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Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences. Academic Information Session Neha Rawal Associate Director, ICS Student Affairs. Computers and technology are everywhere. Interdisciplinary Education. Medicine: Imaging. Humanities: Data Mining. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
AcademicInformation Session
Neha RawalAssociate Director, ICS Student Affairs
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Computers and technology are everywhere
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Medicine: Imaging Humanities: Data Mining
Biological & Physical Sciences: Modeling
Art, Education, & Social Ecology
Interdisciplinary Education
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Only School of Computing in the UC
*UCIRVINE UCIrvine
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Quick Facts about ICS
• Founded in 1968 as Department of Information and Computer Science
• Established in 2002 as an independent school
• Only computing-focused school in UC system
• Three departments:– Computer Science– Informatics– Statistics
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Corporate Connections
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Curricular Diversity
• 6 Majors– Business Information Management (with The Paul Merage School of
Business)
– Computer Game Science– Computer Science– Computer Science and Engineering (with The Henry Samueli
School of Engineering)
– Informatics– Software Engineering
• 6 Minors (some major and minor combinations are restricted)
– Bioinformatics– Digital Information Systems– Health Informatics– Informatics– Information and Computer Science– Statistics
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Curricular Diversity
UCI offers choices galore!
• 80 majors and 66 minors to date• Freshmen 1-unit seminars (limited to 15 students), such as:
– Sports & Statistics (ICS Dean Hal Stern, instructor), – DIY Electonics (Prof. Ian Harris, instructor), – Games for Learning, (Prof. Mark Warschauer, instructor)– Big Bang Theory
• UTeach Program seminars: Where Students Become the Teacher, topics include:
– How 2 Solve Puzzlers (ICS Peer Advisor Igii Enverga, student instructor, and Bren Professor Mike Goodrich, faculty advisor),
– Science & Craft of Coffee, – Harry Potter Muggle Culture
• Education Abroad Program
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Project-Based Learning
• Bachelors of Science degrees
• Some majors have two quarter to one-year long senior-design project courses
• CGS, CSE, INF, SE• Other majors allow
students to select their project courses from an extensive list of options
• CS
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Research Opportunities
• Student-initiated research• Bren:ICS Honors Program• UCI Undergraduate Research
Opportunities Program (UROP)– Provides guidance, funding and faculty
mentor• Campus programs that provide a
stipend and summer housing, such as:– Summer Undergraduate Research
Program– Summer Undergraduate Research
Fellowship in Information Technology (SURF-IT)
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Faculty Excellence & Accessibility
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• Engaged and accessible faculty— Weekly office hours by faculty and course TAs— Associate Dean hosts weekly drop-in hours
• Academic counseling staff— Help students find most efficient way to meet all their
academic goals— Inform students about programs/opportunities that
enhance learning and build their resume— Guide students to appropriate campus resources
• Learning & Academic Resource Center (LARC)— FREE workshops/tutoring & fee-based tutoring
• Math, Physics, and Chemistry Departments— FREE drop-in tutoring
• ICS Tutoring— Peer to peer (fee based)
Committed to Student Success
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Women in Information and Computer Sciences (WICS) SAGE Scholars
WICS/Girls Inc. EcoRaft Demo
Building a Diverse Community
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ICS Student Council members at ICS/Boeing Alumni Night
Bren Brawl: Friendly competition among student gamers
ICS/Blizzard Alumni Night
Student Showcase participants
Bren:ICS students at UCILeadership Conference
Student Life
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QUESTIONS?
Get prompt responses and different perspectives:
• Academic counselors/peer advisors:– [email protected]– 949-824-5156 (M-F 8-5)
• Faculty:– Tony Givargis
Associate Dean for Student [email protected]