Category Archives: Industrial Year

Posts that are useful for students thinking about taking a year in industry.

IY placements at NHS Wales Informatics Service

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IY placements at NHS Wales Informatics Service (NWIS) emailed to us by Kalee Thomas (Kalee.Thomas@wales.nhs.uk). She says:

We are delighted to inform you that we would like to offer second year students to apply for an industrial placement within our Organisation. We are offering a maximum of four places and these can be offered in a variety of our offices across Wales in the following areas:

· Software Development
· Software Support & Business Analysis
· Software Testing
· Networking
· Data Centre Services
· Information Services
· Email & Multi Media

If any of your students would like to apply for a placement with is please advise them to send a CV to Kalee.Thomas@wales.nhs.uk or Julia.Denyer@wales.nhs.uk along with a covering letter informing us which of the areas listed above they would be interested in. We will shortlist from there and invite appropriate candidates to come in and speak to us with relevant managers.

If you have any further question then please do not hesitate in contacting me.

Kind regards

Kalee

IY at Buhler Sortex in image processsing

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IY at Buhler Sortex in image processsing (Greater London, deadline 17 March, £18,300) :

Buhler is a global market leader in the supply of flour production plants, pasta and chocolate production lines and animal feed manufacturing installations. They are currently seeking applications for an Image Processing placement. As a member of the Research team, the successful candidate will experience most aspects of research at Buhler Sortex. The main focus of the research is to investigate image processing and computer vision algorithms. A significant part of the role is writing Matlab code, a programming language widely used throughout academia and industry for rapid prototyping. The role includes undertaking experiments, learning new computer algorithms as well as experimenting with algorithms that learn.

The successful candidate will be working with 50 professional engineers to design the next generation of optical sorting machines. The size of the projects will vary, for some projects they will work independently, for others as part of a team.

Previous student projects:

Pioneering a new method for sorting food products. This involved implementing and evaluating the performance of several machine learning algorithms and selecting the most suitable solution for a specific application

Investigating the factors affecting how grains flow down a chute. This involved capturing image data and analysing this data to develop a suitable algorithm; then coding this algorithm in Matlab to product a software utility for use by other engineers.

Skills and requirements:

Applicants should have ability in computing, mathematics and engineering, with a keen interest in images and computing, including how computers can be used to extract information from images. Applicants do not need previous experience in machine vision or Matlab which can be learnt on the job.

To apply, please e-mail your CV and a covering letter outlining why you’ve chosen this placement to – hrukrecruitment@buhlersortex.com with ‘Image Processing Student Placement’ in the subject line.

Intergral GmbH IY positions (6 possible)

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Intergral (http://www.intergral.com) are an SME near Stuttgart, Germany.  I visited the company a few months back and it is a fantastic place to work (it is a ‘spin off’ set up by two ex Hewlett Packard employees from the UK).  They work in English so German is not necessary.  There is an Aber student there this year.  You need to be very good technically and have a strong work ethic…  I copy a couple of comment the CEO passed on to me:

“A trend has been noticed in the series of interviews we have had thus far. A lot of the applicants have been very focused towards the design and building of websites. Whereas, Intergral is looking more for the design and creation of ‘web applications‘ rather than ‘web sites‘. It may be worth mentioning to students with an interest in the web position to ensure they have at least a good understanding of server-side languages such as PHP in addition to the front-end technologies listed in the job description. Additionally, they will definitely benefit greatly from becoming acquainted with cloud architecture and some of the frameworks/methodologies used to accomplish it.”

Here are the job details:

Student Positions 20161ICT