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Michigan Technological University – Women in Computing Sciences
COMPUTER SCIENCE
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Why you should pay attention:
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BECAUSE YOU LIKE MONEY…
Objective-C$101,500
Perl$90,500
C#$91,000
Java$95,500
Ruby on Rails$88,500
PHP$79,500
C$93,500
Pascal$82,000
Erlang$103,000
JavaScript$89,000
C++$98,000
R$74,000
Visual Basic$81,500
SQL$86,500
COBOL$88,500
CoffeeScript$118,000
Scala$103,500
Shell$94,500
Groovy$107,500
Python$94,500
Programming LanguageAverage Salary
Source: http://www.indeed.com/salary
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BECAUSE YOU WANT A JOB…
Source: United States Department Of Labor – Bureau Of Labor Statistics
Occupation Median Salary Job Outlook
Computer and Information Systems Manager
$115,780 Good
Software Developer $90,530 Excellent
Database Administrator $73,490 Excellent
Computer Programmer $71,038 Okay
Professor $62,050 Good
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BECAUSE YOU WANT TO WORK FOR ONE OF THESE COMPANIES SOMEDAY…
or nearly any other company really, as you’ll see in a minute
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“Coding is the literacy of the future”- Evan Korth
CS Professor, New York University
BECAUSE
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So what is computer science?
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problem solving
com·put·er sci·ence Noun
“the scientific and practical approach to computation and its applications” - Wikipedia
“Learning and understanding the mathematical, scientific and engineering principles underlying every kind of computing system, from mobile phones and the internet, via systems that interpret natural language, to the supercomputers that forecast tomorrow’s weather or simulate the effects of disease on the human heart” - Oxford
learning
adaptation math
“If you like to solve puzzles, then computer science is for you! ” – Boston University
"COMPUTER SCIENCE IS NO MORE ABOUT COMPUTERS THAN ASTRONOMY IS ABOUT TELESCOPES" – Edsger Dijkstra
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“a career in software can take you into any part of the world you want to know about” –Greg Leitheister, Michigan Tech Class of 2003
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Having a CS degree allows you to “pick any field of interest” –Randy Berry, Michigan Tech Alumnus
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“I see computer science as a tool for achieving other goals. Nobody ever just does computer science.” – Aubrey Baker, Michigan Tech Class of 2010
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As a CS major you have so many options(and these are just a few)
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IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN BUSINESS
CAREER IDEASInformation TechnologyEntrepreneurDatabase ManagementManager/Project LeadFinancial Analyst
TECH ALUMNIMark Carter (IT)Adil Shafi (Entrepreneur)Douglas MacKenzie (Entrepreneur)Kevin Dietz (Entrepreneur)Linda Wittbrodt (Vice President of Research and Development)
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IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN RESEARCH
CAREER IDEASWork for an engineering companyWork for a science organizationCollege ProfessorResearcher
TECH ALUMNIStacey Keener (NASA)Brian VanVoorst (NASA)Harriet King (Research in Human Computer Interactions)
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IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN TEACHING
CAREER IDEASCollege ProfessorHigh School TeacherSoftware Education/Trainer
TECH ALUMNIDr. Charles Heiden (Part time instructor)Dr. Kenneth Williams (Associate Professor of Computer Science)Harriet King (We Help You Use Tech founder)Dr. Janet E. Burge (Associate Professor of Computer Science)
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IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN BIOLOGY / MEDICINE
CAREER IDEASBioinformaticsBiomedical Engineering (Robotic Prosthetics)ResearchHuman Genome ProjectImage Processing/Pattern RecognitionHealth Care Database Manager/Creator
TECH ALUMNIPaul Warnicke (Dynamic Software System Design, Pharmaceutical Company) James Mercer (Programmer in the Healthcare Industry)
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IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN THE ARTS
CAREER IDEASWeb DesignerInterface DesignerAudio Production/TechnologyVideo Game DesignerSpecial Effects/CGI StuffData Visualization
TECH ALUMNIAubrey Baker (Interface Design)
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IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN ENGINEERING
CAREER IDEASComputer EngineerSoftware Engineer (for engineering software)Modeling SoftwareComputer SimulationsAuto Industry (Autonomous Vehicles, etc.)Human Computer Interaction
TECH ALUMNIRobert Fjerstad (Senior Software Development Manager, AutoCAD)
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IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN MATH
CAREER IDEASData AnalystAlgorithm DesignerStatistician3D ModelingGame PhysicsSimulation Designer
TECH ALUMNIDaniel P. Maki (Algorithms for speech recognition)
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IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN NATURE/ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
CAREER IDEASTracking Systems DesignerData Collection Instruments Engineer/ProgrammerGeographic Information Systems (GIS) Designer
TECH ALUMNIAshley DePottey (GIS software developer)
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IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN ALL THAT COOL SCI-FI STUFF
CAREER IDEASRobotics/AIQuantum Computing
TECH ALUMNIAdil Shafi (SHAFI Inc, a robotics company)Douglas MacKenzie (Mobile Intelligence Corporation, a robotics company)
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IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN TRAVELING
CAREER IDEASWork for a big, international company
TECH ALUMNI (and places they’ve gone)Mark Carter (Germany)Larry Pieniazek (Weekly travel within the US)Dr. Janet E. Burge (15 months in Alaska, Switzerland)
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So what’s your next step?
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IF ANY OF THIS SOUNDS KIND OF COOL:
consider a CS degreethink about where your interests intersect, maybe that could be your niche
Stati
stics
Graphic Design
Computer Science
DataVisualization
(we know Venn diagrams are a bit corny…but they do illustrate our point nicely)