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 Henry Samueli School of Engineering has created a graduate student council which serves as a means of communication among the various majors and departments, and advises the Associate Dean, John LaRue, of any curriculum or programmatic issues or questions brought forth from the student body.  This group assists the Graduate Student Affairs Office with student recruitment, outreach, career days and corporate recruitment events, has a presence in the School's annual E-Week, and serves as contacts for prospective students.  These student leaders also help in planning orientation, poster sessions, and serve as ambassadors for the School, as well as act as  student "mentors" for new students, helping them become more engaged in the School and guiding them towards degree completion.

Please notify Sonja Dietrich, sonja.dietrich@uci.edu, if you are interested in the graduate council.

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 Sonja Dietrich at sonja.dietrich@uci.edu or Christy King at clking@uci.edu if you are interested becoming a mentor.