1. Admit Day 2004

2. CSE Schedule Welcome and Overview (11:10-11:20)
Geoff Voelker, CSE Assistant Professor
Meet the Department (11:35-12:00)
CSE Students, Faculty, and Staff
Questions and Answers Session (12:00-2:00)
Pat Raczka, CSE Undergrad Program Director
Nieves Rankin, CSE Student Affairs Director
Viera Kair, CSE Student Affairs Coordinator
Paul Kube, CSE Vice-Chair for Undergrad Affairs

3. CSE at UCSD Why come to CSE at UCSD?
1. Exceptionally strong and rigorous curriculum
2. Outstanding teaching and research faculty
3. Rich extracurricular environment
Combined, we prepare our students for
Leadership in a competitive high-tech job market
Advanced study in graduate school

4. CSE 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
Cross-disciplinary, nationally innovative
5-year BS/MS program for advanced study

5. Curriculum Advanced courses State-of-the-art computing resources
System design using games
Mobile computing
Computer graphics rendering
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)
Cyrus Jam
Craig Donner
Arash Keshmirian

6. CSE classes taught by an outstanding faculty
Large and diverse: 45 and growing!
Distinguished
Fellows of IEEE, ACM, Packard, Sloan, Guggenheim; NSF young investigators; Academy Award
Research Impact
George Varghese: high-speed Internet routing
Mihir Belare: SSL cryptography
Henrik Wann Jensen: computer graphics
Excellence in teaching
Pasquale, Vahdat, Varghese, Bailey, Voelker recent teaching award winners

7. CSE has many opportunities
Environment
CSE has many opportunities
outside the classroom
Lab and teaching assistants
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, San Diego Supercomputer Center

8. Environment Strong connections with industry
Both local and national companies
Microsoft, Sun, HP, IBM, Intel, Qualcomm, Ericsson, Sony, AT&T, …
Many students do internships/coops for credit
Apply academic knowledge in real-world settings

9. Environment 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
In World Finals past 4 years

10. Environment Join us in a new building
Centrally located with other engineering depts
New, larger instructional labs
Moving in Spring 2005

11. Information CSE Web pages Q & A today CSE Student Affairs
Q & A today
Price Center Ballroom
Cove Room (noon)
CSE Student Affairs
3402 AP&M / UCSD /
9500 Gilman Dr / La Jolla 92093
Phone: Fax: