Category: Prospective Students

CS Department Institutes the Research Excellence Scholarship Program for top 1st year PhD students This year the UT Dallas Computer Science Department established the Research Excellence Scholarship for 1st year Computer Science and Software Engineering PhD students. The PhD Admissions Committee selected five students from the fall 2015 incoming applicant pool to the PhD program […]

CS Department Organizes a Bevy of Activities to Welcome Students to the New School Year This August marked the beginning of a new 2015 academic year for UT Dallas and the Computer Department. The UT Dallas Computer Science department welcomed 2,876 students, including 466 computer science/software engineering freshmen, with activities and events as a way […]

Samsung donates $28K of Virtual Reality Equipment to UT Dallas for VR course This semester Samsung Electronics America, a global leader in technology, donated 30 Samsung Gear VR (virtual reality) Innovator Edition head-mounted displays (HMDs) along with 30 Samsung Galaxy S6 smartphones to the UT Dallas Virtual Reality course instructed by Dr. Ryan McMahan. The donations would not have been […]

Undergrad Research Matching Event gets Students Ready for UG Research Course UT Dallas’s Computer Science Department brought together its distinguished Computer Science/Software Engineering faculty and invited ambitious undergraduate students with high GPA’s to participate in the Undergraduate Research Matching Event as a prelude to the Undergraduate Research in Computer Science course. Dr.’s Linda Morales and Janell Straach, both UT Dallas CS professors and the […]

UT Dallas CS Dept. Gets Involved With The Open Source Community An Independent Studies course on cloud computing and networking (using OpenStack) was offered at the University of Texas at Dallas Computer Science Department in conjunction with Award Solutions, a company that provides training and consulting to employees of large companies. The instructor of the […]

Discrete Math Mentor Center Celebrates its Three-Year Anniversary The Discrete Math Mentor Center (DMMC)/Computer Science Mentor Center (CSMC) celebrated its three-year anniversary in the spring of 2015. The DMMC welcomes students of Computer Science and Software Engineering who are studying Discrete Mathematics to augment and integrate their classroom learning. A solid understanding of Discrete Mathematics is […]

Second Class of Students Graduates from Executive Master’s Program in Software Engineering On May 16th of 2015, the University of Texas at Dallas’ Computer Science Department graduated the second class of the Executive Master of Science in Software Engineering (EMSE) program.  Twelve students graduated after twenty months of coursework earning an executive master’s degree in […]

UTDesign CS Spring 2015 Expo Celebrate Senior Capstone Projects Computer Science seniors in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science gathered on May 8th to present their capstone projects at the UTDesign Computer Science Expo. In Spring 2015, twenty-two teams ranging from three to five members each participated in the Expo. All students […]

Dr. Lily Wu Inspires Students at the Second Grace Series Lecture On May 4th 2015, the UT Dallas Computer Science Department’s Grace Series Lectures continued with Dr. Lily Wu as the featured speaker. The objective of the Grace Series is to present a program of lectures about the role of women in today’s technology fields […]

CyberCorps®: Scholarship for Service Program Trains Future Cybersecurity Workforce Threats to the nation’s information technology infrastructure are real. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has partnered with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create the CyberCorps®: Scholarship for Service (SFS) program to support educational efforts in cybersecurity to produce the workforce that will defend against […]