ECS Honor Society

Mission Statement

The site is maintained by the Engineering and Computer Science Honors Society of The University of Texas at Dallas in order to provide better program organization, planning, and information dissemination among members, alumni, students, faculty and administration of the school.

Important Announcements

Academic honors information sessions

We are offering two information sessions for the academic honors programs. Check them out here.

Fall course schedule out!

Its time for registration! Take a look at the honors courses available.

Spring Meeting schedule

We have the dates for our Spring seminars. Mark your calendar. As always there will be pizza! Oh yeah, do you want another C++ tutorial session this semester? Send us an email and let us know. (Email is at the bottom of the page)

New Facebook Group!

We have finally joined the crowd and created a Facebook group for ECS Honors. The group name is "UTD ECS Honors". Please go visit our group, join today, and invite all your friends! (Edit list at ImportantAnnouncements)

Upcoming Events

Information Session with cookies and drinks!

Do you know... What the ECS Academic Honors Programs are? What honors classes are like? What classes are offered as honors? If you are eligible to join? Come to our information session for the answers to these questions and more. Join us for either session Tuesday, 4/7 4pm-5pm TI Auditorium Thursday, 4/9 7pm-8pm TI Auditorium

Seminar Meetings

We have decided on structure and format for regular organization meetings. Please mark your calendars! The goal of the meetings is to have a faculty member come give a talk to the group and introduce a cool research project for everyone to see and think about. After the talk we will handle announcements, chit-chat and eat pizza!

Upcoming events

We are in the process of setting a seminar schedule for the Spring semester. Below are the dates of meetings. Check back to learn the speakers and the title of their presentation.

04/22/09

5:30pm - 6:45pm

TI Auditorium

Spring 09 - Seminar- Mapping the Internet, Dr. K. Sarac

(View and edit list of upcoming and past events at AllEvents)

Who are we?

The Honors Council: (Alphabetical) Ryan Burchfield Alan Davis Paul Johnson Vitali Loseu Deana Pennell Our adviser: Dr. Venkatesan (Venky) To reach any of us please email

Top: Alan, Vitali, Paul, Venky Bottom: Ryan, Deana

Recent Pictures

Check out more pictures at our PhotoAlbum

C/C++ Tutorial Sessions

Deana teaches to a full crowd

Paul reviews Unix commands

Honors Courses

Fall 2009 Courses

Fall 2009	CS/SE 3345	Data Structures & Algorithm Analysis	I. Page	T/R 5:30-6:45pm
Fall 2009	CS 4341	Digital Logic & Computer Design	S.Q. Zheng	M/W 2:30-3:45pm
Fall 2009	CS/SE/TE 4348	Operating Systems Concepts	S. Venkatesan	T/R 11:30-12:45pm
Fall 2009	CS 4349	Advanced Algorithm Design & Analysis	B. Raghavachari	M/W 4:00-5:15pm

Spring 2009 Courses

Spring 2009	CS/SE 4347	Database Systems	L. Khan	T/R 10:00-11:15am
Spring 2009	CS/SE/TE 4348	Operating Systems Concepts	Venky	M/W 12:30-1:45pm
Spring 2009	CS 4384	Automata Theory	D. Huynh	M/W 10:30-11:45am

Fall 2008 Courses

Fall 2008	CS/SE 3345	Data Structures & Algorithm Analysis	I. Page	T/R 7:00-8:15pm
Fall 2008	CS 4341	Digital Logic & Computer Design	G. Dattatreya	M/W 2:30-3:45pm
Fall 2008	CS/SE/TE 4348	Operating Systems Concepts	S. Venkatesan	T/R 10:00-11:15am

(View past list of courses at HonorsCourses)

FAQs

We have the FAQs broken up into two sections. The first section is for questions regarding the ECS Honor Society (The student organization) and the second section is for questions regarding the academic honors programs.

ECS Honor Society FAQ

If you have questions about ECS academic honors programs consult our AcademicHonorsFAQ

What is the ECS Honors Society?

What is the difference between the ECS Honors Society and the CS/SE/EE/CE/TE Academic Honors Programs?

Who is eligible to join the ECS Honors Society?

How do I join the ECS Honors Society?

What can the ECS Honors Society do for me?

How do I get involved?

Can I suggest a cool project?

(Edit FAQs at HonorsSocietyFAQ)

ECS Academic Honors Programs FAQ

What is the ECS Academic Honors Program? What is the difference between the ECS Honors Society and the CS/SE/EE/CE/TE Academic Honors Programs? What are the entrance requirements for the CS/SE Academic Honors Program? What are the entrance requirements for the EE/CE/TE Academic Honors Program? How do I join one of these academic programs? How are CS Honors class sections different from non-honors CS sections? What rewards do I get for completing an ECS Academic Honors Program? Can I be in Fast-Track and Honors at the same time? CS Honors Prerequisites Chart Can you clarify the EE/CE/TE Honors Graduation Requirements? Are honors classes harder?/Will my GPA fall?

(Edit FAQs at AcademicHonorsFAQ)

-- RyanBurchfield - 19 Jan 2009