"Which side of the department do you work on? (ex: if you are EE and your advisor is CS, please answer CS)"	What is your gender?	What year are you in grad school?	Are you on a M.S. or Ph.D. degree track?	Do you feel you had ample opportunity to get to know your potential advisers and research groups before choosing a group?	Do you think your first-year experience would have benefited from a rotation system?	Do you think a  system of rotations would be beneficial for the EECS department?	"If you do not think a system of rotations would be beneficial, please explain."	"How difficult was securing an advisor (1 = easy, 5 = very difficult)?"	"What difficulties (if any) did you encounter in searching for an advisor (e.g. not knowing exactly how to start, establishing initial contact, etc.)?"	How could this process be improved?	Do you think having a second unofficial or 'academic' advisor would be helpful?	Do you have a research advisor?	How often do you meet with your advisor one-on-one?	 Does your advisor give you the right amount of guidance regarding what to work on?	Do you have freedom to pursue the research you want?	"If no, please give additional comments."	Do you have a weekly meeting with just your research group (i.e. your advisor & students)?	Do you feel that a weekly meeting with your immediate research group is beneficial?	"How often do you interact with faculty outside the context of advising, teaching, or pursuing a specific research project? (ex: general group meeting, department events, etc.)"	Please comment on ways to improve the working relationship with your advisor.	"When you started at Berkeley, were you assigned a 'Big Sibling' to answer your questions?"	"If you answered yes, did you find this pairing beneficial?"	"Do you think a more established program, where older students in your particular area were assigned to mentor you, would be helpful for answering your questions?"	Do you take part in a student-led seminar for reading and presenting research results?	Do you feel that such a forum for presenting ideas to peers is helpful / would be helpful?	Do you discuss research problems with the other grad students in your office?	"If yes, are their comments helpful?"	"If you only come into your office 1-2 days a week, please give reasons why you do not come in more often."	Do you feel that your office is too noisy and you can not work there?	How do you feel about the results of your office arrangement?   Are there ways to improve your working environment?	How often do you interact with students from the CS division if you are EE and with the EE division if you are CS for academic purposes?	How often do you interact with students from the CS division if you are EE and with the EE division if you are CS for social purposes?	Do you feel unity between the CS and EE divisions of the EECS department is:	Would an annual BBQ for both EE and CS help build a sense of community?	What do you think we could do to improve interaction between EE and CS divisions?	"What do you feel are unaddressed obstacles to student-faculty and/or peer interaction? Alternatively, what is the department doing well to facilitate such interactions? "	Do you think Cory and Soda halls have appropriate security measures in place to protect its students from theft and assault? 	"How diverse is the department? (EX: women and underrepresented ethnicities in influential departmental leadership positions, nationalities, differences in technical opinions, etc.)  (1 = not diverse, 5 = diverse)"	"Please comment on how diversity in the department may be improved, or how diversity can continue to be successful in your opinion."	Please give any other concerns (not covered in the above questions) that you feel should be addressed about graduate student life in the department.
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CS	Female	5 - 6	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		1			Yes	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		No	Yes	Once a week 		No		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes		Rarely	Once a month	Fair	Yes			Yes	2		
CS	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		3			No opinion	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		No	Yes	Every other week 		No		No	No	Yes	No			No		Rarely	Rarely	Fair	No			Yes	2		
CS	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		4	"Many choices, all very different"		Yes	Yes	Rarely	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely		Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No		It is quite possibly the worst working environment I have ever seen. I hate it. It is cramped. I did not feel safe leaving anything there for very long. It was not particularly quiet. It was dark and gloomy. Public areas (labs and alcoves) are much nicer.	Sometimes	"I guess something could be done to make the place less gloomy, but I don't see what else can be done without finding more space or crushing the spirits of my officemates."	Rarely	Rarely	Fair	No			Yes	3		
CS	Female	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	No	Yes		2			No	Yes	Once a month	Not enough	Yes		Yes	Yes	Once a week 	"After my advisor received tenure, he stopped showing interest in most of my groups' research projects.  It has been very frustrating.    It would be nice if there was someone (faculty) high up in the department with whom students could 'anonymously' discuss concerns about their advisor / student relationship.  Often it is hard to directly speak to the advisor because ultimately, he/she is the one signing the thesis (and some faculty seem to hold grudges...)"	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes	"My office has 7 students in it, all of who are in my area.  I have found this to be very beneficial, giving me the opportunity to bounce ideas off of other students.  However, when the office is full, it is very noisy - especially when our advisor stops by to talk.  The noise makes it very hard to work (headphones do not always work), so I sometimes have to give up and leave.  It would be nice to have an alternate quiet place to go when this happens (such as a study room) because the alcoves are often filled with undergrads."	Rarely	Once a week	Poor	Yes	"More social events between the two groups would be nice.  I recently heard that EE had a social event (bowling) with groups 'outside' the department.  As a CS student, it would have been nice to be invited  (CSGSA probably would have participated).   It seems as if the EE / CS sides are very split."		Yes	2		
CS	Male	3 - 4	PhD	Yes	No	No	I don't think it's feasible for a first-year student to take 2-3 classes (and maybe TA one) AND do 3-4 mini projects. First-years already have a lot of work as it is.	3			Yes	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Once a month 		Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		No		Rarely	Rarely	Poor	Yes			Yes	3		
EE	Male	1 - 2	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		1			Yes	Yes	Rarely	Not enough	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely		No		Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes		No		Rarely	Once a week	Poor	Yes			No	2		
EE	Male	3 - 4	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		3	"The only financial aid I was given was a GSI that didn't cover tuition, so I had to find an advisor immediately.  I found one but wasn't able to make a good decision and I ended up switching later on."		No	Yes	Every other week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Once a week 		No		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes	"The room I work in is ugly and uncomfortable.  Also, the space is underutilized - only about half of the desks have students assigned to them.  That doesn't help."	Rarely	Rarely	Poor	Yes	Have colloquia that would somehow be interesting to both sides.		Yes	4		
CS	Male	5 - 6	PhD																																					
CS	Male	3 - 4	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		4	"Not knowing how to start, how to sell myself, who was available. "	More coordination. Profs trying a bit to reach out to all students. 	No	Yes	Once a week	Just right	No	Focused on dissertation stuff. Little chance for collaboration.	Yes	No	Once a week 	"Earlier on I would have appreciated: 1. a chance to collaborate with others 2. an interest in what I wanted to pursue for my career, and some accompanying feedback as to how I should best go about getting there. It was just assumed that I was trying to get a tenure-track position at a top-tier university."	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes		Rarely	Once a week	Poor	Yes			No	3		
EE	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	Yes	No	"Sucks resources from existing groups, as established grad students have to spend time away from research to help new students."	1			No	Yes	Once a month	Not enough	Yes		Yes	No	Rarely		No		No	No	No	Yes	Yes		Yes	"Dude, we're in xxx Cory - previously known as 'storage room B'.  It's crowded, dirty, the trash never gets collected by custodial staff because it's up a flight of stairs, it has no air flow, no windows, and is outright miserable.  Some sweat shops have it better off.  Take some money and fix up the grad student offices on the first floor, as they have been vastly overlooked in comparison to 5th floor.  At least put on a new coat of paint so it's not piss-yellow."	Rarely	Rarely	Poor	Yes	I don't see a need for interaction in most specializations.		No	5	"I find the largest useful diversity doesn't come from ethnicity or gender, but from differences in engineering background.  Encourage more out-of-state applicants."	"The most unfair part of EE is the vastly different pay students receive for the same work.  Fellowship students can make upwards of 45K a year, where those without get 26K.  Sometimes fellowships are just handed out, so it isn't about a student earning a fellowship.  Equal work should mean equal pay.    The difference in pay sometimes creates or reinforces different social circles within the department."
CS	Male	7+	PhD	Yes	No	No	"The breadth coursework requirement provides ample opportunities for students to do small projects in different areas.  Also, I attended a variety of group meetings in my first year, enough to get a feel for the types of opportunities available (and to get ideas for course projects).  This informal system was adequate for me, at least."	1			No	Yes	Every other week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Twice a week 		Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes	"The ventilation system in our office has been quirky (in different ways) for most of the time I've been here.  I seem to have more allergies / respiratory problems when I sit close to the vents (so I now sit as far away from them as is possible in the office).    I'm also sometimes distracted by others around me; at those times, I often go to work in the individual study carels in the library."	Once a month	Once a month	Good	No	I think it's pretty good as it is.  I've had more academic interactions with the EE side in the past; it's just during this year that it has dropped to once a month or so.		Yes	2	"The computer science division is overwhelmingly male, both in terms of graduate (and undergraduate) students and in terms of faculty.  My understanding is that the same can be said at most other schools.  Unfortunately, I have no good ideas for how to change the situation."	
