0100: Project Classes
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Aristotle wrote, “What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.”
The Bren School takes this wisdom to heart by requiring students in every major to take at least three project classes.
A common theme among the different project classes is that students work relatively independently, often on a team, developing a system or tackling a problem that is much more extensive than a typical class assignment.
These systems and problems regularly involve external organizations with real problems needing real solutions.
Project courses have one or two lecture courses as prerequisites, so you enter knowing the basics of the subject matter and can concentrate on advanced and more real-world issues.
Many graduates from the Bren School say that project courses were the highlights of their time at UCI and made the critical difference in preparing them with a skill set that got them their first jobs.
The Bren School's project courses explore a wide spectrum of the computer science and information technology discipline.
Students have the opportunity to learn to specify, design, and develop computer-based systems comprised of software and/or hardware in virtually every domain of interest, including:
» biomedical
» consumer
» engineering
» entertainment
» environmental
» finance
» investment
» law
» management
» manufacturing
» pharmacologyMany of the Bren School's extensive network of affiliated companies, participate as host sites for student teams in project courses.
These school-industry partnerships often provide rich internship and career opportunities for our graduates.
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"Project classes at the Bren School taught me what it really meant to work with a team of students with diverse skills and personalities, and to stick together until a finished product is delivered." read more »
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Nhu Vuong '05
Software Engineer @ Google
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Project ICS gives students an opportunity to work on a real world project with a local company.
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