Events Listing

Join us for a live presentation on Zoom to discuss common non-immigrant visas and green card options for international students, including recent developments. Sarah Peterson, a nationally-recognized immigration attorney based in Minneapolis with over 16 years of advanced employment-based immigration experience, will discuss strategies and answer questions. This event will be held via Zoom on Thursday, October 12th at 12:00 p.m., and it will include a live Question and Answer opportunity with Sarah who will be present to address some questions from the audience. This session will be recorded and shared on the ISSS website.

Please register for the event.

Join us for a presentation discussing the various types of employment-based visas (including H-1B) and paths to permanent residency (“green card”). The presentation will be done by Jesse Goldfarb, a local immigration attorney at Nilan Johnson Lewis. This event will be held via Zoom on Wednesday, October 11th from 12:00pm-1:30pm CT, and it will include a live Question and Answer opportunity with Jesse who will be present to address your questions. This event will also be recorded and shared on the ISSS website. 

Presentations open to all UMN international students, and UMN staff and faculty, read about and register for the event.

IEEE UMN Student Branch will be hosting a quantum computing workshop as a Qiskit Fall Fest Extension Event next week.

Come learn about the possibilities of quantum computing with host Onri Jay Benally. Co-hosts will be Ali from MQA (UMN Quantum Computing Club) and Mural (IEEE).

Learn about electrification!

Explore the latest technological advancements in the future of electrification at the Minnesota Center for Electrification Opportunity's (CEO) "Electroposium 2023: Shaping the Electrified Future."

Hosted by CSE's Technological Leadership Institute, the Electroposium will feature hands-on training, informational sessions, breakout sessions, and networking with industry professionals and academic experts. The event is free for University of Minnesota students. 

For more information and to register, visit the Electroposium 2023 website.

Quantum materials: a new paradigm for sensing

Quantum materials provide responses and states of matter with no classical analogs. As such, they offer opportunities to create various platforms for future devices crucial to human health, energy efficiency, communications, and imaging. I will describe the physics challenges and sensing opportunities these materials offer. I will then focus on using the relativistic electrons in graphene for biosensing. Specifically, we have developed a new platform for multiplexed, rapid, easy-to-use detectors of biological analytes. I will discuss the unique aspects of graphene involved, resulting in our demonstration of the detection of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, decease biomarkers in saliva, opioids in wastewater, and respiratory infection at clinically relevant levels. Time permitting, I will explain our efforts to use quantum materials to create new quantum simulators.

IEEE UMN Student Branch will have a social on Wednesday, September 27th at 6:30 in the IEEE lounge in Keller Hall. Room 2-110. Join us to chill, eat, and relax. Ask some questions and get connected with amazing people.

Microelectronics security in CHIPS era

The CHIPS Act has brought much needed excitement for onshoring/reshoring the front-end and back-end fabrication test and facilities. However, much of the security concerns during the design of modern system on chips (SoCs) or system-in-package (SiPs) have little to do with onshoring. This talk will discuss challenges to securing silicon development lifecycle with CHIPS in place, offer solutions to engineers and practitioners, and present research challenges and opportunities for academics.

Established in 2009, the Eleanore Hale Wilson Fund supports engineering field leaders for travel to Minnesota to share their expertise and discoveries with University of Minnesota graduate students, faculty, and alumni. The Fund also supports the reception held in honor of each speaker. 

A list of employers is available at Handshake. The event takes place from noon to 6:00 PM on September 19 and September 20.

Get all the information you need to prepare for the CSE Career Fair.

Get ready for the CSE career fair this week by touching up that resume. IEEE UMN and Marvell are hosting a resume review event today! RSVP for the event

The event runs from 5:30PM to 7:30PM in room 3-180 Keller Hall. 

Flexible and Printed Bioelectronic Sensors

Flexible and printed electronics are ideally suited for sensing applications that require conformable and easily-customizable circuits. In this talk, I will briefly introduce the materials and fabrication processes that enable flexible electronics, and the potential benefits for applications in medical research and health care. I will discuss two applications from our recent work that use flexible bioelectronic sensing arrays: (1) chronic multimodal neural interface devices using transparent, inkjet-printed electrocorticography (ECoG) arrays, and (2) wearable skin sensor patches for real-time, continuous monitoring of chemical biomarkers. To expand the capabilities of such flexible sensors, our group is also developing strategies to incorporate flexible transistors into otherwise passive sensor devices. In that area, I will present our recent progress combining solution-processed oxide semiconductors with novel photonic processing techniques to produce flexible transistors.

Speaker bio

Sarah Swisher is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota. She received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. Her current research sits at the intersection of semiconductor device physics, materials science, and bioengineering. She leverages the benefits of flexible electronics to enable advancements in biological sensors and medical devices. Her research approach is collaborative and multidisciplinary, with ties to the Center for Neuroengineering, the Institute for Engineering in Medicine, and the Translational Center for Resuscitative Trauma Care. Her recent awards include the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Intel Foundation Robert Noyce Memorial Fellowship in Microelectronics, and the Russell J. Penrose Excellence in Teaching Award.

Established in 2009, the Eleanore Hale Wilson Fund supports engineering field leaders for travel to Minnesota to share their expertise and discoveries with University of Minnesota graduate students, faculty, and alumni. The Fund also supports the reception held in honor of each speaker.