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Northrop Grumman Corporation is a leading global security company providing innovative systems, products, and solutions in aerospace, electronics, information systems, and technical services to government and commercial customers worldwide. Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Citizenship is required for most positions.

John Deere helps its customers – those who cultivate, harvest, transform, enrich, or build upon the land – meet the world’s dramatically increasing need for food, fuel, shelter, and infrastructure. John Deere has recently been recognized as a Thompson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovator and ranked second on the InformationWeek 500 Most Innovative Users of Business Technology for 2012.

Bloomberg's R&D department offers exciting opportunities for highly-motivated individuals seeking a challenging technical role in the financial industry. An extensive training program will provide technical and financial skills needed to succeed in Bloomberg's organization. Successful applicants will be involved in the design and development of state-of-the-art financial information software products.

Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Allston Trading, LLC is a premier high frequency market maker in over 40 financial exchanges, in 20 countries, and in nearly every conceivable product class. We sit at the intersection of financial strategy and high-technology; this requires us to hire the best and brightest and give them the tools and freedom they need to be successful.

C3 offers a family of software solutions that help companies to understand, optimize, and report on their energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, in order to reduce cost, risk, and environmental impact.

As one of America's leading transportation groups, Union Pacific Corporation and principal operating company Union Pacific Railroad provide Americans with efficient and safe freight transportation. The company's portfolio includes agricultural, automotive, chemicals, energy, industrial and intermodal products and services. Union Pacific seeks individuals to move the transportation industry forward; visit www.unionpacific.jobs for more.

Big thinking. Big network. Big possibilities. Why does that describe Rockwell Collins? Because the first moon transmission was our achievement. So was the development of GPS, networked battlespaces and Next Gen air transportation systems. Big ideas call for big thinkers. We're building a global workforce of people with diverse backgrounds, viewpoints and ideas who are committed to our foundation of innovation.

Boeing is the world's leading aerospace company and largest manufacturer of commercial planes and military aircraft, designing and manufacturing rotor-craft, electronic and defense systems, missiles, satellites, launch vehicles and advanced information and communication systems. Boeing is a major NASA service provider and provides military and commercial airline support. Boeing employs more than 160,000 in 71 countries.

TCS is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that delivers real results to global business, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. A part of the Tata group, India's largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 198,500 of the world's best-trained consultants in 42 countries and consolidated revenues of US $8.2 billion for year ending March 31, 2011.

Currently, more than 120 million professionals are on LinkedIn, including executives from all Fortune 500 companies, as well as a wide range of household names in technology, financial services, media, consumer packaged goods, entertainment, and numerous other industries. The company is publicly held and has a diversified business model with revenues coming from user subscriptions, advertising sales, and hiring solutions.

Riverbed Technology and our award-winning WAN optimization solutions are changing the way organizations work. The pride, expertise, and innovation we build into our products and services are an integral part of who we are and how we work. Whether you're a recent college graduate or you have several years experience working in the technology sector, we're looking for the best people to join our team.

Interactive Intelligence is a developer of business communications software and services for contact center automation, enterprise IP telephony, and business process automation. Interactive Intelligence is not just a pioneering software company, but one that has demonstrated sustainable growth and long-term stability. The company's innovative solutions are used by more than 4,000 customers worldwide.

In today's financial markets, world-class technology is essential to success. Chopper Trading's technology team builds the systems, software, and network capabilities that lead the industry. From trading algorithms and optimization techniques to computational parallelism, we offer the opportunity to work at the very forefront of technological innovation.

Yahoo! Inc. is an internet service provider best known for its search engine, web portal, news, and e-mail functions, amongst many others. Yahoo.com receives an average of 3.4 billion hits a day as of October 2007.

At Qualcomm, students and new graduates jump right into next-generation technologies that are changing the wireless world. A world where power and capabilities keep increasing while the solutions get smaller and smaller. What's more, Qualcomm leads in technology innovations no other company is even touching in the mobile space.

Intel pushes the boundaries of innovation so our work can make people's lives more exciting, fulfilling, and manageable. And our work never stops. We never stop looking for the next leap ahead -- in technology, education, culture, manufacturing, and social responsibility. And we never stop striving to deliver solutions with greater benefits for everyone.

Palantir Technologies is working to radically change how groups analyze information. Palantir's platforms are used for visualizing, and analyzing the world's information. We support many kinds of data including structured, unstructured, relational, temporal, and geospatial. Our products are built for real analysis with a focus on security, scalability, ease of use, and collaboration.

