1 / 12

HONORS PROGRAM INFO SESSION Vice Chair for Undergraduate Matters Professor David Wagner

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE. HONORS PROGRAM INFO SESSION Vice Chair for Undergraduate Matters Professor David Wagner. HONORS PROGRAM. Initiated by Eugene Wong, a former chair of the department 20 years ago To provide students with a broader education. Why work even harder?.

isleen
Download Presentation

HONORS PROGRAM INFO SESSION Vice Chair for Undergraduate Matters Professor David Wagner

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE HONORS PROGRAM INFO SESSIONVice Chair for Undergraduate MattersProfessor David Wagner

  2. HONORS PROGRAM • Initiated by Eugene Wong, a former chair of the department 20 years ago • To provide students with a broader education

  3. Why work even harder? • Engineering field is very broad • Applications depend on synergism between sub-disciplines, e.g. comm theory, circuits, computing • Opportunities increasingly in applications • Expertise beyond engineering field

  4. Career Benefits • Competitive edge • Grad school • Internships • Employment opportunities

  5. Benefits of the Program • Official notation of honors degree on Berkeley transcript • Many honors students do very well and receive departmental awards • Bi-annual dinner with faculty

  6. SuccessfulHonors Application • Typically in junior or sophomore year • A clear idea of what you want to do that goes beyond the “normal degree”: • Expertise in non-EECS field (e.g. minor in physics, MCB, music, cognitive science, …) • Research experience (not required at application time)

  7. Eligibility Requirements • At least 45 units completed at Berkeley.  (This may also include up to ten AP units.)  • Junior Transfers applicants must have completed at least 12 units at UCB and typically apply at the end of their second semester. • Completion of lower-division requirements for the degree. • Minimum overall GPA of 3.7. • Applicants with only one semester remaining are not typically admitted.

  8. Program Requirements: • Fulfill all degree requirements in EECS or L&S CS. • At least four units of supervised 199 Independent Study, EECS 199, H196, or other approved research, taken on a P/NP graded basis. • A breadth requirement, consisting of at least 3 upper division courses (totaling at least 10 units) taken for a letter grade, outside the College of Engineering.  • The breadth requirement courses may be taken in a single department, or in related departments if they address a unifying theme. 

  9. HONORS ACHIEVEMENTS National Awards National Science Foundation Fellowships Katherine Yiu, Allen Tsou Honorable Mention: Allen Gu, Kun Gao, Daniel Hsu Computing Research Association Outstanding Undergraduates Award Finalists: Margaret Yau, Meng Yu Honorable Mention: Kun Gao Michael Yu EECS Departmental Awards Departmental Citation 2008 Matthew Johnson Warren Dere Chua Award 2008 Wai Son (Wilson) Ko Arthur M. Hopkin Award 2008 Pamela Lee Liang Jie Wong

  10. EECS Departmental Scholarships • Boeing Scholarship  Hideaki Oshima, Ellen Zeng, Amy Wu • Chevron-Texaco Scholarship Amy Wu • Ford Motor Company Scholarship Michelle Xue, Robert Hennessy • Information Technology Scholarship Kun Gao, Xiaofan (Fred) Jiang, Meng Yu, Margaret Yau, Sam Mardanbeig, Chung Ming Wu • Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award Chung Ming Wu • Vodafone-US Foundation Scholarship Hansen Bow, Tanya Gordeeva, Sahand N. Negahban, Philip Godoy • Mark D. Weiser Excellence in Computing Scholarship Chung Ming Wu

  11. SELECTION • The committee evaluates applications  for various signs of aptitude including: a well-written essay, above-average course loads, sincere commitment to a breadth area outside EECS, and grades. • Other factors that may strengthen an application include: departmental or campus service, undergraduate research experience, and interest in attending graduate school.

  12. TO APPLY • Download an application from the website, or from the Center for Student Affairs in 205 Cory Hall.  http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Programs/honors.html • Applications accepted twice yearly; the deadline is typically the last day of classes each semester. • Deadline: Friday, December 4, 2009

More Related