Hello, my name is Evice Bolton and I am a freshman pursuing an Electrical Engineering degree. I was introduced to the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) the summer before my senior year of high school as an intern in Serial Attached SCSI (SAS). Going into that internship I wasn’t sure what I wanted to major in, I was leaning towards Mechanical Engineering, but thought that Electrical Engineering might also be interesting. When I first started as an intern, it was incredibly overwhelming and everything was new to me! Nonetheless, everyone was really nice and helpful, they took the time to teach me the testing and answered the many questions I had. There were trips to some really amazing companies, where we got to learn more about the real world uses of the products that are tested in the lab and how technology continues to advance. The UNH-IOL not only functions as a place where vendors can get their products tested, but it’s also a wonderful resource for providing students with pertinent information for their future career fields.
IOL Blog Entries for July 2012
Ladies in the Lab
By - July 24, 2012
When telling people that I'm a Computer Science major, I'm often asked how I like being a woman in this field. I have yet to think of a satisfying answer to this question; I have never wanted to do anything else. The new Engineering and Physical Sciences building, Kingsbury Hall was just being completed when I arrived at the University of New Hampshire (UNH). Move-in day found me, with my Computer Engineering Dad by my side, poking our heads into empty classrooms and offices and gawking through windows into locked rooms filled with equipment.
Transitioning from Administrative Assistant to Operations Manager
By Kerry Munson - July 17, 2012
In August 2009, I was hired by the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) as the Lab’s receptionist. My background consisted of only basic computer and technical skills that I had obtained throughout my three years earning an Associate’s degree in Liberal Arts as along with prior experience growing up with a computer. A technical background was not as imperative in an administrative position as it would have been if I was hired into the lab as a technician in one of the consortiums. Over the next three years, I expanded my day to day responsibilities from answering phones and greeting visitors, to creating invoices, becoming an expert shipper, assisting with the hiring process and much more. Still after three years, I only had an elementary understanding of what the different consortiums did here at the lab.
Tale of a Civil Engineer
By Jessica Constant - July 11, 2012
Hey everyone its Jessica Constant from the Digital Living Consortium (DLC)! I am a junior Civil Engineering major at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and I would like to share with you my experience coming into the UNH-IOL as a Civil Engineering major. Most of the gentlemen in the DLC have majors that relate to computer sciences, such as Information Technology (IT) and Electrical Engineering (EE). Luckily, they are very patient and take the time to teach certain technical details, such as counting in binary. Coming into the lab was intimidating for me, knowing almost all of my coworkers had a computer science background.