Career Pathways

Career Pathways was a program launched last year to help encourage students to try out an area or technology in Computer Science not fully covered by classes here at UCR.

We are aiming to host 3-4 different workshops throughout the year.

Career Pathways: Fall

Weekly Web Development Workshops

Every Thursday from 2pm - 4pm
at WCH 135

starting Oct. 8th (week 2)

Over 8 weeks students will:

• Rebuild Pinterest from the ground up
• Learn web languages like Ruby on Rails
• Learn the fundamentals of both front end and back end web development
• Learn how to deploy their website

Career Pathways: Winter

Weekly Game Development Workshops (Taught as an R'Course, 1 Unit)

10 Weeks of high level game design in Unreal Engine 4 going over:

• Use visual scripting (UE4's Blueprints)
• Component based design
• High level graphics pipeline
• The animation pipeline: from individual animations to blend spaces and animation state machines

Career Pathways: Spring

Weekly Android Workshops (Also hosted as an R'Course)

Another 10 week workshop covering various Android App concepts

• Teaches Java and XML
• Overview and usage of the Activity life cycle
• Process multi-touch input events
• Handle sensitive login information securely
• Creation of custom Android themes

Key Workshops

Professional Events

Collaboration

Hack Nights

Wednesdays 6-8pm

Students collaborate and work on projects including:

Android/iOS, Web, Games, Arduino, etc...

• Every year and major welcome
• Experienced mentors to help guide project leaders and their teams
• Currently collaborating with the entrepreneurship club on campus to pair engineers with business students

Programming Practice

Date: TBD, Weekly

Grad student led algorithms workshop

Aimed at helping students practice for ACM ICPC and IEEE Xtreme.

ACM Mentorship Program

Upperclassmen help first (and even second) years get through their courses and nudge them towards internships, research, and careers.

Also a good opportunity for struggling students to get some help and advice from someone who has already gone through the program.