Speaker: Mr. George Jen, Mr. Raj Shea, Dr. Paul Chao, and Ms. Wen Hsieh
Date: 11/10/2007, Saturday
Time: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Presentation Handout:
(1) IT Jobs
(2) Accounting Career Path
(3) Project Management Career Path
(4) International Career Path
Abstract
Four NPU faculty members will share their industry experiences with you to relate NPU’s business curriculum design to the business job market in Silicon Valley, particularly in four areas: Information Systems, Marketing, Project Management, and Accounting. Each presentation will be given with the following focuses:
1. Explain the kind of job that a person in this position normally does in the industry after graduation (typical tasks they perform and type of expertise/skills they normally need).
2. How the courses in the concentration area reflect those skills and prepare them for the job market.
3. Several different real job positions with a listing of the job requirements and skill set will be given.
4. Typical starting salaries for these positions.
Biography
You may find these faculty members’ profiles on the NPU website at http://www.npu.edu/academics/faculty/faculty_bus.shtml.
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Topic: Your engineering study at NPU and the job perspective
Speaker: Dr. Tai Hsu, Dr. Mervyn Wong, and Mr. Yingli Ren
Date: 11/03/2007, Saturday
Time: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Presentation Handout: Click here to download
Abstract
Three NPU faculty members will share their industry experiences with you to relate NPU’s engineering curriculum design to the engineering job market in Silicon Valley, particularly in three areas: bioengineering (bio-informatics, etc.), nanotechnology, and IC design and related fields. Each presentation will be given with the following focuses:
1. Explain the kind of job that a person in this position normally does in the industry after graduation (typical tasks they perform and type of expertise/skills they normally need).
2. How the courses in the concentration area reflect those skills and prepare them for the job market.
3. Several different real job positions with a listing of the job requirements and skill set will be given.
4. Typical starting salaries for these positions.
Biography
You may find these faculty members’ profiles on the NPU website at http://www.npu.edu/academics/faculty/fa ... neer.shtml.
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Topic: Capital Requirement for Banks - History and Methodology
Speaker: Dr. William Ren
Date: 10/27/2007, Saturday
Time: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Presentation Handout: Click here to download
Abstract
This presentation provides a high-level introduction about how a Commercial Bank operates in the aspect of capital requirement. It also briefly reviews the history of regulation, the calculation methodology and parameter modeling process.
Biography
Dr. William Ren received his Ph.D. degree in Economics from University of California at Irvine (UCI). He also received an MA degree in Economics (UCI), an MS in Mathematical Behavior Science (UCI), an MS in Communication and Electronic Systems (China Academy of Posts and Telecommunications), and a BS in Management and Information System (Tsinghua University). He has two publications.*
Dr. Ren has over 12 years of work experience in commercial banking and investment/brokerage industry. He currently works as Vice President of Strategic Risk Management, Consumer Credit Group, Wells Fargo Bank. He is the President of Chinese Finance Professionals (ACFP).
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Topic: Market, Design and Debug: The life Cycle of System Architecture in the High-Tech Industry
Speaker: Dr. Yifong Shih
Date: 10/20/2007, Saturday
Time: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Abstract
Many success stories in the Silicon Valley would not have been possible without the contributions of its talented engineers and scientists. We know in the area of chip design there are several technical job categories such as design, verification and backend, but who actually pulls it all together? Who defines the product specification? Who talks to the customers for their inputs and when they have problems with the products, who functions as the focal point between customers, marketing and engineering? Who works as a technologist to present a coherent view of company’s product roadmaps to the customers, and to the company’s senior management? All these tasks fall into the domain of the systems architect.
This talk will cover the three main areas of a systems architect’s job: marketing, design and debugging. Based on the speaker’s personal experience, the talk will attempt to provide some insights into why a good systems architect is so critical to the success of a product.
Biography
Dr. Yifong Shih has over twenty years of experience working for various companies in the Bay Area. He started his career as a performance architect in IBM’s Storage Systems Division in Tucson, Arizona before moving to Hewlett-Packard and participated in the design of a fast memory subsystem for the directory-based Yosemite multiprocessor system. More recently he has worked as a designer for a high-speed Infiniband switch at RedSwitch and systems architect for a storage system-on-chip at Agilent.
Dr. Shih has authored several U.S. patents. He received his Ph.D in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He also holds a MSEE from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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There are no seminars during the last two weeks of this semester, the coming semester break and the 1st week of next semester. The next seminar will be on 10/20/2007, Saturday of the 2nd week of 2007 Fall.
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