On-Campus Interviews offer students a chance to conveniently interview for professional positions on campus.  Employers travel to our campus for the specific purpose of interviewing preselected students for currently open positions.  This is a great opportunity to interview with employers specifically interested in UMBC students and offers the advantage of a smaller applicant pool.  Interviews take place during the fall and spring. The logistics (viewing positions, applying, signing up for interview time slots, etc.) are all handled via UMBCworks.

Don't miss out on employers coming to UMBC to recruit YOU this fall! The following is a list of employers coming to conduct on-campus interviews with application deadlines in the next month.

**ARINC Incorporated

Interviewing on 10/5/12 (Deadline to apply via UMBCworks: 9/21/12)
Positions:   Junior Software Engineer, Junior Integration Engineer, Junior Communication Analyst, Junior Network Engineer
Majors:  Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering

**Carrier Corporation

Interviewing on 10/9/12 (Deadline to apply via UMBCworks:  9/25/12)
Positions:  Carrier Commercial Sales Engineer/Technician)
Majors:  Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering

**Northwestern Mutual Financial Network

Interviewing on 10/10/12 (Deadline to apply via UMBCworks:  9/26/12)
Positions:  Financial Representative
Majors:  All Majors

**T Rowe Price

Interviewing on 10/11/12 (Deadline to apply via UMBCworks:  9/27/12)
Positions:  Equity Associate Analyst
Majors:  ECON, FIEC, HIST, POLI, ACCT

A full list of On-Campus Interviews scheduled this fall is available on our website calendar and on UMBCworks, please check regularly for any updates or changes that may occur.

The following full-time positions have been posted within the past week to UMBCworks. Login to your account (via the link in the Jobs & Internships topic in myUMBC) and find details and application instructions as well as hundreds of other job postings!

9253680 - Account Executive - CBS Radio
9253803 - Accountant (Junior) - Parallel HR
9253742 - Administrative Assistant - UMBC Career Services Center
9253681 - Associate Journalist - CBS Radio
9253770 - Account Executive - Foodservice Sales - SYSCO Food

The following part-time positions have been posted within the past week to UMBCworks. Login to your account (via the link in the Jobs & Internships topic in myUMBC) and find details and application instructions as well as hundreds of other job postings!

9253833 - Genetic Lab Assistant - Trimgen Corporation
9253814 - Home Electronic Sales - H.H. Gregg
9253844 - Mortuary Transport and Crematory Operator - Anatomy Gifts Registry
9253222 - STEM Instructor and IT Specialist - Howard County Library

• US Citizen or Permanent Resident
• Graduating with a Bachelor's Degree in Dec. 2013 or later

Meet UMBC’s inaugural batch of NSF Scholarship for Service (SFS) CyberCorps program scholars. These four B.S., M.P.S. and Ph.D. students  will be able to hone their interests in Information Assurance and Cybersecurity through generous full-ride scholarships and opportunities to intern at government organizations. 

Oliver Kubik

Major: B.S. Computer Science '14
Hometown: New Windsor, MD

Oliver Kubik knew that Computer Science was for him starting in the 7^th grade when he played with madlib style programs on his basement computer. Now a Junior working toward his B.S. in Computer Science at UMBC, Oliver has plans to one day pursue a Ph.D.

What Oliver likes about Information Assurance and Cybersecurity  is the problem solving and detective work. “Everything must be analyzed much more in depth than conventional software applications whose bugs typically have minor consequences,” he says. “I think that securing mobile devices will be very important in the future.”

A Meyerhoff Scholar, Oliver is part of UMBC’s Cyber Defense Team and Ultimate Frisbee team. In Summer 2012, he pursued undergraduate research at the University of Connecticut, comparing the strengths of Amazon’s EC2 and Windows’ Azure cloud computing systems. “My results didn’t show a clear superiority of one system over another, but I did learn a lot about academic research, especially in the importance of organizing the data that is collected.”

His Freshman year, Oliver interned at System’s Alliance in Hunt Valley, creating an automated testing framework for their web portal to speed up the logging of bugs. Here he learned about the complexities of web pages and the Selenium web automation tool. That summer he did similar work as an intern at Booz Allen Hamilton.

As part of the SFS program, Oliver hops to intern at the National Security Agency. His plans after graduating in May 2014 are to explore work in the governmental sphere before pursuing a Ph.D. in Cybersecurity.

