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Magna signs on to engineer and build off-road EVs in 2026 – Electrek

Building off a previous relationship with INEOS Automotive for contracted vehicle engineering, Magna is adding a new model to its complete vehicle manufacturing branch an all-electric 44 designed to go off-road.

Magna International is a globally recognized automotive contract manufacturer with over 130 production and assembly facilities across North America, Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa. The company is in the process of expanding its automotive expertise in the state of Michigan following a $500 million investment.

Simultaneously, Magna is investing another $470 million to expand its existing operations across Ontario, Canada, creating over 1,000 new jobs. Across the pond, Magna Steyrs plant in Graz, Austria, is currently home to the assembly of the Fisker Ocean, whichbegan productionlast November.

According to todays announcement, Magna is bringing a new and exciting build to Austria in the form of an off-road EV for existing customer INEOS Automotive.

To date, Magna Steyr has produced over 4 million vehicles across 31 different model designs. That said, many of those builds were engineered by the OEMs who contracted Magna for its manufacturing know-how.

In recent years, Magna has developed a lot of innovative EV technology, and it has decades of experience engineering complete builds of vehicles for its customers. For example, in 2018, Magna began working with INEOS Automotive to provide complete vehicle engineering services for the latters flagship off-road vehicle the Grenadier.

Now, INEOS wants to go all-electric with its second model and has once again asked Magna to help bring it to fruition. According to Magna, it will be responsible for the complete engineering of the new off-road electric vehicle, in addition to its awarded contract to manufacture the EVs in Graz, Austria. Per Magna Complete Vehicles interim president Roland Prettner:

We are excited to have been chosen as INEOS Automotives strategic manufacturing partner, building on the strength of our existing relationship in vehicle engineering. This new electric vehicle adds nicely to our line-up in Austria and showcases our flexibility in producing a range of vehicles from ICE-based to fully electric.

We dont know many other details about INEOS off-road EV design yet, but the company already has an engineering ace up its sleeve with Magnas help, as it approaches the start of production in 2026. INEOS Automotive CEO Lynn Calder also spoke to the contract manufacturing agreement:

Having worked together on the engineering of our crucial first product, weve seen first-hand the value of applying Magnas agility, expertise and experience to a complete vehicle development program. Deepening our collaboration is a natural next step as we use the Grenadier as a springboard for our continued growth as a global automotive brand with our second model line. Well once again work with the very best partners to launch another world-class product to our customers in 2026.

INEOS combustion-dependant Grenadier model looks like a cool 44, but its by no means aerodynamic. It will be interesting to see what types of innovative designs and engineering Magna brings to its customers all-electric off-road models over the next three years. This will be a development process we are sure to keep an eye on.

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Virginia Tech names new head of Department of Mining and … – Cardinal News

Heres a roundup of education briefs from around Southwest and Southside:

Virginia Tech has named Aaron Noble as the new head of the Department of Mining and Minerals Engineering.

Noble is a three-time alumnus of the department that he will lead beginning June 25.

His research has focused on scientific discoveries that lead to technology development, maturation and commercialization, and he has served as assistant director of theCenter for Advanced Separation Technologies.

His research has produced 42 peer-reviewed articles and eight awarded or pending U.S. patents, four of which have been licensed to various industry affiliates. Outcomes from his work promote and support the sustainable production of mineral resources through improved energy and processing efficiency and reduced waste. In addition, Noble is an award-winning teacher, having received the departmental outstanding instructor award every year since 2018 as well as college-level teaching awards in 2021 and 2022.

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Jean Case will deliver the keynote address at Virginia Techs University Commencement ceremony on Friday, May 12.She is the chairman of the National Geographic Society, CEO of the Case Foundation, and founder of For What Its Worth.

She worked as a top executive at America Online for nearly a decade, where she oversaw all marketing that established AOL as the No. 1 internet brand and the first internet company to go public.

After leaving AOL, Case and her husband, Steve, created the Case Foundation to address social challenges.

The University Commencement ceremony will begin at 8:30 a.m. on May 12 in Lane Stadium. A complete schedule of commencement ceremonies and additional commencement information can be found online atcommencement.vt.edu.

