Organizations & Involvement

BMES

Organization for Biomedical Engineering Students, http://www.bmes.org/

UCI Nano Society

The MAE and EECS graduate students have recently initiated a new MEMS/NEMS student society at UCI, the "UCI Nano Society", in order to promote interaction and collaboration within the MEMS community at UCI, and also the MEMS industry. The group is registered as a UCI student club,  website: http://nanosociety.eng.uci.edu . The organization holds weekly meetings on every Wednesday, and has a speaker from one of the MEMS labs at UCI, or from industry. Check out the website and see if you are interested! It is open to all students.

HSSoE Graduate Student Council/Advisory Board

The graduate students at The Henry Samueli School of Engineering have never had an official graduate student council. The Graduate Student Affairs Staff is desirous of assisting you, the graduate students, in forming this organization, commencing in Fall '04. This council will serve as a means of communication among the various majors and departments, will advise the Associate Dean, John LaRue, of any curriculum or programmatic issues or questions brought forth from the student body. It is forecasted that this group will assist the Graduate Student Affairs Office with student recruitment, outreach, career days and corporate recruitment events, have a presence in the school's annual E-Week, and serve as contacts for prospective students. It is also anticipated that these student leaders will help in planning orientation, poster sessions, and serve as ambassadors for the school. As well as the aforementioned items, this group will select continuing student "mentors" for the new students to become more engaged in the school, helping to guide them along the way toward degree completion.

Please notify Tom Cahoon at tcahoon@uci.edu or Christy King at clking@uci.edu if you are interested in the graduate council.

HSSoE Graduate Student Sport and Social Club

Graduate school cannot be all work and no play! There is currently no organization to address the extracurricular needs of our graduate students. It is important to keep a balance in your life and dedicate some time to all things outside the lab and classroom. Therefore, the Graduate Student Affairs Office is proposing to help you, the graduate students, in forming a "sport and social club" (name can be finalized later).

All registered and recognized student organizations are entitled to funding from the Dean of Students office, as long as they are open to all students. Therefore, if you register your club, you will be able to receive university funding for social events, speaker series, and other activities. We envision this as yet another way for the graduate students to network and get to know one another. With so many majors and students scattered throughout 5 departments and 3 programs, it is a challenge to meet and get to know others. You might benefit greatly from meeting other HSSoE graduate students in other departments, sparking an interest in other avenues of research, or simply meeting a new friend or activity partner.

Look for more information at the beginning of the Fall Quarter!

Student Mentors Needed For New Graduate Students

The Graduate Student Affairs Office is asking for continuing students to serve as "mentors" to our new graduate students. This incoming cohort proves to be much larger than last year, so we are asking for your help! As a mentor, you will help guide a new student or students throughout his or her first year of graduate study. Can you remember your first year of graduate school? Wouldn't it have been helpful to have an upper-class guide or mentor to help you navigate your way? In my graduate school experience, the most helpful people were the continuing students who completed the courses before my arrival and had taken their preliminary exams and/or completed their theses. I was able to ask these students what it really was like to be a student in my program because they had lived through the experience and survived!

As a "mentor", you would be able to answer questions about courses, professors, and the process of completing various "landmarks", such as advancement to candidacy, preliminary examinations, or conducting research, or working on a thesis or dissertation. If you serve as a TA or Research Assistant, you can also share those experiences with our new students. Taking your mentee to lunch or dinner maybe once a quarter is advised, or just being available by phone or email to answer questions would be helpful.

Please notify Tom Cahoon at tcahoon@uci.edu or Christy King at clking@uci.edu if you are interested becoming a mentor.