Brandyn Schult

Major: B.A. Human Ecology, M.P.S. Cybersecurity ‘14

Lured by UMBC’s distinction as a CAE school and its prime location in the “Silicon Valley of Cyber”, Brandyn Schult joined UMBC’s Cybersecurity M.P.S. program in Fall 2012 to broaden his understanding of Cybersecurity. He is now part of UMBC’s Cyber Defense Lab (CDL).

“What I like about Information Assurance and Cybersecurity is that they are not bound by many technical limitations and new practices are constantly being developed,” explains Brandyn, who graduated from the College of the Atlantic, Maine with a B.A. in Human Ecology. “What we have as students is a chance to help shape a new discipline and that is exciting.”

Brandyn speculates that the biggest cyber threat we face today isn’t from outside sources, like viruses or hackers, but from “the legacy infrastructure that the cyber domain is built on and the users’ interaction with it.” He cites IPv4 and SCADA systems at a fundamental problem. “It’s 2012, yet we are still using technology from the 70’s and 80’s as the foundation for the technology today and tomorrow.”

Brendan Masiar

Major: B.A. Philosophy '11, M.P.S. Cybersecurity '13
Hometown: East Islip, NY

After graduating from UMBC a year ago with a Bachelor’s in Philosophy, Brendan Masiar came right back to pursue his passion for Computer Science. He chose UMBC’s graduate program in Cybersecurity because he saw it as “a perfect blend of [his] humanities and technical background.”

“I love that the field is constantly developing and evolving,” says Brendan of Cybersecurity. “There is no definitive end point to cybersecurity, ” he says, “some new attack vector will always be out there.” Brendan thinks cell phones and mobile devices that enable us to do things like online baking, check mail, and other private tasks, are our biggest cyber threat. “The risk for data loss and identity fraud is going to be more and more rampant.”

Right now Brendan is interning at Tresys Technology in Columbia, where he works on testing and developing software. After finishing up school, he will be looking for a job within Maryland’s IT industry. “My dream job is one that will be setting precedents, whether it be through policy or through methods used,” he explains.  His role model is Dr. Steven Yalowitz of UMBC’s Philosophy Department, who got Brendan hooked on the subject. “I hope one day to instill that same curiosity into others.”

Lisa Mathews

Major: M.S. Computer Engineering, Ph.D. Computer Science '15

What is it about Cybersecurity and Information Assurance that appeals to Ph.D. student Lisa Matthews? “They are challenging fields that provide many opportunities to apply one’s knowledge and skill set to tackle various security issues or vulnerabilities,” explains Lisa. “Protecting computers and information from various threats is an important function, especially given the number of security attacks that have happened and are likely to occur.”

Lisa thinks that a new wave of “low-and-slow” attacks—ones that surreptitiously strike in different phases and can spend days, weeks, or even months weakening a system’s defenses–are a big threat. “These are difficult to detect, hard to contain, and can do considerable damage before they are stopped.” In fact, Lisa is working towards a solution to these types of attacks with her thesis research. “My current research is focused on taking a semantic approach to intrusion detection by combining data from various sources, integrating data, and performing additional analysis using a knowledge base that would enable the detection of a threat or attack. This method should prove to be useful in stopping attacks that follow a low-and-sow intrusion pattern.”

After graduating, Lisa hopes to work for one of the Department of Defense agencies. “My dream job is one where I can continue research on the constantly evolving fields of information assurance and cybersecurity,” she says. “This scholarship is providing me a great opportunity to attain this job.”

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society. UMBC has an active ACM student chapter that is open to all UMBC undergraduate and graduate students of any major.

While you do not need to join ACM to be a part of the local chapter, the annual membership dues for students is only $19, heavily discounted from the non-student rate. See the ACM site for more information on student membership and its benefits.

This year the chapter is planning to have monthly meetings where faculty members, ACM distinguished speakers, and local tech companies will talk about various interesting topics. These meetings are tentatively planned for the third Wednesday of every month starting in October. Other activities like board game nights or our Welcome Back Picnic are also in the works. Suggestions on speakers or other events are welcome and can be sent to Sorry, you need javascript to view this email address.

Please stop by for these events for which we will send out detail as they get confirmed. Sign up for the UMBC ACM mailing list to become a part of the local chapter and receive updates and news of its activities and events.