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Welcome to the Bren School of ICS. Diana Tien Undergraduate Counselor ICS Student Affairs. One: The Flagship School!. * UCI RVINE. UCIrvine. Two: Interdisciplinary Education. Exploring the intersection of computing and IT with other disciplines leads to:
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Welcome to the Bren School of ICS Diana Tien Undergraduate Counselor ICS Student Affairs
One: The Flagship School! * UCIRVINE UCIrvine
Two: Interdisciplinary Education • Exploring the intersection of computing and IT with • other disciplines leads to: • Courses at the cutting edge of inquiry and research • Technological advances that improve quality of life • Global market competitiveness Medicine: Imaging Humanities: Data Mining Biological & Physical Sciences: Modeling Art, Education, & Social Ecology
Three: Curricular Diversity • Business Information Management (jointly, with The Paul Merage School of Business) • Computer Science- Biomedical Computing was merged here • Students may choose to complete 1 or more of 8 specializations: Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Information, Intelligent Systems, Networked Systems, Systems and Software, Visual Computing • Computer Science & Engineering (jointly, with The Henry Samueli School of Engineering) • Students complete one of 4 tracks: Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Graphics/Vision, Parallel and Distributed Computing • Informatics • Students complete 1 of 2 specializations: Human-Computer Interaction or Organizations and Information Technology • ICS Undeclared (Pre-Major for freshmen only) • Software Engineering
Three: Curricular Diversity • Concentrations (available by application to continuing students only) • Engineering/ICS in the Global Context (study/internship outside of the U.S.) • Bren ICS Minors* • Bioinformatics: contributes to students' competence in computing applied to biomedical problems and data, as well as exposing them to the fundamentals of the life sciences from a computer science perspective. • Digital Information Systems • Health Informatics: prepares students to understand the expanding role of information technology (IT) in health care and to participate in creating IT solutions to health care issues. • Informatics • Information and Computer Science • Statistics • * Some minor requirements may be fulfilled by the Bren ICS student’s major requirements. Some major/minor combinations are restricted.
Three: Curricular Diversity Information and Computer Science People, Organizations Circuits, Devices Informatics Computer Science Computer Scienceand Engineering Software Engineering Computer Game Science Business Information Management Entertainment Arts Commerce
Five: Committed to Student Success • Introductory programming courses assume no prior knowledge or experience • Paired programming • Lab tutors (FREE) and small group tutoring at LARC (Fee) • First Year Seminar for New Students • Academic counselors and peer advisors • Continuous, from summer orientation to graduation • Inform students about programs/opportunities that enhance learning and build their resumé • Guide students to appropriate campus resources • Associate Dean for Student Affairs • Weekly drop-in hours • Hosts faculty/student mixers
Eight: Employment Prospects • Job opportunities1 in: • Network systems and data communications analysts • Computer software engineers, applications • Computer systems analysts • Database administrators • Computer software engineers/systems software • $trong knowledge and $kill $et: • $61,000 median starting salary for Bren School grads • (vs. $42,900 for UCI grads as a whole)2 1Bureau of Labor Statistics, “The 30 fastest-growing occupations, 2006-2016” 2 UCI Career Center Graduating Senior Survey, 2007-08
Ten: Student Community & Diversity Bren Brawl: Friendly competition among student gamers Bren:ICS students at UCI Leadership Conference ICS/Blizzard Alumni Night Student Showcase 2011 participants ICS Student Council members at ICS/Boeing Alumni Night
Applicants can get 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 Affairs adsa@ics.uci.edu Questions?
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