SWE - Fall 2007 - (Page 56) A B E T P R O G R A M E VA L UATO R S : T H E FAC E O F Q UA L I TY I N T E C H N I C A L E D U C AT I O N Are you a good communicator? A true team player? A respected member of your profession? Then you may qualify to serve as an ABET program evaluator. Program evaluators are dedicated technical professionals — deans, department heads, faculty, industry leaders, government representatives, and private practitioners — with a demonstrated interest in contributing to their professions and improving higher education. As a program evaluator, you can help ensure that today’s technical graduates are prepared to be tomorrow’s technical workforce. Visit www.abet.org/volunteer.shtml for the program evaluator’s job description, minimum qualifications, desired competencies, instructions for applying, and more. Leadership and Quality Assurance in Applied Science, Computing, Engineering, and Technology Education 111 Market Place, Suite 1050 Baltimore, MD 21202 (410) 347-7700 www.abet.org progress in this fledgling field, they had to attract people from science and engineering, not just experts in finance, but people who brought ingenuity and vision, who could effectively communicate highly technical subjects, and only had to know the basics of finance. Because they recognized this, the need today is even greater and the opportunities bigger. I Wanted: Financial Engineers A sampling of a few want ads indicates the level of skills and experience that employers seek. Equity Derivatives Financial Engineer / C++ Expert (London) A leading global investment bank is looking for a senior quant developer to work on optimizing the computational speed and accuracy of pricing models used within exotic equity derivatives. The successful applicant will be a senior C++ developer with experience of architecture and code optimization (e.g. in a pricing library for exotic derivatives) and strong communication skills to enable close interaction with other financial engineers with IT and infrastructure. Derivatives Trading Firm/Hedge Fund Seeks a Sr. Financial Engineer to Join Their Growing Team (Wall Street) The primary responsibility is to develop Excel and Matlab applications/models to analyze various trading strategies for listed options and some OTC derivative contracts. As a part of this duty, the senior financial engineer will also engage in analysis and research of new trading strategies in discussion with the IT and trading staff, however the focus will be on delivery of back-tested trading tools and strategies. Financial Engineer – FX / FX Options (San Francisco) We are seeking a financial engineer with previous work experience in the FX and FX option market. Responsibilities include developing algorithms for pricing and risk management, testing, documentation as well as interaction with clients. Knowledge of OO programming and Java preferred. Primary responsibilities include: developing pricing algorithms for FX and FX option products; evaluating existing pricing and risk functionality, identifying problems/gaps and creating an action plan to address them; testing and documenting pricing algorithms developed; communicating FE-related issues internally as well as externally to clients and prospects. We understand that business ventures and projects are best handled by a diverse group of people. The right people. . . Our people. Foster Wheeler USA Corporation is a global engineering and construction contractor and power equipment supplier renowned for delivering unparalleled quality, technologically advanced reliable facilities and equipment on time, on budget, and with a world-class safety record. We are light years ahead of our competitors because we clearly understand that diversified business ventures and projects are best handled by a diverse group of people – our people. They are our most important asset. And we want you to be among them. www.fwc.com 56 SWE FALL 2007 http://www.abet.org/volunteer.shtml http://www.abet.org http://www.abet.org http://www.fwc.com http://www.fwc.com
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