Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

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Neha RawalAssociate Director, ICS Student Affairs

Computers and technology are everywhere

Medicine: Imaging Humanities: Data Mining

Biological & Physical Sciences: Modeling

Art, Education, & Social Ecology

Interdisciplinary Education

Only School of Computing in the UC

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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

Corporate Connections

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

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

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

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)

Faculty Excellence & Accessibility

• 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

Women in Information and Computer Sciences (WICS) SAGE Scholars

WICS/Girls Inc. EcoRaft Demo

Building a Diverse Community

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

QUESTIONS?

Get prompt responses and different perspectives:

• Academic counselors/peer advisors:– ucounsel@uci.edu– 949-824-5156 (M-F 8-5)

• Faculty:– Tony Givargis

Associate Dean for Student Affairsadsa@ics.uci.edu