Category: Undergraduates

Industry Internships Bring Big Benefits to Graduate and Undergraduate Students in Computer Science and Software Engineering With the UT Dallas campus located in the center of the Dallas area’s high-tech hub, it is hard not to notice how the campus is surrounded by hundreds of software, hardware, and telecom companies. Not only do these companies […]

Student Internship Success Series: Ashley Handoko’s USAA Internship Ashley Handoko is a recent 2018 graduate from the UT Dallas Computer Science Department’s Undergraduate Program with many accomplishments under her belt. The summer before Ashley started her freshmen year as a CS student at UT Dallas, she was invited to attend Dr. Janell Straach’s Connect-Inspire-Guide Camp for Incoming […]

CS Computing Scholar Honor Student, Esther Goldstein, Speaks at the Jonsson School’s Spring 2018 Commencement Ceremony The University of Texas at Dallas’ graduated its largest class of graduates last May. The cohort included 2,393 bachelor’s students, 2,090 master’s students, and 107 doctoral candidates. Nearly 1,080 students graduated from the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science. This included […]

CS & SE Seniors Showcase Their Innovative Ideas, Skills, and Solutions at the Spring’18 UTDesign CS Expo Every semester, UT Dallas Computer Science and Software Engineering seniors come together one final time before graduation to present their final capstone project at the biannual UTDesign Computer Science Expo. This past May, forty-three teams ranging from three to five members each, presented […]

Students’ Entrepreneurial Venture Receives Support from the UT Dallas CS Department The UT Dallas Computer Science Department recently instituted the Software Startup Launch Track to motivate computer science and software engineering students to become entrepreneurs. Under this program, student engagement with entrepreneurship starts from the freshman or sophomore year itself, and culminates in a startup housed […]

As Beta Launch Nears, UT Dallas CS Entrepreneur Has Nothing To Lose But Time Via Dallas Innovates | Jeanne Spreier – UT Dallas student James Griffin is applying the skills he’s learned at Blackstone LaunchPad for his startup RamifAI, a degree-planning software startup that uses artificial intelligence. For UT Dallas senior James Griffin, the route to startup success […]

UT Dallas Team Wins Grand Prize at Texas A&M Hackathon Via UT Dallas Mercury | Noumika Balaji – A UTD team was declared the grand prize winner at TAMUHack 2018, the Texas A&M annual hackathon, for developing an app utilizing social media for first responders. The team also won the “Best Hack for Social Good,” sponsored by […]

31 Senior CS/SE Teams Present Their Industry Sponsored Projects at the UTDesign CS Fall’17 Expo Every semester, UT Dallas Computer Science (CS) and Software Engineering (SE) seniors come together one final time before graduation to present their final capstone project at the biannual UTDesign Computer Science Expo. Last December, thirty-one teams ranging from three to five […]

Blockchain and Cryptographic Systems Student Club Helps Members Find Jobs in New Industry Via UT Dallas Mercury | Cindy Folefack – Bitcoin gained international attention in early December when it experienced a meteoric rise in value, quickly followed by a nearly 50 percent drop. While one UT Dallas professor has written the currency off as a […]

UT Dallas Becomes 1 of 9 Schools Recognized Internationally for CS Team’s Invention to Detect Car Crashes Via UT Dallas Mercury | Ayoung Jo –  A team of computer science students were recognized in an international competition after developing a device detecting car crashes and alerts emergency services automatically. The achievement makes UT Dallas one […]