Independent Studies withIndustry Partnership
John Cohn (Sr. Engineer, IBM) Joanna Ellis Monaghan (Math, St. Michael’s College)*Dan Nardi (Student, University of Vermont)Robert Snapp (CS, University of Vermont)
Goal To solicit industry applications that
provide rewarding independent study projects for both undergraduate and graduate students.
Make Contact Identify area industries. Start with community outreach person,
get in touch with a manager (keep trying until you get someone who seems interested)
emphasize potential benefit to the company
describe similar endeavors (for us, ground work was laid by very successful bio-informatics collaboration)
Have a forum A mechanism for facilitating the
building of individual relationships (for us, the “applied” combinatorics seminar).
Solicit problems Give industry presenters an
audience of potential collaborators, particularly faculty who can see the potential in the problems and then share them with students.
Select areas Combinatorics Operations Research Statistics Dynamical Systems Computer Science Biology Physics
(interdisciplinary as well as academic/industry collaboration)
Involving students These projects are generally very appealing to students
Not busywork--someone actually cares about the results.
Good for work experience and resume building. Potential source of non-academic letter of
reference. Summer job/co-op/permanent employment
potential
A Current Independent Study Goal of this project is to check a
chip’s design and find all occurrences of a simple pattern
Can be used to: Find possible error spots Check for already patented segments Locate particular devices
The Input The data to explain these patterns
comes in the following format (.gul)
BEGIN /* GULP2A CALLED ON THU FEB 21 15:08:23 2002 */EQUIV 1 1000 MICRON +X,+YMSGPER -1000000 -1000000 1000000 1000000 0 0HEADER GYMGL1 'OUTPUT 2002/02/21/14/47/12/cohn'LEVEL PCLEVEL RXCNAME ULTCB8AD
CELL ULTCB8AD PRIME PGON N RX 1467923 780300 1468180 780300 1468180 780600 + 1469020 780600 1469020 780300 1469181 780300 1469181 + 781710 1469020 781710 1469020 781400 1468180 781400 + 1468180 781710 1467923 781710 PGON N PC 1468500 782100 1468300 782100 1468300 781700 + 1468260 781700 1468260 780300 1468500 780300 1468500 + 780500 1468380 780500 1468380 781500 1468500 781500 RECT N PC 1467800 780345 1503 298ENDMSG
Sub-Graph Overlay Problem
Two different layers/rectangles are combined into onelayer that contains three shapes; one rectangle (purple)and two polygons (red and blue)
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