INTEL PARTNERSHIP

PARTNERING WITH INTEL

Enterprise Projects are partnerships with local, regional, and national companies in which Neumont students execute day-to-day development and deliverables on a project of the partner’s choosing–as if they are company employees. This opportunity provides students with real-world experience in industry long before graduation. The student teams are managed by both a Neumont representative–Director of Career Services Britta Nelson, or Career Services Manager Amy Whittaker–and a representative from the partner company to ensure all expectations are met. Recently, Neumont College was thrilled to partner with Intel Corporation, global technology company based in Silicon Valley, for an Enterprise Project centered around technology readiness.

Intel inquired about a partnership in search of students to work on their oneAPI Toolkits–an initiative to bring a unified program to industry that cultivates a common developer experience across many different accelerator architectures. Neumont students, Savannah Krause, Elijah Shauermann, Jesse Leal, and Kaedian Maxfield were assigned to Intel’s team based on their experience and abilities. Each student was then allocated tasks pertaining to different applications related to their skillset and interests. Individually, they were responsible for analyzing the code base toward migration to oneAPI DPC++ language. Right off the bat, Intel’s representative had encouraging words stating, “I am very pleased with everyone. I think we are off to a good start and beating expectations.”  

Savannah Krause

Most of the technology being utilized wasn’t familiar to Neumont students, requiring them to adapt quickly and analyze new code they didn’t have previous experience with. Savannah Krause, software and game development major and Capstone Project Invitational Alumni Choice winner, described the project as challenging. Krause said, “Almost everything we are touching is new. Whether it be the language, the workflow, licensing, or anything else, every application has presented a new challenge and we must adapt quickly to get things done. We have to dig really deep into some massive code bases and be able to pick it apart for functionality and architecture.”

In the ten-week partnership period, the students utilized Python, Fortran, and C++ to analyze migration readiness of multiple third-party applications into DPC++. Enterprise Projects often span over multiple quarters and this was only the beginning of our partnership with Intel.