1. Welcome to Computer Science and Engineering Your Hosts Neelam Soundarajan, faculty member Matt Nedrich, PhD student Kevin Streib, PhD student

2. Why Computer Science? Intellectually stimulating, challenging Innovative Changing society

3. A Society-Changing Field Computing impacts everything we do How we do our work How we spend our leisure time How we access information and what information we can access How we communicate and with whom How healthcare is delivered and to whom A wide range of future careers IT, medicine, finance, art, security, energy

4. Some of the OSU Computer Science Research Areas Speech recognition Data mining Graphics & animation Networking Software engineering Parallel computing Scientific visualization Distributed computing Computational geometry

5. Computer Science Core Software development Computer architecture Database systems Numerical methods Operating systems Programming languages

6. Computer Science Options Software systems Information systems Information & Computation Assurance Hardware/software systems Individualized

7. To Be a CSE Major You Must complete CSE 221 and 222 with C- or better complete Math 151.xx and 152.xx complete Physics 131 complete Chemistry 121 or Physics 132 complete English 110.xx GPA of 2.0 or better with 25 or more credits at OSU complete admissions conditions

8. How About a Minor in Computer Science? Two tracks to choose from: Programming & algorithms track Information Systems Track Only 7 classes required Courses taken depend on track chosen

9. Who Hires OSU CIS and CSE Graduates? Lockheed Martin Facebook Electronic Arts US Army Marathon Ashland Petroleum Citrix Eaton Grange Pixar Wright Patterson AFB Harris Apple Intel Microsoft Dell Nationwide OSU Dreamworks Northrop Grumman JPMorgan Chase

10. Sample Job Titles System Administrator Software Engineer Visual Designer Quality Data Analyst Applications Software Developer Consultant Healthcare Systems Consultant Programmer Analyst Networking Scientist System Analyst Video Game Programmer

11. Show Me the Money $56,382 – average starting salary for OSU CSE graduates this year $18.21 – average hourly wage for OSU co- ops and interns this year

12. Computing jobs Best Job in America (job growth & pay) CNN Money Magazine 2006

13. Career Outlook for Engineering Fields

14. Why CS @ OSU? Small CS class sizes Flexible course offerings Research Quality faculty & advising Affordability High demand for graduates Accredited Programs

15. SEMESTER CONVERSION Summer 2012 CSE is in the first wave University committed to a seamless transition Pledge to students

16. Much More Info at: CSE Department Homepage CSE Undergraduate Programs

17. Questions? Please feel free to contact: peg@cse.ohio-state.edu (Peg Steele is our Academic Advisor; unfortunately, she couldn't attend today.) neelam@cse.ohio-state.edu