COMP 4900 Academic and Professional Development (Fall 2015)

Coordinator: Dr. Cindy Li
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Course Learning Outcomes

This course is for academic and professional development of students in the programs offered by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Activities may include seminars, workshops, advising and sharing sessions, interaction with faculty and teaching staff, and discussion with student peers or alumni. Graded P/PP/F. It is a required course for both COMP and COSC curriculum.

• Develop relationships with faculty members and staff;
• Examine the value of and assume ownership of his/her education;
• Become self-directed in planning and accomplishing short and long-term academic goal;
• Identify short and long-term career and personal plans and aspirations and work towards these by establishing realistic development plans.

Course Requirements

Each student is assigned to a faculty academic advisor, and followed up by a department academic counselor. In order to "pass" the course, you are required to meet with your faculty advisor and attend seminars during your undergraduate study.

• First term in CSE (e.g. Year 2 Fall for DSE): Your respective faculty academic advisor will initiate a welcome meeting in a context of social gathering. Meeting will be arranged in Sep or Oct depending on the schedule of your faculty academic advisor. You are also required to attend the department UG orientation and one seminar.
• All in-between terms in CSE (e.g. Year 2 Spring to Year 4 Fall for DSE): Attend two seminars each term.
• Last term in CSE (e.g. Year 4 Spring for DSE): Your faculty academic advisor will invite you to a wrap-up meeting in Apr or May.

Of course, you're welcomed to request meeting with your faculty academic advisor or department academic counselor whenever you feel necessary.

Note attendance of a seminar is valid when you

• Arrive the seminar venue before 6:10pm and take attendance with the TA who's in charge, and
• Submit a reflection report for that seminar in time and get a Pass grade.

You may download the reflection report template.

For students with unsatisfactory academic progress (UAP), you're required to have individual meeting with your academic advisor and/or departmental academic advising staff every term.

You are registered to COMP 4900 during your whole stay in CSE. Its grade for each term is PP (Permitted to Proceed). The P (Pass) grade will be given at the final term before you graduate.

Failure of fulfilling the above requirement in any term may lead to an 'F' grade in COMP 4900 for that term, and be permanently recorded in your transcript. Please be reminded that it is a required course and an 'F' grade will affect your graduation according to university policy.

COMP 4900 Fall 2015
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T   Advisor             Class Alias
*   *******             ***********
01  Brahim Benasou      comp4900t01
02  Qiong Luo           comp4900t02
03  Shing-Chi Cheung    comp4900t03
04  Chi-Keung Tang      comp4900t04
05  Long Quan           comp4900t05
06  Cunsheng Ding       comp4900t06
07  Lei Chen            comp4900t07
08  James Kwok          comp4900t08
09  Pedro Sander        comp4900t09
10  Papadias Dimitrios  comp4900t10
11  Sunil Arya          comp4900t11
12  Dit-Yan Yeung       comp4900t12
13  Kai Chen            comp4900t13
14  Gary Chan           comp4900t14
15  Cindy Li            comp4900t15
16  Nevin Zhang         comp4900t16
17  Dekai Wu            comp4900t17
18  Dik Lee             comp4900t18
19  Andrew Horner       comp4900t19
20  Huamin Qu           comp4900t20
21  Pan Hui             comp4900t21
22  Qian Zhang          comp4900t22
23  Ke Yi               comp4900t23
24  Fangzhen Lin        comp4900t24
25  Chiew-Lan Tai       comp4900t25
26  Brian Mak           comp4900t26
27  Jogesh Muppala      comp4900t27
28  Sung Kim            comp4900t28
29  Wilfred Ng          comp4900t29
30  Albert Chung        comp4900t30
31  Cecia Chan          comp4900t31

List of Seminars

You can attend any of the seminars offered below to fulfill your COMP 4900 seminar requirement. All seminars are arranged in Wednesdays, 6-7pm.

ENGG 2010 Engineering Seminar Series

Seminars offered by ENGG2010 can be double-counted to fulfill COMP 4900 seminar requirement. You may log in LMES or check projection screens in Engineering Commons about seminar schedule.

CSE Information Seminars

To facilitate your study, the department offers information seminars, including UG orientation (compulsory for Year 2 students), Final Year Project (FYP), job hunting, internship and exchange, IT job markets, CV writing training, etc. List of CSE information seminars Fall 2015-16:

CSE Talk Series to General CSE UG students

Interesting general talks by our CSE professors, alumni, or students to share their research, profession or experience with fellow students. List of CSE UG talks 2015-16:

Cindy Li is the COMP 4900 coordinator for Fall 2015.

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