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Questions Many New Students Have

Questions Many New Students Have. Richard Frost Professor of Computer Science. Questions. What kind of careers are available to graduates of various Computer Science degree programs? What will the first year be like? How good are the Computer Science professors? How good are the students?.

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Questions Many New Students Have

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  1. Questions Many New Students Have Richard Frost Professor of Computer Science

  2. Questions • What kind of careers are available to graduates of various Computer Science degree programs? • What will the first year be like? • How good are the Computer Science professors? How good are the students?

  3. Careers for Computer Science Graduates • Best and Worst jobs 2011 http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/st_BESTJOBS0104_20110105.html • Software Engineers • Computer Scientists • Games Developers • Systems Analysts • Database Administrators • Bioinformaticians • Etc. www.bls.gov/oco/home.htm

  4. Courses Required – First Yearhttp://www.uwindsor.ca/calendars

  5. The School of Computer Science • ~ 400 Undergraduate Students • ~ 60 Master’s and ~30 Doctoral Students • 20 Faculty (all have doctorates) • ~15 Sessional Instructors • 4 Admin. and 3 Technical Support Staff • 50 Graduate Teaching Assistants • 4 Undergraduate Labs + other facilities • 10 Graduate Research Labs.

  6. Some Facts about CS teachers • Two Computer Science professors recently won Ontario Teaching awards. Both had previously won the top University of Windsor Teaching Award. • A CS professor served as Chairman of the Canadian Society for the Study of Computational Intelligence. • Another CS professor is a Canada Research Chair in Bioinformatics. • In 2011, CS professors were awarded over $500,000 in research grants for Cutting-Edge research

  7. Computer Science Student Achievements • One of our Alumni is University Liaison Officer for Electronic Arts (Worldwidewww.fifa08.ea.com/uk/ • Start-up companies: Red Piston, Avatar, Govital, Thotlab, • 2011: Several on President’s Role, 12 new Outstanding Scholars, 6 NSERC USRAs. • Many success stories can be found at www.cs.uwindsor.ca

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