We caught up with UNN-IOL Alumni, Joel Nkounkou, who is originally from Dover, NH. Joel is a former HighTech Bound intern from the summer of 2013 and continued on to work at the lab as a programmer in our SAS, SATA, and PCIe Testing Services. Overall, Joel worked at the lab from 2013-2018 and graduated from UNH last year with his BS in Electrical Engineering. Check out our interview with Joel in this blog!
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Last week the IOL hosted its first monthly day-long hackathon, aptly titled “Hack Day.” Hack Day will be a recurring event focused on creating a time and place to get started on the IOL’s most pressing projects.
For our first Hack Day we tackled three main projects. One of the challenges being worked on was a revamp of the visitor login system. The goal for this project was to have a digital system where visitors could login and alert...
The UNH-InterOperability Lab kicked off 2019 with the Hack New Hampshire event for college students. The teams consisted of three to four students in all majors; from the College of Engineering and Physical Science to the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics. The goal for the 24 hour Hackathon was to create and execute an idea to make the state of New Hampshire safer or more sustainable. The students came up with ideas from implementing a “walking-buddy” system...
Hello reader! My name is Carter Snay, and I have been working at the UNH-IOL since March 2017. I was initially working in the iSCSI testing service, but moved to NVMe in August of 2017 where I currently still work. I am an Environmental Science major, which is different than all of my peers who are either IT or CS. Generally I’ll get a confused look when a vendor asks me what I’m studying, but I’m still able to do...
The UNH-InterOperability Lab is the exclusive 3rd party test house for the Ethernet Alliance (EA) Power over Ethernet (PoE) Certification Program. The PoE Certification Program aims to assure interoperability of products based on IEEE Std 802.3™-2018 PoE standards. Passing products are eligible for listing on the Ethernet Alliance Certified Product Registry. PoE technology grants the ability to deliver power over data communications cabling for IP networks. The Ethernet Alliance is currently developing the Gen-2 PoE Certification Program, which includes an...
Hi I’m Kate Bacon, and I was an intern at the UNH InterOperability Lab during the summer of 2018. If you’re reading this you’re probably wondering more about being an intern at the IOL, what you will be doing here, and who you will be working with. You’re probably feeling all of the same emotions I was feeling before I started my internship. I am here to tell you about my experience at the IOL, what I learned, and the...
Last week concluded the second annual UNH-IOL Hackathon held here at the lab. The UNH-IOL hackathon is an event where programmers get together for a short period of time to collaborate on a project that will benefit the lab in some way or another. The Hackathon is a week long event for UNH student employees to step away from their day-to-day grind and work together to provide long-term solutions for various lab wide projects. Students from all majors were broken...
We are excited to share the big news, we have officially hired 14 interns for the upcoming 13th year of our HighTech Bound Program. Their first day is Monday, July 9, 2018. We couldn't have done anything without the support of our 2018 Sponsors .
We caught up with IOL Alum, Andrew Wood, who was a donor in the annual UNH 603 Challenge to the IOL Gift Fund. Andrew worked at the lab from 2011-2014 and graduated from UNH in 2015 with his BS in Outdoor Education and went on to receive his Masters in Educational Studies in 2017. I asked Andrew why he donated to the IOL Gift Fund and what it meant to him. and now I turn it over to him (enjoy!):...
I admit when I walked into the IOL on my first day as a HighTech Bound Intern, I was nervous. When my technology teacher informed me of the internship during my junior year of high school, I had no idea that my decision to apply would help shape many of my future college decisions and life experiences.
I was eager to start my position as soon as I had discovered my acceptance. I walked into a room surrounded by...