1. Admit Day 2003

2. 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

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

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 (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)

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

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 summer 2004

11. Information CSE Web pages Q & A today CSE Student Affairs
Q & A today
Handouts available
CSE Student Affairs
3402 AP&M / UCSD /
9500 Gilman Dr / La Jolla 92093
Phone: Fax:
Take the CSE tour!
Led by current undergraduates
There to answer your questions, too