Here are some of the messages students sent is reporting on their coop (name in green) or full time (name in blue) employment status this summer and beyond: Tiana Lichtenau Just thought I would write to say hi and see how your summer was going. I got a summer coop at APV communications. You can find them on the net at www.apvcom.com. They are a design firm in north jersey. I am the assistant art director there. I do a lot of work in photoshop and quark. I have been learning new techniques and I have been designing cd cases and doing all kinds of retouching. I really like the hands on aspect! I hope you are enjoying your summer. Well, better get back to work! Have a good one. Tiana Lichtenau :) Anthony Tanbakuchi Royal Philips Electronics - Image Sensors Semiconductors, Website: http://www.philips.semiconductors.com/imagers/ I will be physically working at: Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven, The Netherlands dr. ir. Albert J.P. THEUWISSEN Prof. Holstlaan, 4, WAG05, 5656AA Eindhoven The Netherlands My job title: Sensor Engineer Stuff I may work on: Anti-aliasing algorithms or CFA integration matrices.
Kerry L. Robarge Employer: United States Peace Corp Location: Kenya, Africa Position title: Peace Corp Volunteer Coop or Fulltime: Fulltime for two years Salary: $0.00 but wealthy in every other way Details: I will be teaching information technology to entrepeneurs, such as teaching how to utilize the computers to be a business advantage. How to set up e-mail systems and web pages as business tools. Also I will have an emphasis on setting up a community service program teaching HIV and AIDS awareness.
Linda Le This summer, I am working at Apple Computer. I'm in the Software Engineer department and will be programming on the Quicktime software (the next version!). It's in Cupertino, CA, which is right next to San Jose. I think they got my resume from a gaming conference that was in San Jose (Lisa Vasaturo or another co-op coordinator wrote to us about submitting our resumes so that they can bring it to the conference). Apple is really hooking me up - they are providing free housing, which is in walking distance to work, + utilities + local phone. They are also paying for my round trip flight. The house is completely furnished (I don't know if they're exaggerating, but they just said to bring my clothes and tolietries). However, the house is a two bedroom, and four people will be living there.
Meredith Whitaker Really looking forward to graduation. My family is all coming this thursday. Everyone is staying at my tiny apartment sleep over style! I just hope im not the first to fall asleep. We are all very excited. Except my grandmother is quite offended that graduation has to be at 7:30am; she'll be waking up in the middle of the night to be ready on time. As you know I am currently at Kodak in the Commercial & Gov't Systems department. I am on contract until Aug1 as a 'Research Imaging Scientist' (too fancy sounding ..huh) on a team that does image analysis. My manager has his PhD from UofA optics so he was thrilled to hear about my plans!! (Im going to UofA this fall, in case you forgot). I actually love my job. I play in Matlab all day long. I am responsible for writing image models that will predict the image quality of electro-optical devices (satellites) given several variables. So change the temperature of a certain mirror what happens......move the secondary mirror a bit...the sampling rate of the detector is different..so on so on...obviously I have described a huge job and my piece of it is modest but I give it my best shot. Probably DIP, math, and fourier optics classes prepared me the most for this job. I am so happy with our program. I make twice as much as I ever thought I would. Add to that the fact that my job is interesting and challenging and I work with really smart friendly people,,, and hey life is alright!! Even though my job is difficult at times I really do feel like I've learned enough to be capable of learning more. I look stuff up all day long & my programming experience on my internships has helped allot. Well i shouldn't be writing personal stuff at work. naughty me. i really hope I get to see you on grad day. my mom would love to say hi. later. *Meredith
Bianca Koscielski I got a coop at Kodak working in the Digital & Applied Imaging -ISS Division writing a help menu for some image processing software developed by one of the workers there. I'm sure that once I've completed the task of writing the help files, they'll carry me on to other tasks, but that is my main objective. I start on June 4th. My employers are Chris Parks and Dave Nichols (he's the supervisor of the division). This coop could end up being full time or part time throughout the next school year. Apparently, knowing this software inside and out is a hot commodity among this department, and I'd be in high demand after this summer and after I graduate. As of the 27th of this month, however, i'm homeless. I'm still looking for a place to live, preferably with a roommate that I know in a 2 bedroom place off campus. I have some options, but I'm going to be looking feverishly from now until I start at Kodak. I think that's it... bianca