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Virginia Secretary of Labor and Ferrum College alumnus Bryan Slater 82 will be the keynote speaker for the Colleges 107th commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 6.

Slater has over 20 years of political experience serving the public, non-profit and private sectors. In Virginia, Slater served as Secretary of Administration for Governor James Gilmore.

He was the White House liaison to the U.S. Department of Labor under President George W. Bush and a congressional relations officer for the Department of Housing and Urban Development under President George H.W. Bush.

Most recently, Slater served as Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management at the U.S. Department of Labor and Assistant Secretary of Administration for the U.S. Department of Transportation under President Donald Trump.

He received his associates degree from Ferrum College and his bachelors degree in Political Science from the University of Richmond.

The Ferrum College commencement ceremony honoring the class of 2023 will take place at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 6 in W.B. Adams Stadium on campus.

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Brahmachari Sharan, who directs Hindu life at Georgetown University, will present the University of Lynchburgs 2023 Turner-Warren and Shumate lectures. Both events are free and open to the public.

Sharans Turner-Warren Lecture on Life and Faith Living with Faith: A Hindu Among the Jesuits will take place at 4 p.m. April 23 at First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) at 3109 Rivermont Ave. in Lynchburg. Sharan will discuss life as a Hindu spiritual leader in a Jesuit environment and what made him decide to take on that role.

His Jennie Cutler Shumate Lecture The Spirituality of Difference: Dharmic Perspectives on University Life will be presented at 7 p.m. April 24 in Snidow Chapel on campus. In this talk, Sharan will highlight the importance of interfaith work in a university setting.

Sharan is the only Hindu priest serving as a chaplain at a university, as reported in a 2016Washington Post story. Born in Britain, he trained as a priest at ashrams in India, completed his doctorate in Sanskrit at the University of Edinburgh, and later taught at universities in Wales and London.

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Registration is now open for New River Community Colleges nurse aide program that begins on April 24.

The 13-week program runs April 24 through July 20 (class ID #25469) with lectures Mondays from 6 p.m.-10 p.m. and skill labs on Tuesday from 6 p.m.-10 p.m.

The course also includes five clinical day Saturday sessions in June and July (6/3, 6/10, 6/17, 6/24, and 7/1) from 6:45 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. Upon completion of the program, students are eligible to apply to take the National Nurse Aide Assessment Program (NNAAP) exam to become a Certified Nurse Aide.

Nurse aides help patients or clients with health care needs under the supervision of a registered nurse or a licensed practical nurse. They provide hands-on care to patients, helping with bathing, dressing and the basic activities of life. Daily activities a nurse aide might encounter include taking patients temperature, blood pressure and other vital signs.

The nurse aide program is eligible for tuition assistance through the G3 program. This program provides Virginia residents who qualify for in-state tuition and whose family income falls below an identified threshold with tuition assistance. Additional financial assistance may also be available.

To register, email Amber Slusser-Brillhart at asbrillhart@nr.edu or call (540) 674-3600, ext. 4435.

Nurse aide is one of several NRCC FastForward programs that provides affordable, short-term training through the Office of Workforce Development. For more information about FastForward program offerings, visit https://www.nr.edu/fastforward/.

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Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Salem, will host his 2023 Service Academy Day event onSaturday, May 6, from10:00 am 12:00 pmat the Wytheville Meeting Center located at 333 Community Boulevard, Wytheville.

The event will feature representatives from each of the U.S. Service Academies, the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets, the Virginia Military Institute, and other Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs.

Students in surrounding jurisdictions, outside of the Ninth District, may attend to receive information about the Service Academies and serving in the military.

For more information, contact Josh Hess at (540) 381-5671 orJosh.Hess@mail.house.gov

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VTU postpones first semester Engineering exams to April 27 owing to technical glitches in admission approval – The Hindu

Owing to technical problems in the approval process of admissions, the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) postponed the first semester Engineering examinations to April 27, on Tuesday. The exams were scheduled from April 20.

The Department of Technical Education is conducting the admission approval for technical courses online from this year. The VTU has developed a separate software for the process. But, due to technical glitches, the admission approval process has been delayed.

Only two days were left for the examinations and approximately 75,000 students, ready to face the examinations in 208 Engineering colleges, were worried and had demanded the postponement of the exams.

