Spring Career Expo: Sponsored by Kohler Co.

Today the Career Development Center hosted a Career Expo, sponsored by Kohler Co. – it’s time to start thinking about Summer internships and job opportunities!

The following employers attended:

ACCORD Corporation
Alfred Ceramic Art Museum
Alfred University Summer Programs
Allegany ARC
Allegany County Probation Department
Allegany State Park
Amphenol Aerospace
AVI Foodsystems Inc.
Buck’s Rock Performing and Creative Arts Camp
Carosa Stanton Asset Management/Sentinel Publications
CertainTeed Corporation
Elderwood at Hornell
Enterprise Holdings
EverSource
Hidden Valley 4-H Camp
Hornell Area Concern for Youth
Hornell City School District
Kohler Company
NAPOLEON ENGINEERING SERVICES
New York State Police
Paychex
Peace Corps
Samtec
Steuben Trust Company
Tam Ceramics
The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes
The Guidance Center
The Sill
United States Marine Corps
UPS
Verizon Wireless

 

Alfred University Drone Club (SaxonFly) Takes Off for Test Flight

A group of intrepid Alfred University Drone Club (SaxonFly) members met at Jericho Hill today to fly their Phantom 3 Professional drone.  The group of five flew for about an hour, testing and improving their flight skills on this windy day – nothing like field testing to get the heart pumping!

SaxonFly’s President and Vice-President, Eric Witowski (Senior, Mechanical Engineering) and Jason St. John (Junior, Finance), aim for weekly flights as they move forward to develop photographic, and precision agricultural commercial applications for their drones in Alleghany County and Steuben County.  Eric also mentioned that he hopes to work with the local high school STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) training programs.

Fiat Lux!

LAW241 Guest Speaker: Mrs. Shequeila Birdsong of the US Department of Labor

 

Mrs. Shequeila Birdsong and Ms. Amber O’Dierno of the US Department of Labor spoke to Alfred University students today about Wage and Hour legal issues. They gave many interesting examples of industries that were being investigated for non-compliance with federal minimum wage requirements.

Mrs. Birdsong is the Community Outreach and Planning Specialist for the Federal Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division.  She began her federal service with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) where she spent a decade working in various positions.  Her final position at the IRS was as a Taxpayer Advocate.

Digital Direct Infrared Inc.: Thermal Infrared Imaging

 

Digital Direct IR, Inc.’s management spoke to potential investors, scientists, professionals, and academics this morning about their firm and strategy.

Thermal Infrared Imaging has been used for many years and is an indispensable tool for Law Enforcement, First Responders and all aspects of the military, as well as industrial, medical, environmental, diagnostic and research uses. Presently the market for Thermal Imaging Cameras is over $ 30 billion annually and growing at over 5% CAGR /year. Digital Direct Infrared (D2IR) has developed a revolutionary way to broaden the spectrum available on lens, improve image quality and lower cost. The concept has been proved though sophisticated computer simulations.

Digital Direct IR, Inc.’s Dual-Spectrum Direct-to Digital IR imaging and companion Ultra-Wide-Spectrum optics (lenses) will be able to offer much lower cost, equal or better performance as well as many new capabilities to address the new needs of the military, security, medical, environmental and scientific worlds.

LAW241 Guest Speaker: Paul Simon from the EPA

 

Paul Simon is the Deputy Regional Counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 2. In that capacity, he works closely with the Regional Counsel in the management and direction of the Office of Regional Counsel (ORC), an office of approximately 80 lawyers who provide legal support for Region 2’s implementation and enforcement of the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Solid Waste Disposal Act, the federal Superfund law, and a number of other federal environmental statutes. Paul helps to set priorities, strategies and goals for the office and provides guidance to and oversight of the office’s work units.

In 2011-2012, Paul did a stint as EPA Region 2’s senior policy advisor on climate change issues. In 2009, he served on a 4-month detail in EPA Headquarters as the Acting Deputy Director of the Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water.

Before becoming Deputy Regional Counsel in 2005, Paul was the Chief of ORC’s New York/Caribbean Superfund Branch, and as such, managed that branch’s judicial and administrative enforcement efforts concerning hundreds of Superfund sites in New York, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Paul joined EPA in 1985 as a staff attorney, and became a first-line supervisor in 1989. Before coming to EPA, Paul was a litigation attorney with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources.

Paul earned his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and his B.A. from Harvard University.