Tonights IT Law Class is cancelled

Tonight's IT Law & professional issues evening class with Paul Bourke (Wednesday 25/2/09) is cancelled. Normal classes resume next week.

Repeats for full time students - IMPORTANT

Full time students:

Repeat exams take place in September. You have to register with the exams office to take the repeat exams.

If you received a Repeat Continuous Assessment (RCA) or Repeat All Components (RAC) code in semester 1, you must contact the lecturer of that course urgently and make an arrangement to resubmit your continuous assessment work this semester.

If you fail any subjects this semester you can retake the exam in the supplemental sitting in September, but any CA cannot be repeated until the first semester of next year. This means you will have to pay another half years fees to DIT.

You must pass all subjects to be allowed to register for the Research Project and Dissertation subject in May. You may be allowed to carry one subject, but if you fail more than one subject you will have to pass those and come back in the next academic year to do your thesis. This will also mean you will have to pay another half years fees to DIT.

If you need further information, please see the course document and the DIT general Assessment Regulations.

Postgrad Ireland fair...

Visit the official national postgraduate study event for students and graduates in Ireland north and south – recommended by your careers service. There will be hundreds of postgraduate courses and research opportunities.

There are over 100 exhibitors from across Ireland, Northern Ireland and overseas, and a talks programme including seminars on studying, funding and applications, and how to decide what type of postgraduate course is right for you.

18 February. For more information see:

http://postgradireland.com/fair/

Case studies in IT

...continues this Saturday @ 11am. The results of assignment 2 are now online:

Bryan

Talk on the design of gaming hardware

Next Monday, Peter Sheehan (Industrial Design Director from the company Design Partners (www.designpartners.com) will present a talk entitled:

‘Gaming Hardware Design – Logitech & Design Partners’

Peter acts as Creative Director for Logitech (for at least 8 years) on their mice, keyboards, headset, and their new range of Gaming Hardware

Examples of some of his designs can be found at

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/gaming/pc_gaming/mice_keyboards/&cl=roeu,en

The talk will be in room K2-008 at 1pm

All are welcome

Careers events

From Mark Deegan:

Please find below a list of events being arranged by the School of Computing and DIT Careers Service for Semester 2.

This list is not yet complete, but we will add events as companies and individuals confirm.

Some of these events will be related to careers issues, others will be more technical and of more general interest to staff and students alike.

Please feel free to forward this to any of your friends, colleagues, students etc.

http://www.comp.dit.ie/careers/Calendar/index.shtml

Thanks.

Mk.

Sun Academic Initiative

From Dan MacCormac

There will be a brief talk on "Intro to Sun and SAI (Sun Academic
Initiative)" on Tuesday 3rd Feb Room KE 1-008 from 1-2pm.
The talk will introduce the role of Sun Microsystems in DIT, and outline
how students can take advantage of SAI programme which allows DIT students
to take Sun Certification exams for free! All are welcome to attend.

Universal Design & Business Systems

In addition to the full time timetables elective subjects, you can also take the following:

Universal Design - Monday 7pm-10pm Room KE 1-002 (full and part time students)


Business Systems Intelligence Monday 7pm-10pm - Room G26 (Evening version for part time students)

Students should attend the first class of all option subjects before selecting the 2 you wish to choose.