1. Update: ICS and UCI Admissions

2. Medical/Health Technologies: hardware, software, integrated devices, informatics GPS, Navigation, Pilot Training and Flight Systems: hardware, software, networks, informatics Personal devices: Hardware, software applications, games, communications, databases, networks, informatics Biotech: Research & development in areas of biology, genomics, physics, astronomy and other sciences Automotive: Integrated embedded systems, network technology, operating systems Personal tablets: Hardware, software, applications, networks, games, informatics PCs: Hardware, wireless networks, graphics, operating systems, applications, games, software

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4. Medicine: Imaging Humanities: Data Mining Biological & Physical Sciences: Modeling Art, Education, & Social Ecology ICS faculty are engaged in interdisciplinary research at UCI, across UC, and with fellow researchers at various academic and private institutions worldwide. We have 5 majors with an interdisciplinary focus: Business Information Management Congruence of commerce and technology from a micro perspective Computer Game Science Computing, art, humanities Computer Science and Engineering Computer science and computer engineering Data Science Computing, statistics Informatics 3 specializations (health, social issues, commerce & tech from macro perspective)

5. Founded in 1968 as Department of Information and Computer ScienceFounded in 1968 as Department of Information and Computer Science Established in 2002 as an independent schoolEstablished in 2002 as an independent school Only computing-focused school in UC systemOnly computing-focused school in UC system Three departments:Three departments: –Computer Science –Informatics –Statistics

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7. 7 Majors7 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) –Data Science –Informatics –Software Engineering –The ICS major should not be listed on any publication or mentioned at all 6 Minors (some major and minor combinations are restricted)6 Minors (some major and minor combinations are restricted) –Bioinformatics –Digital Information Systems –Health Informatics –Informatics –Information and Computer Science –Statistics

8. All are B.S. degrees Our students gets hands- on, project based learning experience Some majors have two quarter to one-year long senior-design project courses CGS, CSE, DS INF, SE Other majors allow students to select project courses from an extensive list of options BIM, CS

9. 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)

10. One of our undergrads mentoring middle school students as part of AppJam+ Kickoff reception of Autism AppJam. UCI joins teams with Chapman University to develop a mobile app that will be helpful to children and/or adults with autism. April is Autism Awareness Month. Winners of the 2014 Butterworth Product Development Competition. 1st Place Prize Winners ($7,500): Team Blueberry- Karan Sekhri, Adrien Deguzman, Sheng Xia, Tai Cao, Derek Omuro

11. ICS Day, an annual student festival, includes games, coding competitions, corporate outreach booths, free food, a dunk tank and live entertainment by UCI dance crews. Google and Blizzard are regular visitors to Bren Hall, hosting tech talks and career workshops, as well as helping to sponsor events hosted by student organizations. Amazon is currently expanding its offices in Irvine, growing its smartphone, tablet, and gaming technologies. Josh Tanenbaum runs The Global Game Jam (GGJ) is the world's largest game jam event (game creation) taking place around the world at physical locations. Think of it as a hackathon focused on game development. It is the growth of an idea that in today’s heavily connected world, we could come together, be creative, share experiences and express ourselves in a multitude of ways using video games – it is very universal. The weekend stirs a global creative buzz in games, while at the same time exploring the process of development, be it programming, iterative design, narrative exploration or artistic expression. It is all condensed into a 48 hour development cycle. The GGJ encourages people with all kinds of backgrounds to participate and contribute to this global spread of game development and creativity

12. Job opportunities 1 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: $60,000 median starting salary for Bren School grads (vs. $40,000 for UCI grads as a whole) 2 1 Bureau of Labor Statistics, “The 30 fastest-growing occupations, 2006-2016” 2 UCI Career Center Graduating Senior Survey, 2012

13. We are growing! Edna Valdez (SAO II) joined us in April from the Registrar’s Office We are currently in interviews to hire another SAO II undergraduate counselor Undergraduate Advising Team: Neha Rawal, Associate Director Jessica Shanahan, ICS Academic Counselor Michelle Nguyen, ICS Academic Counselor Edna Valdez, ICS Academic Counselor New Hire 4 Peer Advisors ICS Student Affairs staff you should know: Kris Bolcer, Director Lumen Hwang, ICS Instructional Support Manager Mare Stasik, Office Manager

16. Number of students in ICS through the years: 2016: 2269 2015: 2025 2014: 1600 2013: 1176 2012: 923 2015-16: ICS admitted over 300 students from change of major applications alone. Fall 2016: ICS will have it largest new student population of over 850 students. 250% growth in 5 years

17. The change of major policies for the following majors have been updated: Computer Game Science Computer Science Informatics Software Engineering Changes includes updates to: GPA and course criteria, unit caps (60 or 90 units), and school expectations of applicants It is highly unlikely that a student will be granted any exceptions to the change of major policy.

18. What are we looking for? –One year of Computing/Computer Science 1 programming language course and 1 higher level computing course is strongly preferred, if not 2 programming language courses Higher level of Computing is great! –Data Structures, Advanced Data Structures –Assembly Language Programming Languages –Python, C++, or Java (in that order) –No Visual Basic, C, C# –Please do not admit this combo: »1 Intro to CS and 1 programming class. »They will be here at UCI for 3+ years and start from the beginning of the curriculum. »This would place them at a great financial disadvantage and in classes with freshmen. –It is best to admit students with multiple programming courses in C++ and data structures. –AP Computer Science does not count as a class –One year of Mathematics Calculus for all majors, except Informatics Linear algebra, discrete math or boolean algebra are excellent substitutes –For Informatics, one semester of Mathematics Prefer Statistics or Boolean Algebra

19. Staff questions regarding exceptions to policy, an admissions decision about applicants, or other administrative questions about our program: Contact Neha Rawal, Associate Director for Student Affairs: –neha@ics.uci.eduneha@ics.uci.edu –(949) 824-5884 (direct, private line) –(949) 824-5156 (public line) –If Neha is not available, please contact Kris Bolcer, Director of ICS Student Affairs, at kris@ics.uci.edu, (949) 824-2277 (direct, private line) All inquiries are sent to Neha and not other ICS academic counselors

20. Exceptions to policy for Transfers: –C in ANY required course, student will not be granted exception Decision comes directly from ICS Associate Dean, along with these guidelines: –Student may not be admitted into our majors or allowed into summer orientation if they do not meet admissions criteria; offer must be rescinded. –Summer courses may not be used for exception review –Informatics may not be used as a change of major »Students really don’t want it and repeatedly ask advising staff for change of major back into their first major of choice »Students do not make satisfactory progress toward this degree while incurring financial debt In reviewing disqualifications, ICS Student Affairs noticed a pattern. Students who are weak in math did not do well in our majors.

21. We are always happy to answer any questions you, applicants, their family members may have: Academic counselors/peer advisors: –ucounsel@uci.eduucounsel@uci.edu –(949) 824-5156 (M-F: 9-12, 1-5) Articulation questions or reviews: –Neha Rawal, neha@ics.uci.edu –(949) 824-5884 (admissions staff only) Faculty: –Gopi Meenakshisundaram, Associate Dean for Student Affairs adsa@ics.uci.edu

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