CS	Female	3 - 4	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		3	"I was not very focussed on what I wanted to do, so I had a bit of trouble knowing where to start.   "	By having students work in groups with professors.	No opinion	Yes	Twice a week	Just right	Yes		No	Do not know	Once a week 	"I feel that my working relationship with my advisor is excellent, but it would be nice to have a better working relationship with other faculty in the same area.  "	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	I live on the Berkeley-Oakland border due to the lower rent and it takes me > 45 mins to get to campus -- so I only come in when there is a talk I wish to hear or there is a meeting.	Sometimes		Rarely	Rarely	Poor	Yes	Combine the CSGSA and EEGSA social hours  	Students should try interact a bit more with other faculty in their area (other than their advisors). It would be nice if this issue was addressed.  	No	4		
EE	Male	5 - 6	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		3			No	Yes	Once a week	Just right	No	Funding problems.	Yes	Yes	Rarely		No		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes		Rarely	Rarely	Poor	No			Yes	3		
EE	Female	1 - 2	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes	"You have to be careful, even though it is a good idea.  You don't want to limit students to working with one of those 4 professors - they should still be able to talk to all the professors.  Maybe they could choose which 4 they would be rotated within, and then start the rotation half way through the first semester, after they've had a chance to talk to all the professors."	2	"It was difficult to choose which professor.  Also, many professors didn't have any funding."		Yes	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely	He's a great advisor.	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes	It's not too bad most of the time.	Once a week	Daily	Good	No	Invite each other to social hour.		Yes	1	"Hire more women in faculty positions.  Perhaps some sensitivity training for the department wouldn't go astray - posters that may make potential women graduate students uncomfortable should be removed, and advisors should attempt to make women feel welcome in their group. I know of one advisor who plays paintball as his social activity with his students - this may deter some women (or less physically agressive men) from joining his group."	
CS	Male	5 - 6	PhD	No	No	Yes		4	There were more students 'competiting' for advising slots than available in our preferred group		No opinion	Yes	Every other week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Once a week 		No		No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	"Phyiscal enviornment is not clean, properly temperature controlled, nor ergonomic"	Sometimes	New desks	Rarely	Daily	Poor	Yes			No	1	Very difficult to achieve given legal obstacles. Without critical mass its hard to attract the best. The department should vocally advocate its position.	"To help attact students to work in the building, the physical infrastructure should be improved.    Consider establishing a free food lounge (or alternatively, subsidize the lounge)"
EE	Male	3 - 4	PhD	Yes	No	No	"Rotations would have to be constructed carefully so as not to limit student choice. It may make more sense for parts of EECS with a lab component, but for theory, it doesn't."	1			No opinion	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Do not know	Once a week 		No		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes		Once a week	Once a month	Fair	Yes	A joint social hour would be nice.		No	1		
EE	Male	7+	PhD	Yes	No	No	seems pointless	2			No	Yes	Rarely	Not enough	Yes		No	Yes	Rarely	He should go on vacation less.	No		No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		No	The BWRC is often empty. 	Once a week	Rarely	Good	Yes	dunno		Yes	3		
CS	Male	1 - 2	PhD	Yes	No	Yes		2	"I was pretty lucky to be able to come up with a course project that actually evolved well, up to the point of a running system with some nice results. I think this has convinced (at least) my intended advisor that I'm capable of doing research under his guidance, which otherwise would have been quite difficult."	"The rotation idea is nice. Additionally, it would probably make sense that advisors encourage first-year grads to team up as junior participants under already running projects, and suggest a set of introductory level tasks that can be taken as course projects. This would probably lead to better utilization of time of both parties."	No opinion	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Once a week 		No		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		No		Rarely	Rarely	Fair	No	"I don't know. Personally, I don't feel that this kind of unity makes more sense than (for instance) unity with the math department, but that's just my opinion..."	"The department does just enough, I believe. The rest should be up to the peer students and faculty."	Yes	2	"Diversity in the ethnic sense is fine. However, gender-wise it is quite poor, and IMO partly because of insufficient efforts for recruiting more women (both students and faculty)."	"We seem to suffer from a decaying image, at least when it comes to recruiting new grad students, and sometimes with much justice. Mostly, I believe our grad student community has turned somewhat indifferent to the goals, subsequently less committed to the success, of the department. This should be addressed by further intervention and encouraging on behalf of the faculty, IMO."
EE	Female	5 - 6	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		1	not enough older graduate students to talk to.	making graduates from different groups more avaialbe and more honest about their advisors	Yes	Yes	Rarely	Not enough	Yes		No	Yes	Rarely	having a group meeting where he is obligated to show up.	No		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes	"yes, less socializing by people"	Rarely	Rarely	Poor	Yes	more interaction among groups who are working on similar ideas.  This could be accomplished by EE and CS advisors telling their students about what is going on in other groups.	"There is no limit on how many students a faculty takes on, and no one makes sure the advisor is doing his/her job in keeping up with each individual.  The department should have some way of enforcing more one-on-one advising."	Yes	2	Maybe making the environment a little more friendly toward women.	"The pressure on the students is a lot,and sometimes it seems like the faculty is either not aware of how much pressure/stress they put on the graduates or if they are aware, they just don't care.  It would be nice to have more guidance from ones advisor."
CS	Male	1 - 2	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		2			Yes	Yes	Every other week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Once a week 		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		No		Daily	Rarely	Fair	Yes			Yes	4		
EE	Female	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		3			Yes	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Once a week 		Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		No		Rarely	Rarely	Fair	Yes			Yes	4		
CS	Female	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		1			Yes	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely		No		No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		No		Rarely	Rarely	Poor	No			Yes	1		
EE	Male	5 - 6	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		1			Yes	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	No	Rarely		No		Yes	No	No	Yes	No		Sometimes	"I need more privacy.  I don't like to smell the food that other people are heating up in the oven.  I can't tolerate the body smell of some students that, most surprisingly, fills up the entire office space."	Rarely	Rarely	Poor	No	Admit more socially active students		Yes	5		
CS	Male	1 - 2	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		No advisor yet	"Professors not responding to emails, holding office hours, or setting up meetings readily."	It would have been nice to know what professors are looking for students.	Yes	No									Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	I am more productive at home. There are fewer distractions.	Sometimes		Rarely	Daily	Fair	Yes			Yes	2		
CS	Male	3 - 4	PhD	Yes	No	No	"Research can take a long or short time - it seems like a bad idea to fit that into a formal rotation system. In addition, some advisors do not have a large group that could support rotating members. In particular, advisors who prefer to work 1-on-1 may not be well served by a rotation scheme."	1	"When I initially contacted my advisor, he seemed somewhat lukewarm about having me. I found later that this was because he was worried about funding and didn't want me to feel tied down. This resolved itself, but initially I misunderstood and thought he was not interested."	"Hard question. Students encouraged to take more initiative? It worked out well for me, and I don't think we want anything as formal as CMU's marraige process. At the same time, I have had friends bounce from place to place before finding a match."	No	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		No	No	Twice a week 	"I have an excellent relationship, which is great. The only thing I asked him to change was to give me less 'filtered' reactions to possible projects I came up with. He did that, and since then I can't think of any issues."	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	"I come in more like 3 days/week, but still.    * I live down the hill and I am lazy about walking up.  * I need to get a lot of writing done and I prefer doing it with coffee -- and Brewed closes too early.(7pm)  * I have no classes at the moment."	No	"I'm finally in an office with other people in the same field, and I'm enjoying that a great deal."	Once a month	Once a month	Poor	No	Publicize each others' social hours. Have some of the same classes - the 219C verification course is an example of one that has both EE and CS.	The Theory-Lunch is by far my most frequent contact with faculty outside my advisor. That's a huge plus.	Yes	2	"Question 40 is pretty vauge. We count as a 4 or 5 on technical opinion diversity, but only 2 or so on background diversity.     With respect to diversity of backgrounds, e.g. women and minorities in computer science, we can't do much without good applicants. So if we are serious about that, then we need to start attracting and training such students at the undergraduate level. The one effort I've seen toward this, the SUPERB summer fellowships, is a good start but probably not enough. For one thing, it's only in the summer, and for another it's narrowly focused on research project placement.    A major problem here is that mentoring undergraduates is a lot of work. Furthermore, there is little reward for grad students to do it. The main mechanism we have for mentoring is to hire undergrads onto a research project. Then, with luck you get a publication, which is great, but if you do not then what? The answer usually is 'you've wasted your time.'     The best undergraduate mentoring I've seen has been in a large systems group project. There, the undergrad had a piece of his own and could work with a couple of grad students. This spread out the load and also provided for plenty of feedback opportunities. He turned out just great (although I wish he hadn't shown so many DVDs of CSI when I was trying to write papers.) Even here, though, the project has to choose from among more senior undergrads and specifically the ones interested in research.    Two ways to address this. First, get involved with the CSUA mentoring program on a wider scale. (If it's still running).     Second, look at CS undergrad admissions to the major. Is there anything that can be done there?    One pie-in-the-sky way to improve diversity: repeal Prop. 209 and bring back the Re-Entry Program. Not everyone who entered the Re-Entry Program became a grad student. Still, it opened up an important path for students that added to the department's diversity. "	
