Admit Day 2003

Schedule Welcome and Overview (1:55-2:05) Geoff Voelker, CSE Asst. Prof. Questions and Answers (2:35-3:00) 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 (3:00-4:30) Meet in Price Center Ballroom

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

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

Curriculum Advanced courses State-of-the-art computing resources System design (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)

CSE classes taught by an outstanding faculty Large and diverse: 43 and growing! Distinguished IEEE fellows, ACM fellows, Packard fellows, Sloan fellows, NSF young investigators, Research Impact George Varghese: high-speed Internet routing Mihir Belare: SSL cryptography Henrik Wann Jensen: computer graphics Excellence in teaching Pasquale, Varghese, Bailey, Voelker recent teaching awards

CSE has many opportunities outside the classroom Environment 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

Environment 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

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

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

Information CSE Web pages Q & A today CSE Student Affairs 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