Engineering promotion goes Hollywood
Kimberly Lien
Issue date: 4/24/07 Section: News
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The storyline of "Law and Disorder: The Test Engineering Story" incorporates elements of comedy and education to promote the Test Development Engineering Program at SJSU.
"I came up with the idea after a couple beers," said electrical engineering Assistant Professor Tamara Schmitz.
Schmitz is in her fifth year of teaching at SJSU and her third year of coordinating the Test Development Engineering Program.
On April 17, the program hosted a DVD release and premiere party for engineering faculty, students and industry professionals.
"Instead of a pamphlet or flyer that you stick on telephone poles," Schmitz said, "we wanted to do something fun."
The event was semi-formal and guests were encouraged to mingle and network with each other throughout the evening's events.
"It's never bad to have people come together to exchange ideas," Schmitz said.
Shiva Sharma, a senior majoring in electrical engineering, attended the event and he said he was able to network with companies such as Summit Microelectronics, National Semiconductor, Intersil and Apple.
Other companies that were represented at the event include Cisco Systems, Applied Materials and Alliance ATE Consulting Group.
"I'll be sending them my resumes later on this week," Sharma said.
As a student in the Test Development Program, Sharma said he was able to gain a real world perspective and problem solving skills through the classes and labs offered through the program.
"In every other lab class I've taken," Sharma said, "the lab manual provides an outline of the steps required to get the right end result. This is not indicative of the way real world problems are solved.
"There is no lab manual for the Test Engineering class and this requires us to use knowledge from every engineering class we've ever taken to solve the problems before us."
While Sharma was able to network with professional members of the industry he plans to enter after graduation, he said he would have liked to see more SJSU faculty at the function.
"I think last night was a success," Sharma said, "because it was a great promotional tool for the Test Development Engineering Program and at the same time provided networking opportunities. I only wish that more electrical engineering faculty had come out last night to support the program. Industry representatives outnumbered faculty members."
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