Along with this, the Election Commission has scheduled the election duty training on April 20 and the teaching faculty members of all government and aided Engineering colleges are expected to participate.

Speaking to The Hindu, S. Vidyashankar, Vice-Chancellor of VTU, said, The technical glitches in the admission approval have been successfully resolved and 900 students approval is remaining. The Election Commission is also conducting the training for election duty and all our government and aided college teaching faculties are participating. Therefore, we decided to postpone the examinations.

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Reverse Engineering the Future: Bitcoin.com Team Members Weigh … – Bitcoin News

The ETHGlobal Tokyo hackathon drew to a close on Sunday, as builders from around the world competed for $375,000 in prizes. The event was kicked off with the first-ever ETHGlobal Pragma summit, sponsored by Verse, among others. Engineers and representatives from Bitcoin.com also took part in the summit and hackathon, and shared their thoughts on the event and its significance for crypto and economic freedom right now, and in the near future.

The first-ever Pragma summit took place on April 13 in Tokyo, Japan, as the kick-off to the wider ETHGlobal Tokyo hackathon, sponsored in part by Verse. Speakers such as Aya Miyaguchi from the Ethereum Foundation and author Balaji Srinivasan spoke at the event. The hackathon ended Sunday and saw participation from Bitcoin.coms engineers and representatives.

Director of engineering at Bitcoin.com, Andrei Terentiev, who oversees the companys 30+ strong engineering team, noted he was super excited for the ETH global hackathon, especially since Japan has been closed down to outside visitors for the past three years or so, its a great chance to meet more of the global cryptocurrency community and share new ideas that will push forward the cryptocurrency ecosystem as a whole. Terentiev continued:

Overall I think most participants in the event are all striving towards the same mission of cryptocurrency which is to create more economic freedom for the world. So being able to meet up in person helps spread those ideas and flourish across the world.

Data engineer at Bitcoin.com, Bolun Zhang, said of the event: Being a tech guy, Im always interested in keeping up with the latest trends in the industry and exploring cool projects being undertaken by my peers.

$375,000 in prizes were available from myriad industry players and platforms like 1inch Network, Gnosis Chain, Metamask, and more.

At the event, well be building what were calling a decentralized lottery, growth marketing specialist at Bitcoin.com Alun Stern told Bitcoin.com News just prior to the hackathon. The first part of the application is kind of like a reverse lottery in a traditional lottery, one person wins, and everyone else loses. In this system, everyone will win, and one person will lose. The losers funds will get distributed across the winning participants.

Stern explained that the team would be designing the lottery in such a way that the loser would get a rare NFT. The second part of the app works similarly to prediction markets, he said, noting:

Somebody will be able to propose an event, they will assign an arbiter, and they will assign multiple choice options The interesting thing about this is not only are these prediction markets used for people to bet on future outcomes they can also be used to influence the future and basically change the future.

Stern explained that someone willing to pay enough money could bet that an influencer on social media would not promote a project, incentivizing said influencer to do just that.

Ahead of the event, a software engineer on the web team at Bitcoin.com, Julie, emphasized that the hackathon would provide many benefits, including getting people more familiar with the burgeoning world of Web3. She commented:

[The hackathon] will give us an opportunity to share ideas and work with different people on interesting new products that can help users to onboard into the crypto world, as well as help developers hone their skills and dive into Web3 if they didnt have any experience with it before. It will be great to see what everyone comes up with!

The Bitcoin.com team wrapped up the event with an implementation prize from Scroll, a zkEVM-based zkRollup on Ethereum that enables native compatibility for existing Ethereum applications and tools.

What are your thoughts on the ETHGlobal Tokyo hackathon? Have you ever participated in a hackathon before? Be sure to let us know in the comments section below.

Graham Smith is an American expat living in Japan, and the founder of Voluntary Japanan initiative dedicated to spreading the philosophies of unschooling, individual self-ownership, and economic freedom in the land of the rising sun.

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University of Miami College of Engineering launches consortium to make flying cars a reality for commuters – Newswise

Newswise To transform the way we commute and live the University of Miami College of Engineering launched the Miami Engineering Autonomous Mobility Initiative (MEAMI), a consortium of world-class academic, industry, and government partners.

