The mentor's lab is part of the environmental sensing and monitoring research focus within PSU's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His group focuses on the use of machine learning and signal processing in understanding environmental phenomena.
Forest Park is one of the largest urban parks in the United States, with approximately 60 miles of trails. As a result, maintaining a database of trail hazards and obstructions is key to keeping these trails usable by Portland residents. Building on work from previous years, the goal of this project is to develop an Android-based system for reporting trail hazards, uploading these hazards to the cloud, organizing them in a central database, and displaying information on a website.
The intern will gain experience coding in Flutter for app development, as well as Python and TypeScript for database management. Daily activities will involve implementing new features within the existing Android app and improving the database functionality. By the end of the internship the student will have extended the functionality of the app and/or trail hazard database. This is a part-time internship, with the expectation that the intern will work at least 200 hours over the course of the summer.
The mentor loves working with students who are self-directed learners, who can teach him new things as well. To learn more about the mentor and his work, see here. To view previous work done on this project, check out the GitHub page here.
PSU Disability Services
It is University policy to grant reasonable accommodations to students with disabilities that may affect their ability to participate in course activities or to meet course requirements. Students with disabilities are encouraged to discuss their needs as soon as they receive acceptance of this ASE position. After acceptance, please also provide a letter of accommodations from PSU Disability Services (http://www.pdx.edu/drc/).
PSU Diversity Statement
Respect for cultural and human biological diversity are core concepts at PSU. Each voice has something of value to contribute to a discussion. PSU is committed to diversity, and welcomes individuals of all ages, backgrounds, citizenship, disability, education, ethnicity, family status, gender, gender identity, geographical location, language, military experience, political views, race, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status and work experience (See https://www.pdx.edu/sphr/diversity-statement).
We strongly encourage students to apply who are from one or more systemically and historically excluded group, including but not limited to, non-cis-gendered students, girls, BIPOC, first-generation college bound students, low-income/low-resourced students, students with disabilities, who are neurodivergent, and those who speak a primary language other than English.
This internship is 100% virtual, however, applicants must live with 50 miles of the internship location to be eligible for this position due to the ASE Program in-person activities. To reduce the risks of coronavirus exposure, mentors and interns will act in accordance with applicable COVID guidelines and procedures at in-person events. Selected applicants will be required to review and sign a waiver agreement.
If you have any questions about the application, website technical issues and/or this position description, please contact Saturday Academy at ase@saturdayacademy.org. Do not contact the mentor directly. Contacting the mentor directly is grounds for disqualification of your ASE application.