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Orientation
Joey Wilson (UCSF)
Lukasz Bugaj (UCB)
Bioengineering Association of Students (BEAST) Co-Presidents
August 2011
Overview
Overall Requirements
Courses
Rotations
Selecting a lab
Qualifying Exam
Teaching
What do I need to do
right now?
Courses
Area Requirements
Major and Minor
First Year Seminars
Courses: Area Requirements
Designed for breadth
Undergraduate & Graduate courses count!
Major/Minor courses may count
Courses: Major / Minor
Designed for depth
Major: 16S/ 24Q
Minor: 8S / 12Q
Certificates
Master’s Degree
You decide!
Courses: First Year
First Year Seminars
BioE 200 (UCB)
BioE 281 (UCSF)
Anti. Med School
BioE 301 (UCB)
Teaching
Fellowships
Ethics
Courses: Resources
BEAST Wiki (https://ucbeast.berkeley.edu)
Major/Minor Courses
Course evaluations
UCSF Course Catalogue
(http://student.ucsf.edu/gencat/courselisting.html)
UCB Course Schedule (http://schedule.berkeley.edu)
Academic advisor and rotation professors
Peer advisors
Rotations: Basics
Number required: 3
Length: 10 weeks
Follow UCSF quarters
1st: 9/22/11–12/9/11
2nd: 1/9/12 – 3/23/12
3rd: 4/2/12 – 6/15/12
Rotations: Philosophy
“Academic Dating”
Advisor style
Lab environment
Interesting research?
Is there a FUNDED spot
available for me?
Opportunity for 3 diverse
labs/fields
Rotations: How to Choose
Email, talk to PI
Talk with Rebecca and SJT
Talk to current students
Attend lab meetings
Attend research talks
BioE Seminars
BioE Retreat
Rotations: Step-By-Step
1.
2.
3.
4.
Choose rotation lab.
Complete rotation
agreement form.
Get rotation credit.
UCB: BioE 298/299
UCSF: BioE 250
Rotate! (NEVER REPEAT
ROTATIONS!)
5.
Submit rotation eval.
form to RP or SJT.
Selecting a Lab
Relationship with PI
Available projects
Engineering vs. Basic Science
vs. Clinical Science
Available funding
(It’s not rude to ask!)
Lab culture
Goals, timeline, location, etc.
Qualifying Exam
Milestone event
Proposal & defense of
6-12 months of
proposed research
Oral presentation
Written proposal
By Fall 3rd Year
4 Committee Members
BEAST Presentation
Qualifying Exam: Beyond
Research
Dissertation
Manuscript of PhD
Exit Seminar
Last requirement!
Teaching
GSI = Graduate
Student Instructor or
Teaching Assistant
Must GSI ≥1 class.
Usually 2nd/3rd year
You choose class
with Rebecca and
SJT
Communication skills
booster
Beyond the Requirements: After the PhD
Academia:
-Research
-Teaching
NonProfit
Industry:
-Startup
-Corporate
PhD
Consulting
Public
Policy
Gov’t
Overview
Overall Requirements
Courses
Rotations
Selecting a lab
Qualifying Exam
Teaching
What do I need to do
right now?
What do I need to do now?
Get IDs, bus passes
Register for classes
Plan rotations
Residency
Register for Retreat
Fellowships
Now: ID Cards
UCB: Cal1 Card office on
Lower Sproul Plaza
Valid gov’t issued ID
Student ID #
AC Transit Bus Pass:
register for classes
UCSF: should have it!
Now: Course Registration
UC Berkeley
telebears.berkeley.edu
Fall and spring semesters
UCSF
saa.ucsf.edu/studentportal
Fall, winter, spring quarters
Now: Course Registration
UCB “home campus”:
≥12 units @ UCB every semester
File study list at UCSF only when
taking courses there
UCSF “home campus”:
≥1 units @ UCB every semester
File a UCSF study list w/ ≥8 units
every quarter
Now: Course Advice
2 = good, 3 = pushing it.
Most important “class” = rotation
Info & advice from BEAST Wiki, Peer Advisors, UCB
Course Schedule, UCSF Course Schedule
BEAST Office Hours
Crossing the Bay – Remember: 1-way cross-bay
commute > 1 hr
Now: Fellowships
Apply for outside funding!
Now: Fellowships
Part of BioE 301
Ask BioEs with fellowships for tips/help.
Workshops re: NSF applications at UCB each fall
Graduate Division Fellowships Office
http://www.grad.berkeley.edu/financial/fellowships_office.shtml
Terry Johnson
https://sites.google.com/site/tdjberkeley/advice/fellowships
David Breslauer
http://biopoets.berkeley.edu/davidb/money.php
Now: Residency
Must become CA resident!
NRT $15k more than CA tuition
“Established continuous presence in CA” ≥1
year before Fall 2012
Objective evidence that CA is permanent home
Now: Residency
File Statement of Legal Residence (SLR) now
UCB: bearfacts.berkeley.edu -> “SLR”
UCSF: http://registrar.ucsf.edu/new-students/registration
Collect Documents
Now: Residency
Documents confirming arrival in CA before Fall 2011
(airline tickets, gas receipts, etc.)
CA driver’s license / CA ID card, CA vehicle
registration, CA voter registration card
CA bank statements, CA rental agreement
Prior year tax forms (state / federal)
Documents confirming summer whereabouts
Submission deadlines:
UCB: 8/22/2012, UCSF: June 2012
Now: Register for Retreat
Granlibakken Conference Center
Meet students, profs, and alums
Discover goings-on
Find future rotations
Have some fun in Tahoe
Register now!
http://bioeng.berkeley.edu/graduate/retreat11.html
Now: Attend Research Forums
Departmental Seminar
BERFs & Exit Seminars
Seminars at both
campuses
Seminars in other
Departments
Now: Talk to Advisors
Graduate/Academic
advisor
Head Graduate
advisors
Your Peer advisor
Head Peer advisors
Research advisor (PI)
Now: Get Questions Answered
Program Administrators
BEAST Presidents
Head Peer Advisors
UCSF
SarahJane Taylor
Joey Wilson
Rebekah McLaughlin
UCB
Rebecca Pauling
Lukasz Bugaj
Win Pin Ng
Questions?
Peer Advisors
Faculty/Grad. Advisors
Program Administrators
BioE Grad. Student Handbook
BEAST Wiki: https://ucbeast.berkeley.edu
Ask around. (We are friendly!)