Choosing a career path before college can be a scary process. The UNH-IOL partners with Oyster River High School to hold an internship program for students to receive school credit. This program helps high school students explore the wide scope of technical fields before committing to a major. Along with providing students with guidance towards their preferred academic field, the program allows the students to put their foot in the door and gain valuable experience before diving into academia. "Learning...
IOL Blog Entries for March 2015
Themes of the Career Paths in STEM Panel
By Marion Dillon - March 16, 2015
On Tuesday, February 24th , a group of UNH students gathered to meet members of various STEM industries to hear advice from professionals and to hone their networking skills. Participating companies included CDM Smith, Liberty Mutual, Raytheon, Summit Engineering, Texas Instruments, and QA Cafe. Dr. Robert Henry, from UNH’s Civil and Environmental Engineering department, moderated a panel session, where each panelist shared their take on their industry, and STEM fields as a whole.
As it often...
Issues and Limitations with DDR Memory
By Michael Klempa - March 9, 2015
Catching one of the last flights out of Boston and escaping one of the many Nor’easters, I learned a great deal about Double Data Rate (DDR) memory while attending DesignCon 2015. Many people know a little about memory - it is ubiquitous and essential in computer architecture. It’s especially present in the backbone of the internet, servers. And with cloud computing being the latest and greatest thing out there right now, most companies want the fastest memory available since memory...
Announcing Automated Remote iSCSI Testing
By Matthew Mayer - March 4, 2015
Since its launch in 2010, the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) Remote iSCSI Target Tester has been a test tool with great potential. The ability to remotely execute tests from both the Target Login and Target Full Feature Phase (FFP) Test Suites gives vendors the opportunity to tweak their implementation before shipping a device to the lab for full testing. Details specific to the Remote iSCSI Target Tester were discussed in a previous blog, “ ...