1. Admit Day 2005

2. CSE Schedule Welcome and Overview (11:15-11:35)  Geoff Voelker, CSE Assistant Professor Meet the Department (11:40-12:05)  CSE Student Panel with Faculty and Staff  Q&A Session CSE Building Tour (12:05-12:10)  Meet in Price Center Theater Lobby Refreshments and Q&A (12:15-1:00)

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. Curriculum 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  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 Bellare: SSL cryptography  Henrik Wann Jensen: computer graphics Excellence in teaching  Pasquale, Vahdat recent university teaching award winners Faculty

7. Environment 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 CSE has many opportunities outside the classroom

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  Jacobs School of Engineering 11 th in nation, 6 th among public universities (USNews) Join outstanding students in CSE  ACM Programming Contest  World Finals past 5/6 years

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

11. Information CSE Web pages  http://www.cse.ucsd.edu Q & A today  Now and during tour CSE Student Affairs  3402 AP&M / UCSD /  9500 Gilman Dr / La Jolla 92093  Phone: 858-534-3621 Fax: 858-534-7029

12. Important People Pat Raczka  CSE Undergrad Program Director Viera Kair  CSE Student Affairs Coordinator Paul Kube  CSE Vice-Chair of Undergrad Affairs Keith Marzullo  CSE Professor, Assistant Chair of Undergrad Affairs