CS	Male	3 - 4	PhD	Yes	No	Yes		3			No opinion	Yes	Rarely	Not enough	Yes		No	Do not know	Rarely		Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No		No											
EE	Male	3 - 4	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		1			No	Yes	Every other week	Not enough	Yes		Yes	Yes	Once a month 	"In my case, my advisors office is on the first floor and my lab is on the 1st.  This distance actually reduces our interaction greatly.  We don't know when he is in, or will be in, and I believe he feels the same.  Proximity often helps reduce this."	No		No	No	No	Yes	Yes		Yes	"Our office is probably the most hideus office in the deparment.  It is located in the middle of the building on a mezzanine, no windows, small and stuffy.  It would be very nice to have more space and windows.  I think it is more approriate for labs to have a non-window space and for offices to have windows."	Rarely	Rarely	Poor	Yes			Yes	4		
EE	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	No	No		3	"I didnt know what exactly I wanted to do. So I wandered around with several professors until the end of my 3rd semester, I figured out what I would  like to do. "	"Nothing, if it's not broke, dont fix it"	Yes	Yes	Twice a week	Just right	Yes		No	Yes	Once a week 		No		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes	I'd like to have more free FOOD!	Rarely	Once a month	Fair	Yes	A bridge between Cory and Soda would help...    I'm not so good at interacting with cars running on Hearst ave	Everyone in EECS has a huge ego 	Yes	4		More free food
CS	Male	1 - 2	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		3		Short rotations would let the students try out several advisors and see if their styles match.	No opinion	Yes	Rarely	Not enough	Yes		Yes	Yes	Once a month 		No		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		No		Rarely	Daily	Good	Yes			Yes	3		
EE	Male	1 - 2	PhD	Yes	No	No		No advisor yet	My own indecisiveness with regards to thesis topic.	I have no problems with regards to the process of finding an advisor in wireless communications area. I think the system benefits greatly from the informal way in which the process is carried out.	No	No									No		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes	"490 is too noisy, too dirty, and the terminals are too old to work on."	Once a month	Once a week	Good	Yes			No	3	"Girl students! There aren't many here! But can it be helped? This being engineering. The ethnicities are well represented, though."	"Improve 490, it's a must.    Cory hall looks awful. Can't we make it a bit classy, so that it reflects the great minds inside? It's a banal building, and compared to other universities, not inviting enough. Not only does it make difference to students working in here, it makes a huge difference to anyone who comes on visit day, in his/her decision."
EE	Male	5 - 6	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		1			Yes	Yes	Rarely	Not enough	Yes		Yes	No	Twice a week 		No		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes		Rarely	Once a month	Poor	Yes			Yes	3		
EE	Male	1 - 2	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		2			No	Yes	Every other week	Not enough	Yes		Yes	Yes	Every other week 		No		No	No	No	Yes	Yes		Sometimes		Once a month	Daily	Fair	Yes			Yes	3		
CS	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	No	No	"I think it would be a waste of graduate students' time to do more mini-projects.  We already do  projects for many of our courses, which expose us to the major branches of computer science and to various topics in our chosen subfields.  Trying to crunch 3-4 more mini-projects into the first year would just be overwhelming.  I don't think such projects could have much depth.  "	1			No	Yes	Every other week	Not enough	Yes		Yes	Yes	Once a month 	"I could use more positive feedback.  Also, earlier in my grad school career, I needed more guidance on what to work on on a week-by-week basis.  "	No		No	No	No	Yes	Yes		No		Rarely	Once a month	Fair	No	I don't think such interaction is necessary.  The CS division is pretty big on its own; getting to know the people here is a big enough challenge.  	Our extensive course requirements have the side effect of making sure students interact with professors besides their advisors.  This is a good thing.  	Yes	4	"Improve retention of women in the PhD program, mainly through more supportive advising.  Continue recruiting students from all over the world.  "	
EE	Male	1 - 2	PhD	No	No	No	It would only be beneficial if you could choose a small subset of EECS to rotate within.	1			Yes	Yes	Rarely	Not enough	Yes		No	Yes	Rarely	More frequent one-on-one meetings.	No		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		No		Daily	Daily	Poor	No	Less bureaucracy	faculty placing administrative activities over student interaction	No	5		
EE	Male	1 - 2	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		4	not knowing who was taking on students		No	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		No	Yes	Once a month 		No		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes		Rarely	Rarely	Poor	No	"joint colloquium with speakers who know they are presenting to diverse group    having access to the others' buildings..., i.e. soda for ee students"		Yes	2		
EE	Female	7+	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		5	"I didn't really come in knowing how to do EECS research, so it seemed intimidating and confusing to initiate contact. Professors here do not seem to have different levels of projects available for students.    I think that an MS project should be built up to in small steps and those steps should be somewhat thought out about ahead of time by an advisor. I think a PhD topic shoudl be student-driven.  BUt I think too many faculty treat first and year students as if they should be able to plan their own path of resesarch.  This just is not possible for most people - without the vision and background that the professors have takens years to acquire.    I realize some students have that ability already.  But I think that some students do not, and professors should recognize that.  Other schools coddle their first years a bit more.  I think that is a good thing!  Even MIT has much lower research expectations of first and second years, than Berkeley seems to. "	"Rotations are an idea, but I don't really think that would work well in the more theoretical groups.    Perhaps within a subtopic (say, Controls, signal processing, CAD, etc.), each student could do a first semester project with a prof in their area.    And the projects should be *faculty* determined topics, that they think about ahead of time, with small steps that would guide the students toward learning how to do resesarch.    After that seemster project, the students could then choose advisors from those in their area.    I think this would help students who come in with brilliant coursework achievement, but no real research skills, to learn.    And it would force the faculty to actually think about how to teach students to do research.  I realize our faculty are veyr busy raising money, but not only should they occasionaly focus on the student population, it is in their best interests if students learn how to do research in a structure manner, instead of drowning as I hvaeseen many students do.    Also, I think this would alleviate the stress students feel in approaching professors, when the students feel they have no research skills. The first semester could then be a reserach-skill confidence building and learning event."	No	Yes	Once a week	Not enough	Yes		Yes	No	Once a week 		Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Working at home and cafes is easier and more efficient.	No	It;s great.	Rarely	Rarely	Poor	No	I don't know.		Yes	1	"If anyone answers that diveristy is successful, they are blind.    Look at the population in California and even in the US on a whole.  Our dept. is not diverse is any sense.  Few women are hired.  Fewer yet minorities are hired.    Any faculty member who focusses on such issues is clearly thought of as not being serious enough about their science.    The faculty in our dept. do not think about the dept. existing as a service to the community at large, or even to the students within the dept.    Basically, ehre as in all EE depts, all that professors are judged by is money brought in and papers accepted.    Teaching falls by the wayside, mentoring is not thought about, and diversity is not embraced.    Women and minorities are scrutinized and often put down by male faculty  - in a matter of fcat way.  The male faculty are not even ashamed enough of their thoughts to not announce them in public, say even at the retreat.         "	
EE	Female	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	No	No	"Without it being formalized, I believe most students find research advisors by working on 'mini-projects.'  Perhaps providing some guidelines and tips for talking to potential advisors via a mini-project proposal is useful.  Or providing guidelines for reviewing work is also useful.  Many students are fearful of asking for support directly.  It may be beneficial to suggest that the regularly scheduled student review is a good opportunity to discuss a permanent relationship.    However, I do not believe it would be beneficial to students to make the process too streamlined.  The responsibility to match students with advisors should be based not only on interests, but the ability to work well together.  As proof of this ability, it seems that the partnership should be able to come to agreement on a permanent situation on their own.  While difficult, I valued the experience of taking the initiative to approach potential advisors.  Important lessons include learning to convince others to work together, taking the initiative towards forming research ideas and next steps, overcoming shyness towards faculty.    Moreover, first-year students usually focus on course-work.  Many of these courses have mini-projects.  So students do have opportunities to work with faculty and work on projects just by taking courses related to areas of interest.  "	3	Not knowing how to start was most difficult. 	"How to find an advisor was not really talked about.  It would have been useful to have some general guidelines as to how and when to start searching for an advisor.  Mentioning that it is common to work on a sort of 'mini-project' would be useful here.  Also, tips on contacting professors (via e-mail, office hours, after class) would be useful."	No	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely		Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	"My office was in xxx Cory where it gets very hot sometimes.  We open the windows, but since there are no screens on the windows, this lets in large insects which are distracting.  If the offices were more comfortable, I would work in the office more often."	Sometimes		Once a week	Once a week	Fair	No	"More encouragement to understand the work from the other department.  As a EE student, it seems that more EE take courses in CS than CS students in EE.  While a BBQ would be fun, I also enjoyed department wide events like BAD (Bay Area Day) that combined presentations from EE and CS."		Yes	3		
