(Paid) Job Opportunity doing program for chemistry prof.

[Victor Norman]

CS majors,

Prof. Doug Vander Griend in Chemistry has a grant to enhance his chemistry project called SIVVU, and he is looking to hire a CS major to do the work.  Here is a description of the work:

>From DVG: My program, called SIVVU, takes the UV vis absorbance data from a spectrophotometric titration and models the chemistry according to general chemistry principles (applied on a multidimensional scale). Functionally it uploads a multi-worksheet Excel file (data and models 1 - n), then optimizes the model parameters which dictate how the data is to be deconvoluted. The outputs include free energy values and molar absorptivity curves along with various figures of merit for the optimization. I have a fully functional version of my program as a matlab executable so I can assure you the math and science are all fully developed (http://www.calvin.edu/~dav4/Sivvu.htm)

Presently the site runs locally on my computer and functions properly.

What needs to be addressed yet is
1) Launch site via web
2) Make site look much slicker
3) Add a few more input options and code their impact
4) Add a few more output options in the code
5) Clean up graphical outputs for presentation through the web
6) Design appropriate user management system
7) Design appropriate business infrastructure (e.g., taking credit card numbers)
8) Teach me how to administer site

There are many attractive parts to this project:

  1.  You get to work on a system that is really going to be used.
  2.  You get to test your reimplementation against an existing implementation to make sure your new code is correct.
  3.  You get to learn web app technology for a real project.
  4.  You get paid (pay will be determined based on a student's grade level and/or experience).
  5.  You can work whenever it is convenient for you (within reason, of course).
  6.  You will get paid to do computer programming, not cleaning locker rooms like I did when I was a student...
  7.  You might learn some cool chemistry.

If you want more info and/or apply for this position, please speak/email Prof. Vander Griend.  I cc-ed him on this email.

Prof. Norman
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Prof. Victor Norman
Computer Science Dept., Calvin College
vtn2 at calvin.edu<mailto:vtn2 at calvin.edu> / 616 526-7805<tel:616%20526-7805>


"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -- Antoine de Saint Exupéry

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