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College career fairs.

This is all well and good, but speaking as a non-engineering college student, you're going to have to weed out A LOT of non-engineers at a general college career fair.

If you're hiring just for engineer/developer types, I would go straight to the college of engineering's professors and/or career center. You may be able to get the professors to send out e-mails to their students about the opportunity, or have the career center let you hold info sessions for interested students.

Some colleges have engineering- or even cs-specific career fairs. I know Virginia Tech does...it's called the CSRC fair, and it's held twice a year. I recruit there for my company, and we get everyone from sophomores looking for internships to PhDs looking for full-time research positions. Many of the grad students have industry experience as well if you're looking for candidates who aren't completely inexperienced.

Other engineering colleges likely have the same thing.

http://www.cs.vt.edu/partnering/employer

Josh - to be a little more useful, I'm a senior at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and I'd be glad to pass along your job opportunity to engin/CS seniors I know here if you have a blurb and contact info I can forward them.

I'll echo this comment and offer to pass along any job opportunities to the students I teach (CS at Manhattan College in NYC).

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