MEAMI researchers are developing next-generation electric vertical takeoff/landing (eVTOL) air vehiclesflying cars, essentiallybuilding on research funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Science Foundation, NASA, and other major government agencies.

Participating in MEAMI are industry leaders Eve Air Mobility, Aeroauto, and Ryder System, along with nonprofit leaders such as The Beacon Council. The consortium enjoys support from prominent public sector partners as well such as the Departments of Energy, Education, and Transportation.

MEAMI aims to advance autonomous mobility technology and anticipate challenges to implementation in todays cities, making this staple of science fiction a part of our daily lives. Applications are plentifulfrom air taxis, to assisting in quick transport of patients to hospitals, to rapid transit from busy downtown areas to the airport. Additionally, autonomous mobility will also be applied for surface transport aspectsaddressing shipping of goods and people.

The consortium will investigate the many aspects of autonomous mobility, including advanced propulsion, sensing, integration of satellite signals with local sensing, artificial intelligence, clean energy and energy storage, and advanced materials, with prominent faculty members leading the way. In addition, issues of safety, air traffic control, regulatory aspects related to noise, cybersecurity, and other relevant matters will also be addressed by the Consortium.

This initiative will work on five verticals focused on the next two years: Advanced Technological Development, Operations, Regulations and Safety, Public Relations, Development, and Advancement.

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About the University of Miami

The University of Miami is a private research university and academic health system with a distinct geographic capacity to connect institutions, individuals, and ideas across the hemisphere and around the world. The Universitys vibrant and diverse academic community comprises 12 schools and colleges serving more than 17,000 undergraduate and graduate students in more than 180 majors and programs. Located within one of the most dynamic and multicultural cities in the world, the University is building new bridges across geographic, cultural, and intellectual borders, bringing a passion for scholarly excellence, a spirit of innovation, a respect for including and elevating diverse voices, and a commitment to tackling the challenges facing our world.

About the College of Engineering

Founded in 1947, The College of Engineering at the University of Miami is home to the next generation of innovators working together to solve real-world problems. Our faculty is also leading the way, cultivating tomorrows leaders with technical, scientific skills and resources to be innovative in the academic, nonprofit, private, and public sectors. We are dedicated to make a positive impact in the world by addressing multiple challenges in these six strategic initiatives: Advanced Materials, Health Engineering, Data Sciences, Space Science and Engineering, Sustainability and Resilience as well as Energy and Environment.

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How to Get a Six-Figure Job as an AI Prompt Engineer – TIME

A new kind of AI job is emergingand it pays six-figure salaries and doesnt require a degree in computer engineering, or even advanced coding skills.

With the rise in generative artificial intelligence, a host of companies are now looking to hire prompt engineers who are tasked with training the emerging crop of AI tools to deliver more accurate and relevant responses to the questions real people are likely to pose.

Some of these jobs can even pay up to $335,000 a year.

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Anna Bernstein, a 29-year-old prompt engineer at generative AI firm Copy.ai in New York, is one of the few people already working in this new field. Her role involves writing text-based prompts that she feeds into the back end of AI tools so they can do things such as generate a blog post or sales email with the proper tone and accurate information. She doesnt need to write any technical code to do this; instead, she types instructions to the AI model to help refine responses.

There arent many of us prompt engineers, and for a long time it really felt like it was just me, Bernstein says. She joined Copy.ai in September 2021, about a year before OpenAIs ChatGPT went viral for its uncanny ability to generate elegant writing and answer almost any question. At the time, the term prompt engineer didnt exist, and they were unsure whether it was even a role that could exist.

Bernstein, who studied English in college, was a copywriter and historical research assistant before becoming a prompt engineer. I had no tech background whatsoever, she says. But to have a humanities background in this field seems to me like a triumph, especially since part of the point of developing AI is to imitate human thought.

Prompt engineering is now considered one of the hottest tech jobs as companies look for ways to help train and adapt AI tools to get the most out of new large language models, which can provide results that are not always correct or appropriate.

Its part of a dramatic increase in demand for workers who understand and can work with AI tools. According to LinkedIn data shared with TIME, the number of posts referring to generative AI has increased 36-fold in comparison to last year, and the number of job postings containing GPT rose by 51% between 2021 and 2022. Some of these job postings are being targeted to anyone, even those without a background in computer science or tech.