CS	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes																																		
CS	Male	1 - 2	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		No advisor yet	"didn't know how to start, my temporary advisor was of little use. "	maybe a class where every lecture a different prof looking for students talks about their research and in the 2nd part of the class one of their students talks about their interactions with their advisor.. some structured way of figuring out potential research. 	No opinion	No									Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	"in my first semester i didn't come in super-often because i live in san francisco and didn't feel i was getting much from coming in every day. this semester, due to my schedule, i'm here every day."	Sometimes		Rarely	Rarely	Poor	Yes			No	2		
EE	Male	3 - 4	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		5	"In my year there were too many students in my research area, and also not enough grant money. So even if an advisor was willing to take you, he felt it was too much of a risk, if one didn't have a fellowship. Thus, if you had not take the prelims (end of first year), you would have no chance of interacting with faculty. At least that was what was circulated."	"I think a system based on small research experiences, with a more balanced number of students accepted into the program would be very beneficial.  Furthermore, first year students should be given a chance to prove themselves in research, beyond classroom grades. "	No	Yes	Every other week	Not enough	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely	1) More constant one-on-one meetings  	No		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	"1) Too many distractions in the office  2) Office space condition is worse than my own room   3) Only one lab mate, who is also infrequently not there"	Sometimes	"Yes, a cleaner office space with divisions and individual desks. "	Rarely	Once a month	Good	Yes		"*The department should promote more study group type situations for first year students;     *A clearer first year track should be presented (i.e . Math classes, EECS classes, stats, etc)."	No	3		
CS	Male	5 - 6	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		4			Yes	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Once a month 		No		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		No		Rarely	Rarely	Poor	Yes			Yes	3		
CS	Female	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		2	"Each advisor has his own criteria for choosing grad students. I guess it would have been helpful if those criteria had been laid out at the start of each trial run, e.g., successful completion of a project, attending and contributing to group meetings, discussing more senior grad students projects with them, etc."		No	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Once a week 		Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	I come in more often (because of classes) but I find I get more done at home because of a long commute and less interruptions at home.	No	Not really excited about moving into 420 or the RAD lab because I'm a more senior graduate student and I'm more interested in finishing up than interacting with people outside of my area of interest (or even sometimes inside my area of interest).	Rarely	Rarely	Poor	Yes	I mostly know about EE because I took a few EE classes. I wouldn't want to force new grad students to take EE classes though.	"Everyone is really busy, and interactions aren't always that productive. I'd say to co-locate professors and students on the same floor, but that might reduce productivity (of grad students). In general, if we want to interact academically with someone outside our interest it is not hard to find them. I'm not convinced putting Systems/Machine learning grad students in the same office will increase the number of beneficial interactions."	Yes	1	"I'd say hire more diverse faculty but that is not realistic because of funding and limited options (i.e., people available to hire)."	"My card key stops working a lot, so I don't like to work late, but that's pretty minor.    Consider what level of grad school people are at when encouraging interactions -- often they are helpful between senior/junior members of similar research groups (and any combination thereof), but less so among junior/junior members of different research groups (often a waste of time) and senior/senior members of different research areas (to focused on their own work to care). Some of us are focused on wanting to finish up, and know exactly how to do that, so these interactions are incredibly unhelpful, and make us want to stay home."
CS	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		3			No opinion	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		No	No	Once a week 		Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Not engaged in research with any of my officemates.	No		Rarely	Rarely	Poor	No	"Well, in many schools, CS and EE are two different departments.  Sometimes, they are even in different colleges (Engineering vs Science).  Given the pretty large gap in research topics, methodology, and focus, I'm not sure that EE and CS should be united any more than CS and some other department.  If anything, CS and SIMS should be closer together."	The RADS center is a (I think) good attempt to address these issues.	Yes	2	Admit African American students to the grad program for a change.	
EE	Male	1 - 2	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		4			No	Yes	Once a week	Not enough	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely		No		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		No		Once a week	Rarely	Fair	No			Yes	3		
CS	Male	3 - 4	PhD	Yes	No	No	Too much time will be lost in picking an advisor...we can always collaborate with other faculty if their research ends up being more interesting. 	3	"I didn't know exactly who was looking for students, and who had active, open projects that needed students. "	"If an advisor is not looking for students, he/she should make it clear to incoming and first year grad. students. "	Yes	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		No	Yes	Once a week 		Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes		Sometimes	"Things are ok, but crowded. I like not having cubicles...please don't build cubicles!    "	Rarely	Rarely	Poor	No			Yes	2	We need differences in technical opinions to inspire and stimulate new ideas and creative thinking. I feel that my group rarely looks at similar work being done in other disciplines. 	"The course load is too high and taking this many classes gets in the way of research. Since grades don't matter too much, we tend to ignore classwork sometimes, thereby negating the usefulness. "
CS	Male	5 - 6	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		3			No	Yes	Every other week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Do not know	Every other week 		No		No	No	No	Yes	Yes	i live in another state	Yes		Rarely	Rarely	Poor	No			No	2		
EE	Female	3 - 4	PhD	No	No	No	"I think it depends. This can be made as an option.  For those students who come to grad school with clear minds and expectations of their interests and field they want to research (e.g. someone who had working experience, master degrees or experienced undergrad), they might be able to settle down really quickly and start their research right away. It helps to develop their research ability, skills and gain other professional experience in a faster fashion.  For those who are not sure what exactly they want to do, they may need some time to get involved in different research groups and get more sense to make up their minds."	1			Yes	Yes	Once a week	Just right	No	"It's not the fault of any advisor. It's all about the system in the US. If the professor has money for certain projects, there are certain milstones or goals that you have to meet within some timelines. It's hard to pick up something you are interested in since there might not be enough money to support your idea. You can put your own ideas into any proposals that your adviors are about to submit, but again, they are ususally some programs launched by DARPA or NSF with some specific requirements. Also the chance for getting a proposal funded is quite small, since it's so competitive."	Yes	Yes	Rarely	"Communication is very important. Let your advisor know your thoughts, ideas, difficulties, etc immediately if there is any.  "	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes	It's pretty good now. I don't think it can be made better frankly.	Rarely	Rarely	Poor	Yes	"More joint social events and seminars maybe. Or some annual research poster session, lunchoen??"	Students and faculties are always swamped by their important work. The department should give them more motivations to interact with others. 	No	4	Try to offer more addmissions and scholarships to international students and establish some international exchange programs for research purposes.	"Other than the technical seminars, the department should hold some seminars for grad studetnts about their future career development, so they can plan things ahead. For those who would like to become faculty, what are the important steps and ability they should have? Do they go for postdoc position after graduation? Do they stay in the same group, same institute or it's better to do it in a different place? Do they need to gain more teaching experience? For those who would like to go to industry, how much intern experience they may need? Is it better to have some business backgroud if they may want to go for management in the future......  It may not be very formal. Could be like a small workshop once a semester or something. The professors can even share their own experience in a more casual fashion if they are willing to."
