Research on
Technology, Industries, and Entrepreneurship
with Professor Ken Simons
for Undergraduate Positions during Fall or Spring
Positions are generally available for continuing RPI undergraduates and for RPI PhD students. This form is for undergraduates for fall or spring. See the website www.rpi.edu/~simonk for information about any available positions.
Fill out and email to . Use “UG Job Application” in the Subject, and send from an RPI email address.
Basic Info
Name:
Email:
Phone (home):
Phone (cell):
Your major:
Expected date of graduation:
For credit or pay? Enter an X in your choice:
Pay only ____ Credit only ____ Pay if possible, otherwise credit ____
Course credits desired (1 to 4):
How credit works: You may receive course credit at the 4000 level in Economics. This counts as an elective course. Following the normal RPI course load expectation, a 4-credit course is equivalent to 10 hours per week (2-credit is 5 hours, etc.). Summer course credit requires paying RPI for the credits.
Any particular reasons for your interest?
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Skills / Resources / Interests
To consider what aspects of the project you are more or less able to help with, please mark an X for, or fill out, any parts that apply.
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Software & Computer Skills
MS Word ____ MS Excel ____
Macintosh ____ Unix ____
Statistical software: (specify)
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Optical character recognition ____
Programming:
LiveCode / RunRev ____
SQL ____
C / C++ ____
Regular expressions ___
Internet scripting ___
iMacros ____
MPI/OpenMP/Etc.: ____
other (specify): ______
(Attach a programming resume if desired.)
Travel
Have a car ____
Sometimes go to a major city (specify):
Sometimes go to another country (specify):
Literature Search Skills
Patent experience (including looking up patents) ____
Library research experience ____
EconLit ____
Social Science Citation Index ____
Dissertation Abstracts ____
Are you an unusually good writer? Why?
Non-English languages you can read:
(indicate F=fluent, S=some skills)
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Work Experience (employer, job, dates):
For research-intensive jobs, please attach your transcript with grades. You can save the electronic webpage as a pdf file, or copy and paste at the end of this document.
References
Please provide 1-2 contacts for references (e.g., RPI faculty or staff who supervised jobs, or other people as appropriate). Please list name, phone number, and email.
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Schedule
What other activities do you have? For classes, how intensive is your class schedule?
Realistically, how many hours per week do you expect you can devote to this project?
Please X out times when you have schedule conflicts (if only X during one hour, say so):
Mon. / Tue. / Wed. / Thurs. / Fri. / Sat.8-10 am
10-12 am
12-2 pm
2-4 pm
4-6 pm
Thank you!
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