Orientation

Joey Wilson (UCSF)Lukasz Bugaj (UCB)

Bioengineering Association of Students (BEAST) Co-Presidents August 2011

Overview

Overall Requirements Courses Rotations Selecting a lab Qualifying Exam Teaching

What do I need to do right now?

Courses

Area Requirements

Major and Minor

First Year Seminars

Courses: Area Requirements

Designed for breadth Undergraduate & Graduate courses count! Major/Minor courses may count

Designed for depth

Major: 16S/ 24Q

Minor: 8S / 12Q Certificates Master’s Degree You decide!

Courses: Major / Minor

Courses: First Year

First Year Seminars BioE 200 (UCB) BioE 281 (UCSF) Anti. Med School

BioE 301 (UCB) Teaching Fellowships Ethics

Courses: Resources

BEAST Wiki (https://ucbeast.berkeley.edu) Major/Minor Courses Course evaluations

UCSF Course Catalogue (http://student.ucsf.edu/gencat/courselisting.html)

UCB Course Schedule (http://schedule.berkeley.edu)

Academic advisor and rotation professors

Peer advisors

Rotations: Basics

Number required: 3 Length: 10 weeks Follow UCSF quarters

1st: 9/22/11–12/9/11 2nd: 1/9/12 – 3/23/12 3rd: 4/2/12 – 6/15/12

Rotations: Philosophy

“Academic Dating” Advisor style Lab environment Interesting research? Is there a FUNDED spot

available for me?

Opportunity for 3 diverse labs/fields

Rotations: How to Choose

Email, talk to PI Talk with Rebecca and SJT Talk to current students Attend lab meetings Attend research talks

BioE Seminars BioE Retreat

Rotations: Step-By-Step

1. Choose rotation lab.2. Complete rotation

agreement form.3. Get rotation credit. UCB: BioE 298/299 UCSF: BioE 2504. Rotate! (NEVER REPEAT

ROTATIONS!)

5. Submit rotation eval. form to RP or SJT.

Selecting a Lab

Relationship with PI

Available projects

Engineering vs. Basic Science vs. Clinical Science

Available funding (It’s not rude to ask!)

Lab culture

Goals, timeline, location, etc.

Qualifying Exam

Milestone event Proposal & defense of

6-12 months of proposed research Oral presentation Written proposal By Fall 3rd Year

4 Committee Members BEAST Presentation

Qualifying Exam: Beyond

Research

Dissertation Manuscript of PhD

Exit Seminar Last requirement!

Teaching

GSI = Graduate Student Instructor or Teaching Assistant

Must GSI ≥1 class. Usually 2nd/3rd year You choose class

with Rebecca and SJT

Communication skills booster

Beyond the Requirements: After the PhD

PhD

Academia: -Research -Teaching Industry:

-Startup-Corporate

Gov’tPublic Policy

Consulting

Non-Profit

Overview

Overall Requirements Courses Rotations Selecting a lab Qualifying Exam Teaching

What do I need to do right now?

What do I need to do now?

Get IDs, bus passes

Register for classes

Plan rotations

Residency

Register for Retreat

Fellowships

Now: ID Cards

UCB: Cal1 Card office on Lower Sproul Plaza Valid gov’t issued ID Student ID #

AC Transit Bus Pass: register for classes

UCSF: should have it!

Now: Course Registration

UC Berkeley telebears.berkeley.edu Fall and spring semesters

UCSF saa.ucsf.edu/studentportal Fall, winter, spring quarters

Now: Course Registration

UCB “home campus”:≥12 units @ UCB every semester File study list at UCSF only when

taking courses there

UCSF “home campus”:≥1 units @ UCB every semester File a UCSF study list w/ ≥8 units

every quarter

Now: Course Advice

2 = good, 3 = pushing it.

Most important “class” = rotation

Info & advice from BEAST Wiki, Peer Advisors, UCB Course Schedule, UCSF Course Schedule

BEAST Office Hours

Crossing the Bay – Remember: 1-way cross-bay commute > 1 hr

Now: Fellowships

Apply for outside funding!

Now: Fellowships

Part of BioE 301

Ask BioEs with fellowships for tips/help.

Workshops re: NSF applications at UCB each fall

Graduate Division Fellowships Officehttp://www.grad.berkeley.edu/financial/fellowships_office.shtml

Terry Johnsonhttps://sites.google.com/site/tdjberkeley/advice/fellowships

David Breslauer http://biopoets.berkeley.edu/davidb/money.php

Now: Residency

Must become CA resident!

NRT $15k more than CA tuition

“Established continuous presence in CA” ≥1 year before Fall 2012

Objective evidence that CA is permanent home

Now: Residency

File Statement of Legal Residence (SLR) now UCB: bearfacts.berkeley.edu -> “SLR” UCSF: http://registrar.ucsf.edu/new-students/registration

Collect Documents

Now: Residency

Documents confirming arrival in CA before Fall 2011 (airline tickets, gas receipts, etc.)

CA driver’s license / CA ID card, CA vehicle registration, CA voter registration card

CA bank statements, CA rental agreement

Prior year tax forms (state / federal)

Documents confirming summer whereabouts

Submission deadlines: UCB: 8/22/2012, UCSF: June 2012

Now: Register for Retreat

Granlibakken Conference Center

Meet students, profs, and alums

Discover goings-on

Find future rotations

Have some fun in Tahoe

Register now! http://bioeng.berkeley.edu/graduate/retreat11.html

Now: Attend Research Forums

Departmental Seminar

BERFs & Exit Seminars

Seminars at both campuses

Seminars in other Departments

Now: Talk to Advisors

Graduate/Academic advisor

Head Graduate advisors

Your Peer advisor

Head Peer advisors

Research advisor (PI)

Rebecca Pauling

SarahJane Taylor

Program Administrators

UCB

UCSF

BEAST Presidents Head Peer Advisors

Win Pin Ng

Now: Get Questions Answered

Joey Wilson

Lukasz Bugaj

Rebekah McLaughlin

Questions?

Peer Advisors

Faculty/Grad. Advisors

Program Administrators

BioE Grad. Student Handbook

BEAST Wiki: https://ucbeast.berkeley.edu

Ask around. (We are friendly!)