CS	Female	3 - 4	PhD	No	Yes	Yes	"I believe that rotating with different advisors will help with the overload that many professors have. In computer graphics it seems like one professor has all the students.    Also, I think it will help students be sure that the project they choose for theirs thesis is really the one they want to do."	5	Not enough outreach by professors on a normal level. Perhaps a more human approach would be better. 	Have events with faculty and students forming the research of the department together. i.e. grant writing sessions or course design workshops. Make the students own up to their duties as future leaders and faculty own up to their role as mentors. 	No	Yes	Once a month	Just right	Yes		Yes	Do not know	Twice a week 	The relationship is good. Even better after we had a casual lunch to talk as colleagues. It takes some time. But I think more training for younger profesors will improve working relationships for many more students.	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No computer resources. Research is done on personal equipment at home. 	No	"I used to never come in to the office. Now that I have been assigned an office space, I try to make it in more often because my officemates are so great. The working relationship is fantastic andfun."	Rarely	Rarely	Good	No	I don't see a difference at all...	"I think there needs to be more sorting out of faculty behavior and responsibility. There is an undercurrent of competition between some professors in CS and students notice it. Also some faculty members are ridiculously underfunded and that must be addressed first. Professors who can not secure funding should not advertise themselfs as able to accept students, period. It is unfair to have to TA every semester or work part time to finish your degree. And still have a professor expecting weekly meetings or performance on the level as people who do receive money. "	Yes	5	I think its great!	"I have spoken with many students in the department who said that the department was not accuratley represented when they agreed to come here. Either on the basis on funding, professors intentions on leaving and number of students a professor would be willing to take. I think a more honest program of advertisements to potential students will help them perform better one they do decide to join Berkeley."
EE	Female	3 - 4	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		2			No	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely		Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		No		Once a month	Once a month	Good	Yes			Yes	3		
EE	Male	1 - 2	PhD	Yes	No	No		4			No opinion	Yes	Every other week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Do not know	Once a week 		No		Yes	No	Yes	No			No		Rarely	Once a week	Fair	Yes			Yes	5		
EE	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	No	No	It's an additional requirement which would  slow down graduation for some.	2			No opinion	Yes	Every other week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely		No		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		No		Once a week	Rarely	Fair	Yes			Yes	2		
CS	Male	1 - 2	PhD	Yes	No	Yes	"I came in knowing who I was going to work with (because there were few HCI faculty members at the time).  However, I know students who have had a harder time finding an advisor who I think would benefit.  Such a system could of course be optional."	2	"Few problems.  We had been in contact the summer before I started, so it was fairly straightforward."	Maybe some kind of event near the beginning of the year for first-years to meet advisors and students in different research groups.	No opinion	Yes	Once a week	Not enough	Yes		Yes	Yes	Every other week 	"Establishing a good relationship seems to be a very personal thing, because it depends on the personalities and needs of each individual student and advisor.  Students just need to be encouraged to   discuss expectations and modes of operation with their advisor early in the process.    That said, research groups can provide a lot of support (older students who know the quirks of individual advisors, collaborations, etc.), and anything to encourage research groups to meet regularly and to share common space (many groups are quite spread out) can help foster this type of community."	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	"I have an office at Intel Berkeley, where I spend some of my time."	No	"I work in the Berkeley Institute of Design (BID) space, which I think provides an excellent model. It provides me with my own space but also fosters collaboration. (I co-authored a paper with the person who sits next to me, largely as a result of our physical proximity.)    It would be nice if the faculty offices were closer, since we're across the street from Soda.  A model of semi-open office spaces for research groups (or mixtures of different research groups) with faculty members nearby would be useful."	Rarely	Once a week	Good	Yes	"Joint social hours would be helpful, or possibly joint design courses that encouraged a mixing of different skill sets."	"The weekly research meetings for various projects are helpful and quite open.  I participate in meetings for both HCI and databases, and I feel welcomed at both.    More open office arrangements would definitely encourage peer collaboration, as long as the spaces were designed to give students an appropriate mixture of privacy and collaborative space (and were nice enough that people wouldn't choose to just work from home)."	Yes	4		"Security in Hearst Mining Building (BID lab) is not on par with the rest of the department, and we've been having a difficult time getting the university to act on any proposals for installing security systems or improving the security of building doors."
CS	Male	3 - 4	PhD																																					
EE	Male	5 - 6	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		2	None		Yes	Yes	Twice a week	Just right	Yes		No	Yes	Once a month 		No		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		No		Daily	Daily	Fair	No			No	3		
CS	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		1			Yes	Yes	Twice a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely		Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	"Usually, I come in almost all days.  But when I am writing code, I prefer undisturbed atmosphere of home, so sometimes I stick at home."	No		Rarely	Rarely	Poor	Yes			No	2		
CS	Male	5 - 6	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		5	"In some year, there are too many students to compete for good advisor."		Yes	Yes	Once a week	Not enough	Yes		Yes	Yes	Once a month 		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		No	Students need more interaction with faculties and students from other groups	Rarely	Once a month	Fair	Yes		"Every seems busy, every one only has limited time for others. No one cares you if your are not good."	No	3		
CS	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	No	No		3			No	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		No	Yes	Once a month 		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes		Rarely	Once a week	Poor	No	somehow have a common building space where both cs and ee students are mixed up. 		Yes	3		
EE	Female	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		1			No opinion	Yes	Once a month	Not enough	Yes		No	Do not know	Rarely		Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No		No		Rarely	Rarely	Good	No			Yes	2		
CS	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes	"The rotation system has to be available but not necessary.  If someone has an advisor already, they shouldn't be required to do a bunch of rotations."	1	Finding out what professors were currently working on.  	Mandate professors put up to date abstracts in the research summary book so we know what their students are working on.	No	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes	Sometimes too much freedom and not enough 'do this specifically and you will get a masters'	Yes	Yes	Rarely		No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		No	"The arrangement was good, but is not going to be all messed up with the RAD lab displacing us.  The new office will have more people making discussion without our group a little more bothersome to others."	Once a week	Rarely	Fair	Yes	Aside from not having us in seperate buildings...	"Students are spread out between different buildings/labs making day-to-day interaction difficult.  Not many students left in Soda.  Lack of full CS or full EECS 'retreats', not just social event, but something with mini research talks, etc and social aspects."	No	2		I think we need more all CS (or EECS) mini poster sessions just to see what research is going on in the department.  It's too hard to find out what people are working on.
EE	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		2			Yes	Yes	Every other week	Just right	Yes		No	No	Once a week 		No		Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes		No		Rarely	Rarely	Fair	Yes			Yes	2		
CS	Male	1 - 2	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		4			Yes	Yes	Once a week	Not enough	Yes		Yes	Do not know	Rarely		No		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes		Rarely	Rarely	Good	No			Yes	4		
EE	Female	5 - 6	PhD	No	Yes	Yes	"There is one caveat to the rotation system.  If a student already knows what he/she wants to do and just wants to start doing research, then they should not be forced to do a rotation.  "	3	Not knowing how to start and getting a solid idea of what the advisor was like either from students or personal interaction.	"Maybe have some sort of review when people graduate, that is anonymous, so students can speak freely about his/her advisor.  Incoming students can then look at these reviews to get a better idea of the style of the advisor."	Yes	Yes	Rarely	Not enough	Yes		No	Do not know	Twice a week 	"I have tried multiple ways, from setting up bi-monthly meetings to emailing project ideas etc.  The best thing I have come up with is finding a good co-advisor who I can meet with more regularly."	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Too noisy	Sometimes		Once a week	Once a week	Fair	Yes			No	3	"A more supportive environment is needed.  Having support groups like WICSE, BGESS etc. are good ways.  Also, maybe educating professors more on the issue is just a good step to take."	
CS	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes	"I think rotations would be beneficial for some students, but I think students should also be able to opt out whenever they have chosen a permanent research advisor."	2			No opinion	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely		No		No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		No		Rarely	Rarely	Poor	Yes			Yes	2		
CS	Male	7+	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		4	"1) Did not know what advisors or projects were available    2) Had no understanding of advising relationships on which to base decision    3) Temporary advisor needed students, didn't help us find better fit    4) Fell into bad situation"	"Emphasize importance of finding good fit to new students    Broadcast opportunities to all first years.  Group lunches, office hours, etc.  A project 'fair' would be great, but possibly too hard to organize."	Yes	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes	Only now.  My original research advisor was very pushy.	Yes	Yes	Once a week 	"A seminar on basic advising and research skills would benefit both the students and the advisors.  Some of our senior faculty are not particularly good at advising, either."	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		No		Rarely	Rarely	Poor	No	The motivation is not clear.  Why bother?	Putting the faculty up on the top floors was a bad idea.  Our group is building a more-integrated setup on the fourth floor.  I like that idea.	Yes	2		Housing costs.
