1. Welcome to the Bren School of ICS Diana Tien Undergraduate Counselor ICS Student Affairs

3. One: The Flagship School! * UCI RVINE UCIrvine

4. Two: Interdisciplinary Education Exploring the intersection of computing and IT with other disciplines leads to: Courses at the cutting edge of inquiry and research Technological advances that improve quality of life Global market competitiveness Medicine: Imaging Humanities: Data Mining Biological & Physical Sciences: Modeling Art, Education, & Social Ecology

5. Three: Curricular Diversity sBusiness Information Management (jointly, with The Paul Merage School of Business) sComputer Science- Biomedical Computing was merged here sStudents may choose to complete 1 or more of 8 specializations: Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Information, Intelligent Systems, Networked Systems, Systems and Software, Visual Computing sComputer Science & Engineering (jointly, with The Henry Samueli School of Engineering) sStudents complete one of 4 tracks: Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Graphics/Vision, Parallel and Distributed Computing sInformatics sStudents complete 1 of 2 specializations: Human-Computer Interaction or Organizations and Information Technology sICS Undeclared (Pre-Major for freshmen only) sSoftware Engineering

6. Three: Curricular Diversity Concentrations (available by application to continuing students only) –Engineering/ICS in the Global Context (study/internship outside of the U.S.) Bren ICS Minors* –Bioinformatics: contributes to students' competence in computing applied to biomedical problems and data, as well as exposing them to the fundamentals of the life sciences from a computer science perspective. –Digital Information Systems –Health Informatics: prepares students to understand the expanding role of information technology (IT) in health care and to participate in creating IT solutions to health care issues. –Informatics –Information and Computer Science –Statistics * Some minor requirements may be fulfilled by the Bren ICS student’s major requirements. Some major/minor combinations are restricted.

7. Three: Curricular Diversity Informatics Computer Science Computer Science and Engineering People, Organizations Circuits, Devices Information and Computer Science Software Engineering Entertainment Arts Commerce Computer Game Science Business Information Management

8. Introductory programming courses assume no prior knowledge or experience  Paired programming  Lab tutors (FREE) and small group tutoring at LARC (Fee) First Year Seminar for New Students Academic counselors and peer advisors  Continuous, from summer orientation to graduation  Inform students about programs/opportunities that enhance learning and build their resumé  Guide students to appropriate campus resources Associate Dean for Student Affairs  Weekly drop-in hours  Hosts faculty/student mixers Five: Committed to Student Success

9. Six: Project-Based Learning

10. Seven: Industry Contacts

11. Eight: Employment Prospects 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: $61,000 median starting salary for Bren School grads (vs. $42,900 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, 2007-08

12. Nine: Faculty Excellence & Accessibility

13. Ten: Student Community & Diversity ICS Student Council members at ICS/Boeing Alumni Night Bren Brawl: Friendly competition among student gamers ICS/Blizzard Alumni Night Student Showcase 2011 participants Bren:ICS students at UCI Leadership Conference

14. Applicants can get responses and different perspectives: –Academic counselors/peer advisors: ucounsel@uci.edu 949-824-5156 (M-F 8-5) –Faculty: Tony Givargis, Associate Dean for Student Affairs adsa@ics.uci.edu Questions?

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