Its too soon to tell how big prompt engineering will become, but a range of companies and industries are beginning to recruit for these positions. Anthropic, a Google-backed AI startup, is advertising salaries up to $335,000 for a Prompt Engineer and Librarian in San Francisco. Applicants must have a creative hacker spirit and love solving puzzles, the listing states. Automated document reviewer Klarity is offering as much as $230,000 for a machine learning engineer who can prompt and understand how to produce the best output from AI tools.

Outside of the tech world, Boston Childrens Hospital and consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton recently advertised for prompt engineering jobs, with the latter paying up to $212,000 for applicants with more than three years of experience implementing machine learning models. Actor Donald Glover is even looking to hire a prompt engineer and prompt animator at his new creative studio.

But despite the engineering moniker in the job title, Bernstein says she doesnt fully consider herself an engineer. When I first started, we tried to get the term prompt specialists going, she says. Then the term prompt engineer as a noun emerged.

Rob Lennon, an expert in prompt engineering, began teaching paid online courses through Kajabi in December designed to help the average person learn the skills needed for a job in the field. His two courses, which around 2,000 students have already taken, demonstrate how to format and structure prompts for different types of tasks and domains. People are clamoring for this knowledge, Lennon says. Its kind of like first movers advantage. The courses start at $150 and can cost up to $3,970 for custom training and course certification.

But on the other side, some experts believe that the prompt engineering hype will burn out once AI becomes more powerful and capable of generating its own prompts. Ethan Mollick, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvanias Wharton School, cautions that those looking to become prompt engineers should consider that much is unknown about the future of the industry.

Its not clear that prompt engineering is going to matter long-term because AI programs are getting better at anticipating what users need and generating prompts, he says. We also dont know if theres a special skill involved for prompt engineering or if it just requires a lot of time spent with chatbots.

And the high salaries currently being offered may not last. These are jobs that probably only 500 people could do right now, so there are these insane salaries, Lennon says. But in six months, 50,000 people will be able to do that job. The value of this knowledge is greater today than it will be tomorrow.

Mollick notes that those interested in exploring this field should try experimenting with large language models like GPT+ and Bard to learn their own approach to developing prompts, rather than taking an online course. Thats because AI systems are changing so quickly and the prompts that work today may not work in the future. What I worry about is people thinking that there is a magical secret to prompting, he says.

Given the high interest in AI jobs, Karin Kimbrough, chief economist at LinkedIn, says employers may quickly find that they need to compete with one another to hire talent to fill these emerging open roles, particularly if they continue to focus on hiring applicants with specific degrees or past job titles. Given how late-breaking all of this is, its important to approach these newly developed roles with a skills-first mindset, by focusing on the actual skills required to do the job, she says.

Some may find it suspicious that tech companies are willing to dole out this kind of cash at a time of massive layoffs across the industry. But tech entrepreneurs who champion the power of artificial intelligence believe prompt engineering has the chance to take off and shape the future of automation. The hottest new programming language is English, Andrej Karpathy, Teslas former chief of AI, wrote on Twitter.

Even so, not everyone agrees that prompt engineering will catch on at the six-figure salary levels with few educational requirements currently being offered. The trend has also raised questions about why people with a humanities background are compensated at the same rate as those with a tech background, Bernstein says. Her response: Why not? If theyre contributing as much to the product.

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The Square-Wheel Bicycle Is a Rideable, Beautiful Piece of Engineering – autoevolution

There's no official count for bicycle-related records or world firsts, but if there were, The Q would be at the top of the leaderboard. The Q is Sergii Gordieiev, a self-professed nerd into "science videos and more" with a soft spot for reinvented DIY (do-it-yourself) bicycles. For him, the combination of these two has proved the perfect recipe for getting those world firsts.

Over the years, The Q has delivered some of the strangest contraptions on two wheels you'll likely see anywhere, starting with the most basic, pedal-powered bikes and turning them into noteworthy one-offs with his imagination and refined skills. There's the icycle, a bike that can ride on ice because he swapped the wheels for circular saw blades. There's the bike with wheels made of hot glue gun sticks, which glows in the dark. There's the bike with half-wheels and the hubless fat bike and the examples could continue for a while.

