For Undergraduate Student: CSE is for You: Innovation, Flexibility and Exciting Opportunities.
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Innovation is central to many jobs in computer science and engineering. You get the opportunity to create new technology that helps others. The creativity, innovation, and fast pace of CSE mean that life will never be boring. Jobs are quite varied, so there’s a place for someone who wants to work alone or in small teams, and for someone who wants to spend most of her time working with people to make the world a better place. Work location, hours, and travel tend to be flexible, so you can often find a job that fits your goals and style. This session highlights various career paths, along with strategies for successful preparation for them.
Presenters: Soha Hassoun (Tufts University) and Tessa Lau (IBM Almaden Research Center)
How exiting your Computer Science Career could be is the intersection of innovation, opportunities and flexibility.
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Engineering Careers
There are many engineering careers. When you want to choose one you should ask yourself: What areas interest me?
- Programming: Write software.
- Software Design: Write the specifications, obtain the requirements.
- Testing: Testing the components, almost always automatically, to see if they integrate and meet the specifications.
- Consulting
- Technical Sales
- Architecture Design
- Hardware prototyping
- Hardware design
Career branches
There are three main branches you can choose as an engineering
Scientific Research
What is research?: It's exploring new frontiers of science and expanding the boundaries.
Academics
- Academic Research
- Teaching
Industry
Flexible roles at workplace
There are many roles that someone can performed in the workplace:
- Individual contributor: Coding up features
- Collaborator: Brainstorm ideas
- Leader: Set a project direction
- Mentor: Helping your peers
- Entrepreneur
- Executive
