Admit Day 2002Admit Day 2002

ScheduleSchedule

Welcome and Overview (12:25-12:35)

Geoff Voelker, Asst. Prof. Questions and Answers (1:05-1:30)

Pat Raczka, CSE Undergrad Program Director Nieves Rankin, CSE Student Affairs Director Emily Jamias, CSE Student Affairs Coordinator Paul Kube, CSE Vice-Chair

CSE Tours (1:35-3:15)

Meet outside room in ballroom lobby

CSE at UCSDCSE at UCSD

Why come to CSE at UCSD?

1. Exceptionally strong and rigorous curriculum

2. Outstanding teaching and research faculty

3. Rich extracurricular environment

CurriculumCurriculumCSE offers a broad and deep curriculum

Founded on practical and theoretical basics… Leading to advanced topics…

Networking, systems, AI, architecture, theory, etc.

And rich multidisciplinary areas… High-performance computing, bioinformatics, computer

vision, graphics, cognitive science, e-commerce, etc.

Four degrees provide flexibility BA/CS, BS/CS, BS/CE, BS/CS with a specialization in

Bioinformatics (new, nationally innovative)

5-year BS/MS program for advanced study

CurriculumCurriculum

Advanced courses System design (games!) Mobile computing

State-of-the-art computing resources Instructional labs donated by Sun,

Microsoft, Intel, Micron, etc. Wireless for laptops and PDAs Supercomputers at SDSC (gigabits,

teraflops, and petabytes)

FacultyFacultyCSE classes taught by an outstanding faculty

Large and diverse: 35 and growing! Distinguished

IEEE fellows, ACM fellows, Packard fellows, NSF young investigators

Research Impact George Varghese: high-speed Internet routing Mihir Belare: SSL cryptography

Excellence in teaching Varghese, Bailey, Voelker recent teaching awards

EnvironmentEnvironment

CSE has many opportunities outside the classroom

Lab and teaching assistanceships Undergrads assist in many of our courses Great way to learn, interact closely with faculty

World-class research opportunities Projects with graduate students and faculty Key opportunity of a research university CSE and San Diego Supercomputer Center

EnvironmentEnvironment

Strong connections with industry Both local and national companies

• Microsoft, Sun, HP, IBM, Qualcomm, Ericsson, Sony, etc.

Many students do internships/coops for credit Apply academic knowledge in real world settings

EnvironmentEnvironment Join an outstanding university

UCSD is the best public-university science campus in the country

• Only Caltech, Stanford, MIT ranked higher (1997)

Join outstanding students in CSE ACM Programming Contest First place in SoCal region In World Finals past 3 years

EnvironmentEnvironment

Join us in a new building Centrally located with other engineering depts New, larger instructional labs Moving in summer 2004

InformationInformation CSE Web pages

http://www.cse.ucsd.edu

Q & A today Handouts available

CSE Student Affairs 3402 AP&M / UCSD / 9500 Gilman Dr / La Jolla 92093 Phone: 858-534-3621 Fax: 858-534-7029

Take the CSE tour! Led by current undergraduates There to answer your questions, too