The Q has a knack for strange ideas and, most impressively, for making them into real objects that retain some of the functionality of the original. That last part is the most impressive.

Photo: YouTube / The Q

Where common sense and physics say it can't be done, The Q proves that it can. Take the square-wheel bike as an example, his most recent build and by far "the craziest" project he ever worked on: it's a Crosser fat tire bike (he seems to have a thing for those, too) with homemade wheels that are perfect squares. It doesn't just look very impressive, but it's actually rideable.

The Q even goes as far as to say that it's a fully-functional bicycle, which you can ride normally and even take turns with. Do take a grain of salt with the latter part of that claim because it's highly unlikely that it can do anything more than crawl at a slow speed on even ground, and that too with maximum effort on the rider's part.

Photo: YouTube / The Q

Obviously, since a square can't turn smoothly on the ground, the wheels on this bike don't rotate. Instead, the bike rides on tracks, like a mini-tank on two wheels, with an adapted drivetrain that sends power from the crank to the gears on the outside of each square.

To create the square wheels, The Q built a heavy supporting metal frame, to which he added a spinning gear and a couple of rolling bearings on each side. He added bike chains to the spinning gears, going around the frame, and a new rubber track made up of cut-up pieces from the original bike tire, bolted to the chains, the moving part of the track. With the modified drivetrain, which features two cranks, one for a spinning gear on each wheel, the bicycle can be pedaled into motion.

Photo: YouTube / The Q

It's safe to assume, though, that it wouldn't hold up. The wheels are very heavy, so getting it to move from a standstill is probably hell on your legs, and it will most likely not be able to turn or handle a rougher patch. But it works, and it shows that you can have square wheels on a bike and still have it ride. It's beautiful, too like watching an optical illusion come to life.

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German engineering production rises at the start of 2023 – VDMA – Reuters

BERLIN, April 17 (Reuters) - Production in Germany's engineering sector rose by 3.2% in the first two months of 2023 compared with the same months last year as supply chain bottlenecks eased considerably, the VDMA engineering association said on Monday.

Despite a solid start to the year, VDMA stuck to its full-year forecast for a 2% drop in production compared with last year.

"The currently slightly improved economic environment will only be reflected in incoming orders and sales in the industry with a time lag," VDMA head Karl Haeusgen said in a statement.

German engineering companies' order books shrank by 17% in January and February, VDMA said, citing a global economic slowdown clouding investors' sentiment.

The shortage of skilled workers is currently the biggest challenge for the industry, which employed 1.018 million people at the end of 2022.

"Many companies would have liked to hire more staff but are being held back by the bottlenecks in the labour market," Haeusgen said.

Reporting by Tom Kaeckenhoff and Riham Alkousaa; Editing by Hugh Lawson

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NCCC to offer software engineering course | News, Sports, Jobs – The Adirondack Daily Enterprise

North Country Community Colleges Malone campus recently installed a new sign. The college will soon offer coding classes through a partnership with UpNCoding, a software engineering education company based in Tupper Lake.(Trevor Buchanan/Malone Telegram)

SARANAC LAKE North Country Community College is partnering with Tupper Lake firm UpNCoding to prepare students for careers in the growing software engineering industry, according to a joint press release issued Monday.

According to the release, UpNCoding is both a company and a course that focuses on preparing the next generation of software engineers through education and training. Together, NCCC and UpNCoding will offer a 12-week course, beginning this May, that is designed to provide students with career opportunities across multiple industries with companies of various sizes.

When students complete the course, they will be prepared for modern software interview processes and will be educated in potential entry-level positions from full-stack engineer to machine learning engineer. UpNCoding has been creating a partner network where students would be able to interview for open positions immediately after completion of the course, the release stated.

The course is part of a larger effort by NCCC to identify and meet needs for skilled workers in the North Country, according to Joseph Keegan, president of the school.

Its the kind of jobs that would also permit folks who want stay and make good pay, and work remotely, Keegan told the Telegram on Tuesday. Theres no shortage of jobs.

The course introduces software engineering principles through instruction-led projects and industry standard tools that students will interact with in their future technology careers.