Liana Schuetz I just got a phone call from Analex and they offered me a job there! I'm so excited I can't think straight right now, and I have to study for a final tomorrow, but I wanted you to know. Yeah!! Liana
Rosalyn Klinger Employer: Kansas State University, Research Program Dr. Kenneth Klabunde Location: Manhattan, KS Position title: Research Program, research working with graduates I will be researching "Biocidals of nanoparticles and their effects on Bacteria and Viruses." Coop or Fulltime: Co-op
Kristen Kelly Employer: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Location: Greenbelt, MD Position title: Optics Physical Science Technician Coop or Fulltime: Fulltime Thanks for being so involved in what your students are doing. I had a lot of fun these past 4 years in the Tech Program. We all appreciate everything you do for us. Just wanted to say thanks. I'll keep in touch -Kris
Kristyn Falkenstern i'll be working at Hewlett-Packard, Boise for the summer under james o'hara. not sure exactly what i'll be doing, but i'll keep you informed. just wanted to let you know where i'll be between June 1 and August 25 (roughly). have a great summer. kristyn falkenstern Joanne Gosselin Hi Andy! I'm sure most of this you already know, but I'll still go through and tell you my future plans details. Current Job: Project Coordinator / Color Rendering Engineer at Pixel Physics, in Rochester. I coopted here last summer, worked through the year part-time, and now I will be here full-time for about 8 months (until I leave the country). Future: I leave February, 2002 for my Master in Communication Design at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. Joanne:)
Erin Murphy This summer I am working at Estee Lauder (Northtec LLC) again in Philadelphia. My e-mail address is the same. Just wanted to let you know. Erin Murphy
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These were the Coops during Summer of 2000
Jessica Boarman Konica in NJ - remote minilab quality management
Jack Calcines Eastman Kodak - electron microscopy
Krystyn Falkenstern EI ETC in Boston
Ben Gershman Pixel Physics, Rochester, NY
Joanne Gosselin Pixel Physics, Rochester, NY
Conor Kelly ASF in Austin, TX
Rose Klinger dept coop with Bruce Kahn
Bianca Koscielski LithoKrome in Columbus, GA making giclee prints and
working on the Better Light program and scanner and
talking to Michael Collette (the creator of the Better
Light system) on nearly a daily basis.
Michelle Lavalette Transportation Research Labs - Ohio
Tiana Lichtenau Madison Photo in NJ
Logan Lindquist Pixel Physics, Rochester, NY
Nicole Marousek Fortune Magazine in NYC, working in the digital
ad production dept.
Erin Murphy Northtec in Philadelphia - Cosmetics Co.
Alicia Novi Konica in NJ - remote minilab quality management
Andy Prasetio Iris Graphics in MA as Chemistry Lab Technician, primary
job is making test prints using hundreds of ink types.
Paul Reichert NASA Langley LARSS program
Kerry Robarge HP in Vancouver, WA
Zachary Schreiber Camp Kingsmont in Stockbridge, MA teaching photography
Kim Sennett ConsciousMedia.com in Old Town Alexandria, VA doing a
bit of web development and some marketing.
Anthony Tanbakuchi Mount Rushmore National Park - webmaster
Garrett Vanderover Estee Lauder on Long Island trying to find a way to make lipstick match between the actual product and a computer monitor
Robert Waugh Bruce Bennett Fine Art Printing here in Rochester
Meredith Whitaker HP in Boise, ID
Joanne RIM UofR / IDL programming
Anita Bauer Foster Wheeler
Jason Peterson Foster Wheeler
David Zwarg Pixel Physics, Rochester, NY
Justin Laird MuseumArchives in Seattle
Victor Trimarchi MuseumArchives in Seattle
Liana Schuetz going to school over summer
Mark Updegraff NASA Glenn Research Cneter
Peter Tate Polaroid Corporation in Cambridge, MA
Vincent Reich ?
Kristen Kelly nursing her knee back into shape!
Astrida Rideout ?
Full time employment reports have been received from the following
students who graduated in May 2000:
Karen Dirkse Polaroid
Kirsa Upton Xerox
Patrick Harrington Xerox - Color Operations Xerox in Webster
Ryan Carson NASA/Analux in Cleveland
Sam Hill grad school
Jason Babcock grad school
Ellen Day Key Systems in Victor near Rochester
Bret E. Harmen Fuji/Hunt in NJ
Gennelle Quintana
Christine Pierce Titan Technologies in Atlanta, GA
David Zwarg Pixel Physics
Mike Kern own software business
Shannon Eddy Eastman Kodak
Sarah Arnold Image Permanence Institute
Scott Bogart NIMA
Here is some feedback from students who were on coop last summer. News from
those on coop in 2001 are still to be received.
From: Nicole_Marousek@timeinc.com
Hi Andy,
I'm doing a double block at Fortune Magazine in NYC. I work in the digital ad
production dept.
All is well here. I am having a great time in NY. My parents live about an hour
outside of the city in Northern Westchester, so I am quite accustomed to the
"New York City" lifestyle :) The only thing I don't really like is the commute,
but hey, you have to deal with these things for free rent! Other than that,
everything is well. I really like my job here - lots of deadlines and
insanity...it's right up my ally.
It was good to hear from you, and I will see you in the fall!