CS	Male	7+	PhD	Yes	No	Yes		1			No opinion	Yes	Every other week	Not enough	Yes		Yes	Yes	Every other week 		Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	"Two reasons: transportation expense and system support.  The first is relatively minor.    The CUSG- and SWW-'supported' systems are a joke.  Software is left partially installed. Try the Sun compilers with OpenMP on argus; most department Suns are missing the required OS patches to run the compilers.  The TeX system is antequated even though there are many trivial-to-install versions available.  Our desktops are old, slow, and breaking, but because of the miserable support, the only reasonable choice for replacements run Windows.  That's useless to me and actually hurts our research.    So I'm left either maintaining my office system myself, or just working at home.  At least in the latter case, I get to keep the results."	No	"Fix CUSG and SWW.    The recharge model is broken.  It requires the minimum amount of work to make a change, so the changes are sloppy, poorly executed, and made only on a case-by-case basis.  This leads to HIGHER support costs and also costs you personnel."	Once a month	Rarely	Fair	Yes			Yes	2	"Question 40 is bogus.  '[D]ifferences in technical opinions' abound.  That's not what you meant, and it'll skew the results."	
CS	Male	5 - 6	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		5			Yes	Yes	Every other week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Every other week 		No		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes		Rarely	Rarely	Good	Yes			No	3		
CS	Female	3 - 4	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		5			Yes	Yes	Once a week	Just right	No	My advisor has a specific project he wants me to work on. I have some wiggle room within the given project. 	No	Yes	Rarely		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		No		Once a week	Once a month	Fair	Yes			Yes	3		
EE	Male	1 - 2	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		1	"I didn't know how the process should go, so I ended up working for the first professor I talked to.  I think now that maybe I should have looked around more."	More definition as to what is a normal process as far as finding an advisor	No opinion	Yes	Once a month	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Once a week 		No		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		No	I like it. Lots of interaction with other students.	Rarely	Once a week	Poor	Yes	Have more social mixers		Yes	1	"Find a way to encourage more females to attend school, and stay for a ph.d instead of just masters."	
EE	Male	3 - 4	MS	No	Yes	Yes		5	"Not knowing how to start and contact people were certainly difficult.  Also, all faculty in my area suggested that they didn't want to take people (especially first years) despite the fact that there were many (i.e. around 10) new students in the area.  So, most of us didn't get advisors for a long time and had to try out for professors before they would let us work with them (which is exceedingly difficult when you have classes and GSIing to deal with at the same time)."	"Rotations would work pretty well I think, something where you can get a feel for the advisor and play around with some ideas while having some deadlines.  It wouldn't counteract the problem of balancing work and classes, but maybe first years should cut back slightly on the course load."	No opinion	Yes	Rarely	Not enough	Yes	"But the problem is that I have way too much freedom, there's no feedback or guidance leaving me lost in what work to do (and anytime I have an idea, my advisor seems to shoot it down before I get a chance to explore it)."	Yes	No	Rarely	"Just depends on who the advisor is, I don't think there's any way my advisor would change..."	No		Yes	No	Yes	No		It's loud and uncomfortable in the office so I feel that my time is better spent working elsewhere (and my officemates don't really work on the same research area as me).	Yes	"We just got new offices and they're reasonably arranged, but I think natural light would help.  Also, enforcing people to talk in our lounge area as opposed to at the desks would GREATLY help avoid annoyances."	Rarely	Once a month	Fair	Yes	Get rid of the street in between the buildings...		Yes	3	"I feel that given we are one of the best schools in the world, we actually are quite diverse.  Especially coming in, I was surprised to see such a spectrum of backgrounds, interests, etc.  I think we could certainly be more diverse but it may be at a cost of getting top students (I think fundamentally if there isn't a diverse pool of students at the top (for whatever reasons), we can't expect our department to create diversity). "	
CS	Male	1 - 2	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		1			Yes	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Once a week 		Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	no windows	No	windows!!! a desktop w/ nice monitor would be nice too	Rarely	Rarely	Fair	Yes			Yes	3		
EE	Male	1 - 2	PhD	Yes	No	Yes		3			No opinion	Yes	Once a month	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Once a month 		No		Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes		Sometimes	"If we had individual offices with doors to close and individual lights to turn on/off I would be much more productive so I wasn't distracted by meetings and discussions in surrounding cubicles and the buzzing of the fluorescent lights above our heads even in the middle of the day when the sun is shining through the windows.  My working environment could be greatly improved by changing from a cubicle arrangement to individual offices, even if they were very small. "	Rarely	Once a month	Good	Yes		"For students coming from industry or returning to school after a break from academia, the department doesn't clearly define what is expected of students, and some of us have forgotten the divide that exists in terms of power dynamics in academia between graduate students and faculty.  I think this power dynamic stifles innovation and fosters dependence of grad students on advisors.  For instance, there is no formal support for students who are attempting to write their own proposals to get external funding.  It seems that the student is expected to be dependent on the advisor for funding when in reality many could be getting their own funding from outside sources if their was more cooperation from faculty to collaborate with students on proposal writing, grant finding, etc."	Yes	3	There's obviously a lack of women and minorities in engineering....  more agressive affirmative action admission is always a positive way to narrow this divide.  	It would be nice if there was a formal prelim preparation group formed within EECS for each speciality to help those who are taking prelims after their 1st and 2nd semesters at UCB.
CS	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	No	No		2			Yes	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Every other week 		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes	Too noisy sometimes. Reduce number of students per office.	Once a week	Rarely	Fair	Yes	"Joint research projects. The networking group at EE and CS has lots of snergy and overlapping interests, but no much done in terms of working together."		No	3	"Have more women and under-represented minorities by giving them scholarships, priority for funding and TA-ships."	
CS	Male	1 - 2	PhD	Yes	No	No	"Personally I was here as an undergrad, so I have a pretty skewed view of things like this.  But I knew who I wanted to work with before I was a grad student.  In general however, I think this would just split students time too much."	1	"Not knowing where to start was a bit of a problem, but I was an undergrad here, so again, I'm atypical."	"I think one of the big flaws of this department is the lack of centralized, staff supported web site hosting.  This cuts down the number of faculty and research projects which have useful websites.  Not to mention the lack of a technical report/paper archive for the department.  Overall, just organizing the research results and publicizing them through better websites would help.  But professors and grad students need staff help to do this!"	No	Yes	Every other week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Do not know	Rarely		No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	It's not the nicest place to work.  Plus it's a little hard to focus around people I'm friends with.	Sometimes	"Not really.  Time, not space is the limiting factor in my work."	Once a month	Rarely	Fair	No	"I don't think there's a problem with a social gap.  If you want these two groups closer together, they need to be drawn together by research.  I think there are a lot of projects the two departments could collaborate more on, but that's only my opinion."	"I think the instructors of grad classes tend not to relate to their students particularly well.  Not all of them pay enough attention to teaching at the graduate level.  Also, I am fed up with the 'first year' classes were they're trying to force feed us 'how to do research' advice.  It's a HUGE time waster."	Yes	3		
EE	Male	7+	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		4			Yes	Yes	Once a month	Just right	Yes		No	Yes	Rarely		No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		No		Rarely	Rarely	Fair	Yes			No	4		
CS	Male	5 - 6	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		4	"Establishing initial contact, learning about research agenda of faculty, making a match with new grad students does not seem like a high priority for most faculty"	"I think it comes down to the faculty.  Most complaints I have about the grad student/grad school experience can be attributed to the fact that mentoring grad students is very low on the list of priorities for the average faculty member.  It seems that most faculty members are more concerned about running off-campus research labs, starting companies, consulting for industrial partners, etc..  Until limits are placed on outside limits, students (both grad and undergrad) will remain a very low priority for most faculty."	Yes	Yes	Every other week	Not enough	Yes		No	Yes	Rarely	"A working relationship requires time.  This is time that most faculty do not want to invest.  (Admittedly, some students do not want to invest the time either.)  If faculty want to improve the working relationship with their students, they need to invest more time to advising."	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	#NAME?	Sometimes		Rarely	Rarely	Poor	No	"I do not have much interaction with other groups in CS (like theory or graphics or AI).  The gap between CS and EE is even wider, making interaction even more difficult.  I do not see it improving, nor do I think it is the most pressing problem right now."	"The problem with faculty/student interaction is time.  Faculty do not have time to invest in interaction.  It seems that most faculty members are more concerned about running off-campus research labs, starting companies, consulting for industrial partners, etc..  Until limits are placed on outside limits, student interaction will remain a very low priority for most faculty.  The level of peer interaction is determined by office location.  For peers in Soda, interaction is easy.  For peers that work at Intel, ISCI, Yahoo, or other outside labs, they might as well not be a part of the department, from the perspective of interaction."	Yes	5	I do not care about politically-correct diversity--I care about ideas.  I believe our department gives everybody a chance to succeed based on the quality of their ideas and work.  I believe the department should avoid any attempts to alter the population of the department toward some politically-correct notion of diversity.	"I hope the department realizes the negative effects that the outside labs (Intel, ICSI, Yahoo) are having on the department (especially in systems research).  If today's environment had existed when I was choosing grad school, I would have gone elsewhere.  The labs have fractured and divided researchers (both faculty and students) and have crippled collaboration in the department."
