I participated on a panel today at the Usability Professional's Association Conference (See http://www.upassoc.org/index.html).
The panel session was about bridging the gap between academia and industry. A lot of great interaction and ideas - too many to write about.
One of the things we discussed are ways industry and academia can interact such as internships.
Right after the panel session was over I had four people hand me their card and said they have internships and I would like to get some of the students who have gone through "my" HCI course (Sorry Kris, you're no longer a student).
The companies are:
Intuit (//www.intuit.com)
Siemens (http://www.siemens.com/)
User Centric Inc. (//www.usercentric.com)
Waterford Research Institute (//www.waterford.org)
Now, before I will send your name to any of these companies you must have passed CS 321 with excellent grades, have a decent gpa, and have one CS professor who would write you a reference letter with generous postive adjectives.
If you are interested and meet these qualification contact me.
this is a very cool thing.
Yep.
BTW, Erin's presentation went very well AND she came away with another job offer.
Awesome! It's kind of inspiring.