Internships in User Centered Design

[Jerry]

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
Siemens
User Centric Inc.
Waterford Research Institute

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.

[Bryan]

this is a very cool thing.

[Jerry]

Yep.

BTW, Erin's presentation went very well AND she came away with another job offer.

[Bryan]

Awesome! It's kind of inspiring.