CS	Male	1 - 2	MS	No	Yes	Yes		4			No opinion	Yes	Every other week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely		Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		No		Rarely	Rarely	Good	Yes			Yes	3	I don't think diversity is that important	  Graduate Students should be more outgoing!
CS	Female	1 - 2	PhD	Yes	No	No	"My impression of rotations is that they are so short that they result in busy work when one does not choose to remain with that professor.  This is not necessarily helpful to first year graduate students.    But it would be nice for the department to encourage more interaction between the first-year students and the professors.  In some research areas, it is difficult to discover which professors are actually doing work in that area.  The web site needs to be updated to reflect professors' current interests and availability.  Some professors that are not here are still listed on the web site.  "	4	"My options within the department were limited.  That made the choice difficult.  In addition, it was not clear how my academic future would be if I chose to work with someone outside the department."	"By making more information available to students, both on the website and by organizing faculty student mixers."	Yes	Yes	Every other week	Not enough	Yes	I must mention that I meet nearly every week with an informal co-advisor at ICSI.  This works out well for me.	No	Do not know	Rarely		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	I find my office uncomfortable.  I prefer to work other places.	Sometimes	"My office does not work very well for me.  The chairs and desks are not suited to using a computer.  The desk is too high relative to the height of the chair.  Also, I do not have good rapport with the students in my office partly because they work in a different area than I do."	Rarely	Once a week	Good	Yes	I think it is fairly good.	"I find the environment in the department a bit cold.  People rarely smile and say hi, unless they know someone else very well."	Yes	2	"A gender blind application review process for student applications.  And, I believe it would help to have a woman chair faculty search committees."	
EE	Male	3 - 4	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		2			Yes	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely		No		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes		Rarely	Rarely	Poor	No			Yes	3		
CS	Male	3 - 4	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		5	"Hard to get involved in group projects, perhaps because of my background (lousy undergrad university). Also probably because I'm not good at selling myself."	"Force faculties to try out new grad students, some just don't care. Get senior grad students to help out too. New grads should also understand that taking courses is as important as doing research which will help them get advisors. Some I met are just crazy: they take 5 courses, can't work on their research, and expect to be funded."	Yes	Yes	Once a week	Just right	No	"The research group's ultimate goal is at the top of the list. It's not too interesting to me, but I had to finish it first before getting a chance to work on what I like."	Yes	Do not know	Rarely	Don't really know...	No		Yes	Yes	Yes	No			Sometimes	"I would very much prefer a more private setting: few students in one office. I'm not quite happy with the new RADLAB, where it's much more open. There're security issues."	Once a month	Once a month	Poor	No	The faculties need to talk first.	"There are issues related to plagiarism. It's not too widespread, but it exists, and it causes a great deal of headache for those involved. Usually the students whose work are being copied don't let their advisors know, because they probably don't really know how to handle the situation. "	Yes	5		
EE	Do not wish to answer	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		4			No opinion	Yes	Once a week	Not enough	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely		Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes		No		Rarely	Rarely	Fair	Yes			Yes	4		
CS	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes	"I think it would be beneficial, but is there a practical way of doing this? Specifically, there are overheads involved with working with a professor. Perhaps the status quo filtering of surreptitious gossip and web browsing is cost-effective."	3			No opinion	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		No	Do not know	Rarely		No		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	overhead of commuting; other places to be. 	No	my office is about 20% occupied. Sometimes I wish more people were here. 	Rarely	Rarely	Poor	Yes			Yes	5		
EE	Male	5 - 6	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		4	Not so much the advisor as the research project.  I didn't really know what doing research in a particular area entailed (it turns out that making things in the microlab is very similar to working in a fancy kitchen.)	I like the idea of a rotation so that students can see what daily life is like when doing projects in MEMs or Wireless or Optics or Circuits...	No	Yes	Twice a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Once a week 		No		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		No	"Fantastic.  xxx Cory.  Best office I've been in the entire time I've been at Cal.  (Uh-oh, I've given up my anonymity. Did I mention how much I love working with my advisor?)"	Rarely	Rarely	Fair	Yes	Linux on all those laptops they give us when we come in.		Yes	3		"Hey, if nobody is planning on sticking a building or a swimming pool or any sort of useful structure in the HUGE HOLE next to Cory Hall, can we maybe fence off the hole and open up the North side of campus? Crossing the street twice to get from North Gate to Cory is annoying and dangerous and I'm sure the community would appreciate getting the parking spaces back.  The automobile traffic is messed up with the extra pedestrian crossings and the foot traffic is slowly destroying the elevators in Cory Hall."
CS	Male	7+	PhD																																					
EE	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	No	No	It's wastage of time for the grad student and the faculty both; we have an opportunity to change advisors after master's thesis.	4	None as such.	No idea. Flyers from the grad office about how to go looking for an advisor is an option. Mostly my room-mate told and inspired me to find an advisor.	No	Yes	Every other week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Twice a week 		No		No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes		Rarely	Once a month	Fair	No			No	4		There are some harsh professors who act rude in qualifying exams and afterwards.
CS	Female	1 - 2	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		4	"couldn't get in touch with students easily, esp. when they didn't all sit in an official lab.  hard to know what's really out there."	"could spend a week or 2 with a group at a time, guaranteed meeting time with interested professors, the students in the research group (obviously can't actually get much done). semester long rotations wouldn't help much, since we only have two, it'll just be more stressful...  "	Yes	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely		Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes		Sometimes	it's great	Daily	Daily	Good	Yes			Yes	3		
EE	Male	3 - 4	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes	"Not quite sure on Q 7 & 8. I tend to say yes, but not a sure yes. I think class project accomplish the same thing"	4	- Advisor not taking students  - It's hard to get to know an advisor without taking their respective classes		No	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely		No		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes		Rarely	Rarely	Fair	Yes			Yes	4		
CS	Male	1 - 2	PhD	Yes	No	No	"It is difficult to find these faculty members at the very beginning of your program. I found the faculty who is going to be my advisor in the second semester, and he is in math department. CS rotation might fail helping me to find him."	No advisor yet	"I thought that my goal was to convince the faculty member I wanted to work with to work with me. But it turned out that my goal is to look for the ample opportunities within my major, beyond my major and even beyond my department and have hard time choosing what of these excellent choices suits me best."	"Advising on advisor search could be done better. Temporary advisors could explain in more detail how to look for an advisor and what kind of freedom in choosing an advisor I have. Advises on approaching faculty members would also be helpful. I am a new guy here, I don't know how things are run and they are very different from where I've been before. Few general advices are not enough, I need details, examples and guidance."	No opinion	No									Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	"I used to come more often, but now see that it's not   a good idea. It is much better to work at home - no people around, much easier to concentrate."	Sometimes	"I have table, I have shelves, I have network. It's enough for work. But it is terribly dull! Making it more aesthetically admittable could help me feeling happier, having better inspiration and creativity."	Rarely	Rarely	Poor	No	What is so special about EE? This affiliation is purely administrative. I feel closer to math department than to EE.		Yes	5		
CS	Male	1 - 2	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		3			Yes	No									Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		No		Rarely	Rarely	Fair	Yes			Yes	2		
EE	Male	1 - 2	PhD	No	Yes	Yes	"The biggest problems with the advisor hunt were the competitiveness and the ambiguity of the process.  If there were a system like described above it would make it much less uncertain and would give opportunites to impress sought after advisors.  But, it would be a big load on the faculty."	2	I got lucky because someone who has turned out to be good so far approached me.  But if that hadn't have happened I would have had to compete with 15 circuit students who were more knowledgeable that me.	Have some sort of defined process and engourage advisors to make more contact the summer before.	Yes	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely		No		Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes		No	"I work in xxx Cory and it gets pretty dusty/dirty.  Maybe if it were cleaned, or had some cleaning supplies avalible I would be happier."	Rarely	Rarely	Fair	Yes		"I don't feel like I know professors other than my advisor.  I wish there were some formal way to get to know them.  Even having faculty, as opposed to old grad students or other types, teach all classes would be better"	Yes	5	I don't value diversity very much	
EE	Male	3 - 4	MS	Yes	Yes	Yes		4			No	Yes	Every other week	Just right	No		No	No	Once a week 		No		No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	A person in my lab is too loud and bothers everybody. 	Yes		Rarely	Rarely	Fair	No			Yes	2		
