Spring 2005

COMP001/COMP002/COMP003
Academic and Professional Development

Coordinator: Prof. Helen Shen
Email:
Tel: 2358 6987
Office: Rm 3557

Course Objectives

  • To improve the communication skills of the students via small group interaction among a faculty advisor and students from across three years;
  • To allow students to get to know at least one faculty member in the department sufficiently well so that academic, and career advice can be sought readily;
  • To prepare students to take up internship, and placement positions;
  • To help students to understand the working environment via seminars given by industrialists, and experience sharing from alumni.

Course Requirements

In order to "pass" the course, you are required to

  1. attend the seminar this Wed. (Feb. 2) at 5:00 pm in LTA (Lecture Theatre A) (if you cannot make it this time, please inform Brenda at ); and
  2. attend at least 3 more seminars during the semester (in addition to the one on Feb 2). Please note that different seminars are targeted at different year students. However, you are welcome to attend any that interest you; and
  3. meet with your respective advisor at least once during the semester, according to the following schedule (faculty advisors may modify the schedule and the meeting format for their sections as they see fit).

    Date and Time Topic Target Participant
    23 Feb 2005, Wed, (17:00-18:00) Meeting with Advisor T01-T12
    16 Mar 2005, Wed, (17:00-18:00) Meeting with Advisor T13-T23 

    T       Advisor                 Venue
*       *******                 *****
01      Sunil Arya              5509
02      Qiang Yang              5508
03      Shing-Chi Cheung        5559
04      Vincent Shen            5560
05      Helen Shen              5561
06      Andrew Horner           5562
07      Fangzhen Lin            5563
08      James Kwok              5564
09      Wilfred Ng              5565
10      Bo Li                   5486
11      Long Quan               5505
13      Albert Chung            5509
14     *Mordecai Golin          5508
15      Derick Wood             5559
16      Cunsheng Ding           5560
17      Chiew Lan Tai           5561
18      Fred Lochovsky          5562
19     *Dimitris Papadia        5563
20      Dik Lee                 5564
21      Nevin Zhang             5565
22      Lionel Ni               5486
23      Siu-Wing Cheng          5505

Schedule

Attendance will be taken at the seminars.

Date and Time Venue Topic Target Participant
02 Feb 2005, Wed, (17:00-18:00) LTA Workshop: Resume Writing & Interview skill (Part I), by Mr. Antonio Yu, Senior Consultant, Recourses Explorer Year 1 to Year 3 students
16 Feb 2005, Wed, (17:00-18:00) LTA Workshop: Resume Writing & Interview skill (Part II), by Mr. Antonio Yu, Senior Consultant, Recourses Explorer Year 1 to Year 3 students
23 Feb 2005, Wed, (17:00-18:00) Meeting with Advisor T01-T12
16 Mar 2005, Wed, (17:00-18:00) Meeting with Advisor T13-T23
09 Mar 2005, Wed, (17:00-18:00) LTC Sharing Session: Summer Internship & Placement Programme, by interns and placement students 2004-2005 Year 2 to Year 3 students
23 Mar 2005, Wed, (17:00-18:00) LTA *Is Ethics important for IT professionals? by Dr. Albert Erisman Year 1 to Year 3 students
30 Mar 2005, Wed, (17:00-18:00) LTC Career Talk by Credit Sussie First Boston (CSFB): Company Introduction, IT Support in the Investment Banking System, and potential opportunity at CSFB. Year 2 to Year 3 students
06 Apr 2005, Wed, (17:00-18:00) LTC Career Talk by DBS Bank: Company Introduction, IT Support in the Banking system, potential opportunity at DBS Year 2 to Year 3 students
13 Apr 2005, Wed, (17:00-18:00) 3401 SAO Confidence Building Workshop for Year 3 students Year 3 students only
27 Apr 2005, Wed, (17:00-18:00) LTC FYP Information Session, by Prof. Dekai Wu, CS FYP Coordinator Year 2 students (including CPEG)

* Revised on 21 Mar 2005.

Seminar Materials

COMP00x Archive