Founded in February 2004, Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. The company develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph, the digital mapping of people's real-world social connections. Anyone can sign up for Facebook and interact with the people they know in a trusted environment.

The worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate, and collaborate, Cisco has led in the innovation of IP-based networking technologies, including routing, switching, security, TelePresence, unified communications, video, and wireless. The company's responsible business practices help ensure accountability, sustainability, and environmentally conscious operations.

Lockheed Martin is an information technology and global security company whose business is mostly generated from the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. federal government agencies. The Stealth Fighter and Hubble Space Telescope are among the company's many creations.

ViaSat creates new ways to connect customers to today's advanced network applications with satellite and other wireless networking systems. ViaSat employees enjoy freedom and independence, as well as individual responsibility, and work that is both interesting and rewarding.

Microsoft is a worldwide software corporation that has created essential computer products, such as the Microsoft Windows operating system and Microsoft Office. Microsoft has also expanded into entertainment sectors, creating the Xbox gaming system, the Zune music player, and the MSNBC cable network.

State Farm is an insurance and financial services company that has been the leading insurer of automobiles in the United States for close to 70 years. State Farm ranked 32nd in the 2008 Fortune 500 listings.

Jump Trading is an industry leader and innovator in the increasingly popular world of algorithmic high-frequency trading. We design software and implement new technologies as we uncover new opportunities in the financial markets.

Google is a worldwide leader in information accessibility whose goal is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible through a variety of technologies including search engines, web browsers, and email platforms, amongst others.

Corporate Partners

ECE Explorations

Explorations is ECE’s weekly seminar targeted at undergraduate students. The seminar occurs most Wednesdays during the school year at 5 pm in 151 Everitt Lab and is followed by a brief reception, also in 151. View this semester’s schedule.

About ECE Explorations

ECE Explorations introduces ECE students to new technologies, industry trends, and career opportunities in different electrical and computer engineering-related fields. Talks should be 50 minutes in length. The seminar room is equipped with a PA system and projector for showing slides.

Explorations is open to all ECE students and the general public and is required for ECE James Scholars. Typically a broad range of students attend with sophomores and juniors—the students with the greatest need for an introduction to the wider world of engineering—usually constituting the majority of the audience.

Sophomores are typically taking calculus/physics core courses, although they will have had a hands-on, four-hour introduction to ECE; most will have had one programming course. Juniors have typically completed beginning courses in circuits and computer engineering, and will be taking courses in electromagnetics and solid state devices.

About the presentation

Speakers should plan to describe the technologies and career opportunities for engineers in their area. For example, you could describe the breakthroughs in technology for digital television transmission, highlighting your company's products. It is inappropriate to give a recruiting talk in which the company's activities and opportunities are a major theme. It is appropriate to invite the audience to join the company representative at the post-presentation reception for specific discussion about the company and to collect resumes.

Presentation format

Explorations is a terrific way to get students excited about your or your company’s particular applications of electrical and computer engineering. Students are still discovering the many ways in which they’ll be able to apply what they learn here. Explorations helps them understand the vast opportunities that await them. Participating in this seminar is also a great way to gain name recognition and build a presence on campus as part of an overall engagement strategy.

Sample abstracts

MOTOROLA, Alex Tziortzis, senior engineer. "Location Finding Techniques for Wireless Mobile Telephony." This presentation discusses the main techniques for location finding in a wireless environment. Comparison and contrasts between the leading technologies will be looked at as well as future considerations for systems like the FCC mandated Emergency 911 requirements for wireless carriers.

TELLABS, Ken Poland, hardware engineer. "T1 Technology." This lecture discusses the basic public-switched telephone network in North America, and establishes the historical need for T1. While T1 is a digital communications carrier of many uses, the focus is on its prime use for voice communications. Limitations of analog voice transmission are discussed, as well as theory of digital voice encoding and Pulse Code Modulation (PCM). T1 parameters such as electrical format, network alarming, and telephone signalling, as well as several communication protocols used in T1 are presented.

ECE ILLINOIS FACULTY, Professor Jim Coleman. "Physical Electronics: Smaller can be Better." What if they wrote some software and there was nothing to run it on? Professor Coleman describes what's hot in the area of physical electronics, integrated circuits, lasers, etc. including hardware technology ranging from the very small to the even smaller.

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