The Jonsson School is one of the most rigorous and technologically advanced programs in the country. We serve as an economic engine of growth and innovation for North Texas with our focus on industry–relevant research and education. To that end, teams from our corporate-sponsored capstone program, UTDesign®, have taken top honors at national competitions in recent years.
Since 2008, the Jonsson School has doubled in size with the creation of four new departments and nine new degree programs, including those in the areas of mechanical engineering, systems engineering, materials science and biomedical engineering. Last year, we opened the doors to the 220,000–square–foot Bioengineering and Sciences Building that houses engineers, physicists, chemists and microbiologists under one roof.
Led by faculty members with industry experience and innovative research programs, Jonsson School graduates are equipped with the knowledge and skill set to lead the next generation of fearless engineers and computer scientists.
Computer Science
The Computer Science Department seeks your support for the many programs it has created to ensure that CS and SE majors realize their full potential. The CS Department runs the CS Mentor Center to provide beginning students help with building strong foundations in computer programming and discrete mathematics. The curriculum includes CS 1200 Freshman Experience class, to help freshman develop problem-solving skills from their first day on campus. The curriculum also includes the senior-year capstone project course in which senior students develop a large software system in collaboration with a company. The CS Department has also instituted the CS2 Honors program to challenge its gifted students and produce the next generation of researchers and industry leaders. In addition, there are many programs to help all our students develop their interests outside the classroom, and become ready for a career in computing or for graduate school. These include industry internships, undergraduate research, hackathons, programming competitions, and student clubs such as the AI Society, the Computer Security Group, Women Who Compute, the Virtual Reality Society, the Linux Users’ Group, the Codeburners group, the Codewarmers group, etc.
We solicit your support for programs such as those mentioned above that will help our students become successful. We invite you to visit our website, specifically our news page, to learn about all the exciting things that are happening in the CS department.
Center for CS Education & Outreach
The Center for Computer Science Education and Outreach was created in 2014 and now runs over 200 summer coding camps, reaching more than 2,000 students each summer. We also run over 100 after school coding clubs in schools in the Dallas area during the school year. The CCSEO employs many UT Dallas CS students as instructors and conducts professional-level courses for these and other students.
We provide outreach and teaching to the local community at affordable prices. A typical one-week summer camp costs $300, and ten afterschool coding clubs costs $80. This covers compensation and transportation for student instructors. Many of our afterschool camps are held in low-income areas, where families cannot afford the fees. These kids risk never being introduced to coding!
Your support is needed to provide coding education in low-income areas and expand our programming across the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Without financial support from community members like you, it will be impossible to expand our program to students who may not get another opportunity to learn coding!
Student Organizations
Our student organizations help likeminded students connect, collaborate, organize, socialize and gain leadership experience. NSBE, SHPE, SWE and Women Who Compute provide programming and outreach to a diverse student population. Others, the UT Dallas BattleBot team and the IEEE student chapter, have garnered national awards. ASME competes in the Shell Eco Marathon where they won 3rd place with their self-built fuel-efficient, lightweight car. The ACM team runs HackUTD, the largest university Hackathon in North Texas.
Your gift to student organizations provide operating support for these groups, allowing them to host industry events with professional speakers, reach out to the community in volunteerism, or compete at a top level with their technical skills.
UTDesign
The UTDesign Capstone program pairs the skills, energy and enthusiasm of teams of talented engineering and computer science students with technical projects supported by industry sponsors. UTDesign gives companies an opportunity to enlist teams of students on industry projects that serve as the capstone of students' undergraduate experience. Whether it involves application development, product design or hardware integration, our students are prepared to address business needs in the field.
UTDesign EPICS is a service learning design program where undergraduate students work on multidisciplinary teams to solve real world problems while leaving a lasting impact on the community. UTDesign EPICS engages students in human-centered design in a service-learning framework as non-profit organizations partner with a team of engineering and computer science students to solve a problem that will greatly benefit the community.
Your gift supports these UTDesign Capstone and EPICS projects by providing infrastructure, space, hardware, software, and materials.
