Undergraduate Employment Opportunities

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SnP Lab Research Assistant

The MTU Security and Privacy (SnP) Lab is recruiting one hourly-paid research assistant for Summer 2024. The position is supported by GLRC/ICC Rapid Seedling Research Funding. Requirements:

  • The candidate is interested in cybersecurity and has some basic knowledge of cybersecurity.
  • The candidate has good programming skills and is eager to learn.
  • It is preferred that the candidate has a basic understanding of the Control Area Network (CAN) protocol.

Please send your resume to Prof. Bo Chen (bchen@mtu.edu) and Niusen Chen (niusenc@mtu.edu) if you are interested.

Posted April 15, 2024

Undergraduate Paid Research Assistants

Weihua Zhou, Applied Computing, is looking for undergraduate student research assistants with a computer science/computer engineering background. Hourly pay will be offered. Students will learn advanced skills in deep learning for medical image analysis and computer vision.

Interested? Please contact Dr. Zhou at whzhou@mtu.edu.

Renewed April 15, 2024

Security and Privacy Lab Assistants

The MTU Security and Privacy Lab is looking for undergraduate students who are interested in working on security and privacy problems in the Spring 2024 semester. Undergraduate students who worked in the SnP lab received recognitions including Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), departmental scholar, etc. The qualifications are as follows:

1) The candidate should be eager to tackle technical challenges in cybersecurity.
2) The candidate should have good programming skills.
3) Candidates who have embedded systems programming/operating system programming experience would be a plus.

If you are interested, please send your resume to Prof. Bo Chen (bchen@mtu.edu).

Posted December 5, 2023

Software Developer Position

Associate Professor Scott Kuhl, Computer Science, is seeking graduate and undergraduate job applicants for a software developer position. The software developer will help develop, improve, and deploy educational tools to introduce students to mechatronics. The project entails updating and improving an existing 3D industrial robot simulator written in Java, and a PLC educational website written in PHP.

The software developer will also leverage Canvas to develop from scratch other educational tools for online use. Knowledge of mechatronics, PLCs, and industrial robots is not required for the position, as others working on the project can provide assistance in developing those educational materials. Experience with web technologies is strongly preferred.

Part of an NSF ExLENT grant, this hourly project starts in Fall 2023; it is expected that the position will continue through the Spring and Summer 2024 semesters. Please apply here. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Questions? Please email Scott Kuhl at kuhl@mtu.eduVisit Dr. Kuhl’s website here.

Renewed December 5, 2023