The course will be held at the Saranac Lake campus but students would not need to physically attend those classes, which will meet three times per week for three-hour sessions. The sessions will be available in a HyFlex format with in-person, synchronous online instruction in addition to recorded sessions to allow for flexible learning. All sessions will be taught by one to two industry-experienced instructors.

According to columbia.edu, HyFlex combines the terms hybrid and flexible. Hybrid learning refers to learning that integrates complementary face-to-face (synchronous) and online learning (asynchronous) experiences in service of intended learning objectives.

The emphasis there is on the variability and flexibility of teaching modalities, Keegan explained. You can teach live, people can connect from the campuses, or they can connect remotely from wherever they are.

Dan Preice, CEO of UpNCoding and one of the course instructors, said his firm is excited to be partnering with NCCC, and is excited to bring its teaching method to the school. He said talks about the course have been under way for roughly a year with the college.

While other institutions focus on a front-end app development, UpNCoding is providing a more well-rounded, full-stack education that better addresses the growing needs of the software engineering industry, Preice said in the press release.

North Country Community College will host the course while UpNCoding will provide instruction and the curriculum.

We are excited about our joint initiative with UpNCoding, Sarah Maroun, North Countrys vice president of academic affairs, said in the release. This technical curriculum will provide direct-to-work training with a 12-week program, and we are excited that additional courses are being prepared in topics such as security, devops, microprocessor firmware and artificial intelligence/machine learning to better address the needs of the industry and region.

Preice said his company is committed to meeting those needs.

We saw this was an area that needed more training and expertise and infrastructure, Preice told the Telegram on Tuesday. Thats why we got into it. We saw the need in the north country to bring more technology-based jobs and education. After talking to North Country they were in the same boat, they were looking for something similar.

We formed this direct-to-workforce program that hits the needs of technology in the area, technology in the industry, and helps bring job potential to the area.

To further align the needs of the community, NCCC and UpNCoding are developing a second phase of their relationship with a joint venture to provide software contracting services as a means to introduce resume-building workplace experience to students, the release said.

The course will start on May 22 and continue through Aug. 7 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays with in-person, live broadcasting, and recording available.

For more information visit http://www.nccc.edu/coding or call 518-891-2915 ext. 1203.

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Forum for Second GSIE Dean Candidate to be Held Today, April 17 – University of Arkansas Newswire

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Dr. Ed Pohl

The second dean candidate for the Graduate School and International Education, Ed Pohl, will hold an open forum from 3:15 - 4 p.m. today, April 17, in the E.J. Ball Courtroom in the Law School.

During the open forum, Pohl will present his vision for the future of the Graduate School and International Education, which will be followed by a question-and-answer session.

The forum is open to the public, and the campus community can attend in person or virtually using Zoom and the information provided below:

A recording willbe available within 24 hours following the presentation at this link for those who are unable to attend in person.

U of A faculty and staff can provide their feedback on the second dean candidate by completing an evaluation form. Faculty and staff must sign in with their university credentials to access the form.

Pohl currently serves as department head of the Department of Industrial Engineering at the U of A. He also holds the Twenty-First Century Professorship in Engineering and is a professor of industrial engineering. Prior to his role as department head, Pohl was director of the Master of Science in Operations Management degree program. Before joining the U of A faculty, Pohl spent 21 years in the United States Air Force, where he served in a variety of engineering, operations analysis and academic positions during his career before retiring as a lieutenant colonel.

As a scholar, Pohl has led research in risk, reliability, engineering optimization, healthcare logistics, and supply chain risk analysis, decision making and quality. He is a fellow of the American Society for Engineering Management, the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers and the Society of Reliability Engineers. Pohl is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Society for Quality. He is a diplomate in the Society of Health Systems. He is also a member of the International Council on Systems Engineering, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, and the Association for Health Care Resource & Materials Management.

Pohl received his Ph.D. in systems and industrial engineering from the University of Arizona. He holds an M.S. in systems engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology, an M.S. in reliability engineering from the University of Arizona, an M.S. in engineering management from the University of Dayton and a B.S. in electrical engineering from Boston University.

For more information on Pohl, view his curriculum vitae.

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