<p>if you have a genuine interest in research, do you know what field of research you’d like to get into? then you can browse around to see which professors are currently in that field and ask them directly if they have any openings or you can even propose ideas (that’s what i did for one of my courses).</p>
<p>you also get invited to enroll in research courses if you meet a certain GPA where you conduct research and also build presentations and share your findings with the rest of the class/some faculty. </p>
<p>or you can apply to certain research programs (such as CENS).</p>
<p>i’d give you more resources/links but i’m at work right now. i’ll update later. and i’ve also never actually done research, so if anyone has first hand experience, that’d be even better.</p>
<p>what type of research are you interested in? what major?</p>
<p>Thanks for the helpful response MadeInChina.</p>
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<p>How do you do this?</p>
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<p>I am considering applying to CENS. I have emailed the director for more info.</p>
<p>I’m an incoming sophomore in EE and I’m interested in a lot of the research groups mentioned on the EE website. In particular:</p>
<p>Semiconductor/quantum devices/CMOS related
Microsystems Research
Microwave electronics
Tetrahertz devices lab
Vision Lab
NeuroEngineering (especially MEMS)</p>
<p>I could probably narrow it down to one or two in the long run. I’ve visited and read almost all the research pages, and very few mention anything about undergrad research… but I’m sure the opportunity is there.</p>
<p>i know a handful of undergrads who are as interested in research as you are (and that’s the first step - being interested). it’s not too difficult if you know what general direction you want to get into.</p>
<p>the course i was referring to is CS194, which is lead by deborah estrin (and i’m sure you know who that is ;)) i was thinking about enrolling this quarter but decided i’m not really passionate about research. i’ll give you more info later…check your pm box tomorrow.</p>
You’ll have to practice. Reading the text only tells you the concepts, but you don’t know what cases to use them correctly, and if you don’t read the text continuously, then you will forget when school starts. The more and more you read, the more and more you don’t understand, and the more and more you get sleepy and forget it all.
<p>CS194 seems pretty cool, I wonder if there is something more EE related like that? I’m mostly concerned that being a sophomore with only a couple of EE classes behind me will not make me a very appealing applicant.</p>
<p>so, anyone know the process of switching from college of letter’s and science to engineering…this is for someone who is transferring into ucla as a junior, but wants to change to civil engineering…btw, current major is econ, or math/econ</p>
<p>EE101 should be easy to medium in difficulty… Ozcan is fairly straightforward on his midterms/finals. Or at least he was for EE1. The class will be harder for you if you haven’t been in touch with electromagnetics (capacitance, resistance, coulomb’s, gauss, faraday, etc.) for a while. Ozcan goes fast!</p>
<p>Pan was a joke in terms of grades. He taught the EE 2 okay, but not as bad as EE 100. In EE 100, only 25 of about 175 came to class. Pan likes to focus on what is important, not follow the text, which can be a good and bad thing. Everyone was only concerned about grades, so hardly anyone attended. He was very lenient with grades though in EE 100. I think people who had a 60% still got at least a B+ (his median).</p>
<p>50% of EE2 received an A. i heard from a lot of past students that EE2 was conceptually difficult…but that class was such a joke when Pan taught it.</p>
<p>his exam was 90% questions from past homeworks. and the exams were open-note…</p>
<p>Hello,
So I was checking the textbooks I need for CS31 with Smallberg and what came up was “Absolute C++ 3rd Edition by Savitch”
However, months ago, before I even knew about it, I bought this same book, except it’s the 2nd edition. But I don’t have that Codemate access etc. So do I need to get the newest edition or can I just use what I have right now?
PS: I also have Big C++</p>
<p>People have said that Smallberg lets you use whatever C++ book you want for CS 31, since he doesn’t assign things from the book and doesn’t use the extra features. You should be fine with a second edition of Absolute C++.</p>
<p>Another related question:
The format I have for “Absolute C++ 2nd Ed.” is e-book PDF.
Would printing it out sound like a waste of time, paper, and toner?</p>