-Nicole
From: Andy Prasetio
Dear Andy,
HI, Sorry that I'm late in replying. I am doing my Co-op in Iris Graphics as
a Chemistry Lab Technician. Primary job is making test prints using hundreds
of ink types. I met several RIT graduates, including Dana Fokos ( IPT grad ).
several already left the company.
See you again next quarter,
Andy Prasetio
From: David Zwarg
Andy-
You got me right, I'm at Pixel Physics for the time being...I am still
waiting anxiously for some time on the water. So if you are going to
bring your boat out for a weekend or evening, let me know.
CYA
dave
From: brk8873@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Hey Andy,
Sorry, I've been really slack about my email since I got to Columbus, Georgia.
But here I am in Columbus which is about an hour and a half from Atlanta. I'm
working for a company, called LithoKrome, which deals with creating giclee and
press lithographs of famous artists from all over the world. They are also
responsible for printing Hallmark cards :)
I really like it here and I'm learning A LOT!! The people are so very nice, as
all the common thoughts of nice Southern folk would have it, and they are
treating me very well. My boss, Mr. David Reynolds, is a graduate from the
applied photography program at RIT (I can't remember the grad year), and it's
fun hearing the stories about "the old days" at RIT from another '74 RIT grad,
Mr. Jim Macky, who, as it turns out, is from a town only 20 minutes from my
hometown in Maryland. He works the big drum scanners in the Hallmark prepress
room.
I'm currently working on the Better Light program and scanner and talking to
Michael Collette (the creator of the Better Light system) on nearly a daily
basis. I'm currently scanning, spotting and restoring pieces of fine art which
eventually get turned into hundreds of thousands of lithographs. I'm
troubleshooting through applescript and visual basic code, and working on
profiling proofs of the art on Macs that have a mere 2 gigs of RAM alone!
I have a lot more objectives set up for me in the near future and while I am
here, which include Research and Development of the latest technology in
digital photographic equipment, Color correcting the proofs of the art, and
learning how to be a Hallmark Press Operator (a job that has its due respect
for the level of difficulty it assumes).
Well, that's all fer now! I'll see you with a brand new Georgia peach accent
at RA training in mid-August!
Bianca
PS - regretfully, I am not sunburned.....yet....but it has reached over 110
degrees this whole week and Georgia is in a severe state of drought. We're
back 15in. of much needed rain. No free film, but free (and very old) photo
studio equipment. All that besides, everything else is just peachy!
From: Paul
(Paul is working at teh NASA Langley Research Center in Hapton, VA)
Hey Andy,
I was talking to Rafaela Schwan today and she said that she ran into one of the
Professors in our department over the weekend. I guess she was at a conference
in Ohio. She coulden't remember who it was though, so I was just wondering who
it was.
I guess that she was handing out some information books about the LARSS
program. If you get a chance to look at it please do because about 95% of the
pictures in there are mine. I also got some work from last summer published in
the Summer 1999 issue of Technica magazine. The pictures aren't so great, but
it is kinda cool to have them published.
I also wanted to tell you that I am playing with a Hulcherama panoramic camera.
At first I couldn't get the camera's motor to work properly and after playing
with it for a while I figured out that the battery connection was really bad.
So they are going to get a new battery for the camera. Even though the motor
wasn't working properly, I was able to twist the camera around with my finger
and ended up getting some pretty good exposures.
Well, I guess I'd better get back to work because we are just sooooo busy down
here.
Paul
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 23:05:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Anthony Tanbakuchi
Andy,
Just wanted to let you know all is well at Mount Rushmore! I am having a great
time here. Not doing a ton of tech stuff, my primary duties are as a Park
Naturalist or Interpretive Park Ranger giving guided walks, talks and evening
programs (my last one last week has 2200 people in the audience). We just
finished our fourth of july celebration, we has over 30,000 poeple here, we
had 71 trips made by a freight helicoptor to deliver fire works to the top of
the sculpture where they shot them off. All day we had a lot of bands
including the United States Airforce Hartland of America Band. I am having a
ton of fun here and loving the Black Hills of South Dakota, there is a ton of
neat things to see and do here.
Hope ya all in Rochester are well
DoKtor Kuchi
(Anthony Tanbakuchi)
And here is a form you can fill out right now! if you'd like to offer an opportunity for an interview to an Imaging and Photographic Technology student. You can use it for either Coop or Full-time positions anywhere in the US, or even overseas.
Tech students who need registration information: HERE IT IS!
This is a note intended for current students who need info about how to register with the Coop and Placement office as well as the RIT Registrar. You must register in both places!
If you forgot to register before taking the coop position and you are no longer in Rochester, you can register with the Coop and Placement office on line. Go to http://www.rit.edu/co-op/careers and click on "students and alumni", in the left hand column you will see "got a co-op job? register here" and the rest is up to you.
In terms of registering with the RIT registrar you can do that remotely as well exactly as you would normally register for a course, the course # is: 2076-499-01
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