Transcript Questions Many Potential Students Have Before Considering

Questions Many New Students Have
Richard Frost
Professor of Computer Science
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What kind of careers are available to graduates of
various Computer Science degree programs?
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What will the first year be like?
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How good are the Computer Science professors?
How good are the students?
Careers for Computer Science
Graduates
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Best and Worst jobs 2011
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/st_BESTJOBS0104_20110105.html
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Software Engineers
Computer Scientists
Games Developers
Systems Analysts
Database Administrators
Bioinformaticians
Etc.
www.bls.gov/oco/home.htm
Courses Required – First Year
http://www.uwindsor.ca/calendars
PROGRAM
Math
Key
Concepts
Algorithms
& Progr. I
Algorithms
& Prog. II
General CS
Other Required
Courses
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Honours CS
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CS & Multimedia
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CS & Networks
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CS & A.I.
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CS & Biol/
Physics/Math/etc
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Varies
CIS(CS& Bus.Ad)
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Software Engg.
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TOTAL COURSES
Up to 10 courses total for Full-Time Students + labs
The School of Computer Science
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~ 400 Undergraduate Students
~ 60 Master’s and ~30 Doctoral Students
20 Faculty (all have doctorates)
~15 Sessional Instructors
4 Admin. and 3 Technical Support Staff
50 Graduate Teaching Assistants
4 Undergraduate Labs + other facilities
10 Graduate Research Labs.
Some Facts about CS teachers
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Two Computer Science professors recently won Ontario
Teaching awards. Both had previously won the top University of
Windsor Teaching Award.
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A CS professor served as Chairman of the Canadian Society
for the Study of Computational Intelligence.
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Another CS professor is a Canada Research Chair in
Bioinformatics.
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In 2011, CS professors were awarded over $500,000 in
research grants for Cutting-Edge research
Computer Science Student
Achievements
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One of our Alumni is University Liaison Officer for Electronic
Arts (Worldwide
www.fifa08.ea.com/uk/
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Start-up companies:
Red Piston, Avatar, Govital, Thotlab,
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2011: Several on President’s Role, 12 new Outstanding
Scholars, 6 NSERC USRAs.
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Many success stories can be found at
www.cs.uwindsor.ca