Application for Applied Computer Science Groups
                 Computer Science Department, Earlham College

* * * * The Application Deadline is Friday, December 17th, 2010 at 4pm   * * * *
* * * *   Turn in completed applications to Jim Rogers or Charlie Peck   * * * *
* * * *      Applicants will be notified of results in early January     * * * *

All members of the Applied CS Groups must register for CS-281:Applied Groups
for either 0 or 1 Credit in each semester that they are working in the group.
You can register for 1 Credit in one semester of each of three years.  (A 
maximum of 1 Credit per year, 3 Credits total.)  

1) Name 

2) Email address

3) Campus phone 

4) Please rank, in order of your interest, the following groups.  Rank the
group you are most interested in "1". Indicate equal interest by giving the
groups the same numerical rank.

  ___   CS Content Administration 

  ___   CS Pedagogical Tools 

  ___   CS System and Network Administration  

  ___   DBI Group (Database Interfacing Group---WebDB)

  ___   HIP (hardware interfacing project)

  ___   Green Science

  ___   ECS System Administration


5) Are you committed to working an average of about 10 hours each week during
the semester?  




6) Are you committed for about 1.5 years for this position?  




7) Are you willing to take the initiative to read documentation, learn command
syntax and solve problems with only slight assistance? 




(The following three questions are intended to help us determine what
conflicts there may be for your time.  Please answer as clearly and completely
as you can.  Conflicts do not rule out participation; we simply need to be
able to predict the level of coverage we will have.)

8a) Do you have work study commitments currently?  Do you have a workstudy
award? How many hours per week does it permit you to work?  Would you give-up
your other work study position if necessary?




8b) Are you planning on going on an off-campus study program?




8c) What extracurricular activities do you participate in?  Are there intervals
during the semester in which these activities may preempt your work with the
group?  




9) Are you interested in working on campus on applied CS activities during
this coming or another summer?  How about during the December/January or March 
breaks?  (This is not a requirement, merely a statement of interest).  




10) If you haven't declared a major yet what is it likely to be?  (These groups
are not restricted to CS majors but, with the exception of Green Science,
preference is given to majors or those who intend to be majors.)




11) Have you read the SAGE Code of Ethics, The Earlham Privacy Policy and the
Earlham Acceptable Use Policy?  Are you comfortable living with such
strictures? (Please see the attached pages). 




12) Check the appropriate spots below.  Note that these aren't requirements, 
we're just getting a sense of your experience and your future plans.

Have Taken   Committed to Taking

  ___               ___           Advanced Programming

  ___               ___           Algorithms and Data Structures 

  ___               ___           Principles of Computer Organization

  ___               ___           Theory of Computation                 

  ___               ___           Operating Systems                     

  ___               ___           Database Systems                      

  ___               ___           Software Engineering                  

  ___               ___           Networks and Networking               

  ___               ___           Programming Languages           

  ___               ___           Graphics               

  ___               ___           Parallel and Distributed Computing 

  ___               ___           Electronics and Instrumentation 
  
  ___               ___           Physics of Green Energy


13) Write a paragraph or more telling us why you are interested in this work,
what you hope to learn, and what you feel you have to offer.  Include a summary
of the computer languages, tools, etc. that you are comfortable with.  Attach
your essay to this application.

14) Please attach a copy of your current transcript (from WebDB) to this
application.


   By signing this application you are acknowledging that you understand that
you may be given elevated privileges on ECCS and/or ECS systems and you are
agreeing to not use these privileges for any reason not directly pertaining to
the tasks you are given.


Signature ___________________________________   Date _________________________