Check out the link about How to be a Good Graduate Student

Also So long, and Thanks for the PhD!

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Simple truth ..

Several of us faculty species have been bombarded with resumes from CS students. Here are some answers to your questions:

Yes, we are working on serveral funded projects.
No, we are not looking to hire anybody cold.

We don't have the time or resources to deal with all the resumes and therefore, we will not respond to GRA requests.

Yes, there are opportunities for people who share our research interests to work with us.

If you believe you share our research interests, take our classes and do a great job to impress us.

If you don't have time to take a course that you are supposedly interested and capable of doing a good job (and want to be hired as a GRA to do the research work), how would it be possilbe for you to spend time working on the projects??

That also explains why faculty prefer to give GRA positions to students who they have worked with in the past, so that they know their capability, maturity, trustworthiness, and skill sets.

Now what? Check out Oscar for interesting courses to take!

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Thank you for your interest in working with us.

We are always interested in finding exceptional students to work with. However, as positions come available we are most likely to hire students who we have gotten to know through courses or other research. This allows us to understand if there is a fit between their interests and skills and our work.

If your time and interests allow you might consider taking either or both of the following courses:

Fall 2008

COA 8823 -DZ CRN 86392, HSI 8803 CRN 83637, and CS 8803 ERF CRN 88002 - Emergency Room of the Future

COA 8843 ED CRN 86538, alsoCS 8803 DG CRN 88003 - Design Games


Spring 2008

22871 - Advanced Reading in Architecture, Culture and Behavior (CoA 223, W 2:00 - 4:30 pm)

27358 - Clients and Users: Redesigning Healthcare in the wake of Katrina (CoA 259, TR 4:30 - 6 pm)

24077/27384 - Creatvity and Design Cognition (NROTC 115, R 6 - 9 pm)

27974/27975 - Wellness, Emotion, Sex and Technology (Klaus 2456, 6-9 pm)

Fall 2007

88169/90200 - Children's Hospital of the Future

88458/90201 - Design Computing and Everyware
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