Student/Faculty Lunch 2005

University of California, BerkeleyCS Undergraduate Student Groups

Monday, March 28th, 2005

Presented by the CS Undergraduate Student Groups

Overview

•Resources• Student Programs• Courses• Research• Community• Questions

Resources

• AirBears coverage– Thank you for increasing coverage in Cory!– AirBears is still spotty on 6th & 7th floor Soda.

• South Side labs– HFA labs should be open to all CS students

Resources

• Students are interested in reading groups and talks but don’t know where to find information about them

• Suggestion: announce technical talks in lectures

Overview

• Resources

•Student Programs• Courses• Research• Community• Questions

Student Programs

• Current Internship Program– no better than CalJobs through the

Career Center.– offers no advantage for Berkeley

students.– does not ensure job positions that offer

challenging and applicable work.

Student Programs

• Current Internship Program Available

– Suggestion: Revert back to previous internship program with reserved internships for Berkeley students.

Student Programs

• Thesis in EECS Honors Program– EECS students feel that current Honors

Program has lost its prestige.– Possible solution:

• Option of completing a thesis in the Honors Program

• ~27% of students would find a thesis useful.

Student Programs

• CS Masters program – Students are interested in the Masters program and are excited that faculty is moving it forward

Overview

• Resources• Student Programs

•Courses• Research• Community• Questions

Courses

• Class Documents

– Students find lecture notes, project specs and homework well-prepared

Courses

• Last year students complained about the lack of accountability in partnership classes

– Students appreciate the individual projects in the lower division classes

Overview

• Resources• Student Programs• Courses

•Research• Community• Questions

Research

• Students are very interested in research

- gives them a better idea of what is expected in grad school

- students can discover what area of research most interests them

Research

• Still difficult for students to find research – URAP & UROP are not up-to-date

– there are not many options available for EECS students – Skill requirements are unclear – Students feel intimidated to approach

professors

Research

• Undergraduate research groups, like Gamesman, are popular and are a good way to introduce students to research – boosts confidence in finding research later on

Research• Suggestions

– encourage more professors to lead research groups for undergraduates

– professors can post a list of required background

knowledge so that students are better prepared to approach professors about research

– point out interesting research problems in class to excite students into doing research

– update web pages to reflect current research

opportunities

Overview

• Resources• Student Programs• Courses• Research

•Community• Questions

Community

• Why it is important

– Enables students to more effectively utilize existing resources

– Improves communication between students and faculty

– Encourages the sharing of ideas

Community

• We are making steps to facilitate community within the CS department

– Student-Faculty mixer on Tuesday April 1st, noon in the Woz

– Lecture series: Eric Brewer, April 6th

Questions?

Representatives• CSUA: Mike Hoisie, Aaron McKee, Karen

Nguyen • HKN: Tina Dong, Jessica Leung, Robert Liao,

Li Li, Leonard Wei, Hua Xu• IEEE: Kedar Shah• SWE: Jen Kelly• UPE: Kaisin Lin, David Sontag, Wei Tu

retreat@csua.berkeley.edu