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The company said on Monday that it had selected eight Irish computer
science students who will work at the company's offices in Santry,
solving "real business problems" for the company and for its customers.
The
students involved include Kieran O'Mahoney, Martin Harrigan and Michael
Desmond, all from the University of Limerick (UL). From Trinity College
Dublin (TCD), Charles Smith (post-grad) and Darragh Curran will be part
of the program, as will Trevor Johnston and Cenk Kuzucu from Dublin
City University (DCU). Also, Brendan Arthurs from University College
Dublin (UCD) will go to work for the technology giant for the next four
months.
Susanne
Maier, development manager for IBM, said the eight were among the best
IT students in Ireland's universities. Between now and October, these
eight will be assigned to "cutting edge" projects from across the
Dublin software lab's product development portfolio, based on
technologies such as Java/J2EE and Lotus Notes development, using IBM's
WebSphere environment.
The
students, who will be paid for their work, will have mentors during the
summer but will be encouraged to think independently in order to
achieve specific goals set for them, Maier told ElectricNews.Net.
Mentors are carefully chosen to ensure they are experts in their
fields.
Before
returning to college in September to complete their final year, these
students will be taken to IBM's Research Laboratory in Boeblingen,
Germany, to present the results of their projects. Here, they will be
joined by ExtremeBlue participants from around Europe, where the scheme
has gone on for as long as three years in some countries.
IBM's
extension of the ExtremeBlue programme to Ireland comes just weeks
after IBEC's ICT Ireland, the organisation that represents the Irish
high-tech sector, launched another scheme to help give recent graduates
more exposure to high-tech firms. About 20 of ICT Ireland's members
have created 120 jobs between them, aimed at graduates with
qualifications in computer science and engineering. The jobs are not
part of any previously announced expansion schemes and they are also
designed to be separate from any graduate training/recruitment schemes
that participant companies currently run.
Graduates
in the program, entitled the ICT Ireland Graduate Placement Programme,
are to be paid a minimum if EUR8,000 for a six-month placement.
Companies such as Analog Devices, AOL, Apple, Dell, Eircom, EMC,
Ericsson, Esat BT, HP, Intel, Microsoft, Sun and Vodafone are
participating in the scheme.
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