer I participated in an Immersion Design Experience (IDE) through the SMU Innovation Gym. I spent ten days and ten nights with seven other SMU students creating a wireless sensor network. We partnered with bcWorkshop, a local non-profit, to help them find a better way to measure living standards within a community. At the end of the experience, our team had eaten six boxes of double stuffed Oreos, soldered for over 24 hours straight, and designed a working prototype collecting noise levels within a community. We even designed and implemented the algorithms to filter the noise and tell which areas of the neighborhood were the loudest and what was causing the noise! It was a great experience and I really enjoyed learning a real-world application to all of my classes.

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Wanted: Video Game Tester

Post author By Ryan Herrscher
Post date November 5, 2012
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By Billy Hightower

Today was awesome! This summer I was bored one day so I decided to log on to MustangTrak to look for any job opportunities. After applying to a couple of internships there was one in particular that caught my eye…VIDEO GAME TESTER. I quickly submitted all my information to this potential opportunity and I got a call last week asking me to come to the SMU in Plano Campus and test video games. Earlier today I went to the Plano campus and was called in by the THQ gaming center. Along with about 10 other testers, I got the chance to play an unreleased video game and then give my feedback on it. After an hour and a half of playing we were compensated with new video games and IT WAS AWESOME! Well I g2g, it’s Friday and there are some friends of mine playing Ultimate Frisbee out in front of Dallas hall. LATER!

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Nuts about Southwest!

By Lauren Cook

lwcook@smu.edu

I have the privilege of working as an intern for Southwest Airlines this semester. I wouldn’t have gotten to application opportunity if it weren’t for the help from SMU staff and students. Not only had my professor worked with Southwest Airlines, but also one of our very own tour guides, Derek Hubbard! All of that to say–SMU networking is fantastic.

SMU students have the chance to hear about great networking opportunities including but not limited to: job shadowing, internships, work study jobs, free resume reviews, free mock job interviews, and informational interviews with top managers and recruiters. Most of the time, the professionals come to us on campus!

I am so thankful for this opportunity at Southwest Airlines. I am excited for the three months ahead of me (I just started January 17th and I go till April 18th). And I can’t help but thank SMU for getting me there. Hopefully, it will turn into a job! Fingers crossed 🙂

Until next time,