CS	Male	3 - 4	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		1		"More guidance - a more formal system.  Right now, it's mass chaos.  If there were a formal system governing who/what/when/how, things may be easier."	Yes	Yes	Once a week	Not enough	Yes		Yes	Yes	Twice a week 		Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	"I come almost everyday, but for the most part, no one else is here - it *severly* degrades the quality of research here.  The main reason I go elsewhere is because no one else is around - if there aren't people around, I may as well go to a coffeeshop and work - at least they have coffee/snacks. "	No	More open space - more interaction between students!!!  More natural light!	Rarely	Rarely	Poor	Yes			Yes	2	"Change the entire computer science culture in this country (i.e., its not likely to change anytime soon)"	
EE	Female	3 - 4	PhD	Yes	No	Yes	"It could be helpful, but should definitely be optional."	1			No	Yes	Once a month	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Once a week 		Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes		Rarely	Once a week	Fair	Yes			Yes	2		
EE	Male	1 - 2	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		3			Yes	Yes	Once a week	Not enough	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely		No		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes		Once a week	Once a week	Fair	Yes			Yes	3		
EE	Male	1 - 2	PhD																																					
EE	Male	1 - 2	PhD	Yes	No	No	They don't last long enough to give more than an overview and first year is already busy with classes.	1			Yes	Yes	Rarely	Just right	Yes		Yes	No	Once a month 		No		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		No	The cubes are great	Rarely	Rarely	Poor	Yes			Yes	4		
EE	Male	3 - 4	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		3			Yes	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		No	Yes	Once a month 		No		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		No	Wireless Foundations is an excellent environment to encourage collaboration between students and faculty. I think similar office spaces would be usefull for other areas. 	Daily	Once a week	Fair	Yes			Yes	2		
CS	Male	7+	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		1			Yes	Yes	Once a week	Not enough	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely		No		No	No	No	Yes	Yes		No		Rarely	Rarely	Fair	No	Build an airbridge between Soda and Cory.  		No	4		
CS	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	No	No	What's a system of rotations?	2	My slowness to commit.	"FWIW a nudge would have made me choose more quickly.  OTOH, I had an advisor by the middle of my second semester."	Yes	Yes	Once a week	Not enough	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely		No		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes	"Issue all new grad students a big ol' pair of noise cancelling headphones.    Also, make the computer / network infrastructure not suck."	Rarely	Rarely	Poor	No	"Why exactly is such a goal desireable compared to, say, increasing interaction among different cs areas?"	grad school is hard	Yes	2	solve society's problems.	
CS	Male	1 - 2	PhD	No	Yes	Yes	"I have already independently thought that the idea of rotations in CS theory would be hugely beneficial.  I wish I would have had them.  The problem isn't so much no getting exposure to the most likely advisor, it is that I have only one choice now because I only know one professor.      Two extra points:  I think this is a great idea for theory, I don't know about other areas.    Also, one should be able to opt out of the system if the don't want to participate."	No advisor yet	"not knowing exactly how to start, establishing initial contact, etc.  That pretty well summerizes it."	The prelims helped a lot.  Rotations would also help a lot.  Maybe some professor presentations at the beginning for the students to get to know the professors.	No opinion	No									No		No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes	"One  student did great at getting the room better set up.  It was crap when we got here.  It took a lot of work to overcome the buracracy to get some stuff fixed (lights, AC, etc)."	Rarely	Rarely	Poor	No	I don't care about them.  I am closer to the Stat department.	theory has a lot of presentations which bring all together.	Yes	3	More people from the Midwest.  More conservative Christians too.  Seems like these types are about as underrepresented as the obvious (and more often mentioned) candidates.	"It would be nice if the students knew each other better.  This could happen with a few mixers at the beginning of the year.  Also, the grad lounge is a dungeon.  It would be nice to see that put to actual use."
CS	Male	3 - 4	PhD	No	No	Yes		4	I did not know exactly how to start. It was often difficult to set up appointments with faculties.  		Yes	Yes	Rarely	Not enough	Yes		No	Do not know	Rarely		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes		Rarely	Rarely	Poor	No			No	3		
EE	Male	3 - 4	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes																																		
CS	Male	1 - 2	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		2			Yes	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Do not know	Rarely		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes			No		Rarely	Rarely	Poor	Yes			No	3		
CS	Male	3 - 4	PhD	No	Yes	Yes																																		
EE	Male	3 - 4	PhD																																					
EE	Male	1 - 2	PhD																																					
CS	Male	1 - 2	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		3			Yes	Yes	Once a month	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		No	"The first year office on the 4th, 5th floor are not ideal.  One serious issue that stays unsolved is the temperature, which is uninamously recognized to be way too cold.  I had to wear gloves on some nights, seriously.  We filed a request using the online form on the eecs website but no measures were taken.  A simple improvement: the doors close automatically, which seems contradictory to the 'open door' philosophy of the department.  That could be fixed easily.  Each office is assigned with too many people, yet they are not frequented regularily because they are not very appealing.  No natural light, they are too long and narrow and end up looking like a mess of unused chairs.  The only intervention made this semester on the offices was to remove the posters from the last years, after which the offices looked even more empty and abandonned.  "	Rarely	Rarely	Fair	Yes	Joint social hours.		No	2		"No graduate AI course offered next semester. Is that normal?    General comment about the course I have taken so far:  challenging assignments is fine.  But it is not the only goal with assignments, I think that their pedagogical potential is not fully exploited.  e.g. shorter weekly assignments with questions of various difficulty instead of big assignments every 2, 3 or even 4 weeks.  Making links during the lectures with the assignments is good."
CS	Male	1 - 2	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		1			No opinion	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Once a week 		Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		No		Rarely	Once a month	Poor	No	Have regular inter-division student talks	Department should have more social events other than the social hour. Also a better grad lounge (with a couple of game tables) where grad students may relax might help.	Yes	2		
CS	Male	3 - 4	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		3	it was often difficult to gauge who was actively looking for students		No opinion	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Once a week 		No		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes	"there are lots of distractions in the office.  these are both research related (useful) and random (not useful).  to me, this environment is beneficial."	Once a week	Daily	Good	Yes	combined bar nights would be cool		Yes	1	too hard to solve in a text box.  this is a big social issue	
EE	Male	3 - 4	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		1	Stressful because funding as an out of state student was somewhat contigent on finding an RA. 		No	Yes	Once a month	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely		No		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes		Rarely	Rarely	Good	No			Yes	3		
EE	Male	1 - 2	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		5	lack of funding  professors are too busy to afford more students	add more advisors  organize assembly for grad students and advisors looking for students	No	No									No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No		Yes		Rarely	Once a month	Poor	Yes			Yes	2		
CS	Male	1 - 2	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		2			Yes	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely		Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No		Sometimes		Rarely	Rarely	Fair	Yes			Yes	5		
EE	Female	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	No	No	I don't think students or professors should be forced into a rotation system.  The current system of allowing first year students to sit in on research meetings is quite adequate and fulfills the purpose of getting to know research and advisors in EECS.	2	I had secured an advisor early on but had to change in the middle of my PhD as the previous advisor ran out of funding on the project I was working on.  I was told to change topic or change advisor.	An orientation session on finding an advisor for first years given by senior graduate students (those that have passed Quals) should improve this process greatly.	No	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely	Advisors should get to know their students and their personalities outside of just the 1:1 weekly meetings.  Going for lunch once in a while together or a coffee to discuss research in a more relaxed environment can help the working relationship tremendously.	No		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	I come every day.	No	The environment is great.	Rarely	Rarely	Fair	Yes	Joint GSA events	"Lately, I have seen the number of regular topical seminars decreasing. It would be great to have some types of regular seminars return such as the IC Seminar."	No	2	Through mentorship	
CS	Male	1 - 2	PhD	Yes	No	No	"I'd rather arrange my projects informally with faculty.  Also, I appreciatde the freedom to focus on one large project for most of the year."	1	Minimal.	Maybe labs should have more of an open house once a semester that specifically invites new students in to hear about research.  Students would get a chance to share blurbs about their research with the new students at this time as well.	No	Yes	Twice a week	Just right	Yes		No	Yes	Once a month 		Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes		Rarely	Rarely	Poor	Yes		Department sponsored dinners with faculty and students!	Yes	2		
EE	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	No	No	"In theory it might be a good idea, but I very much doubt that in practice it would get much attention from either the faculty or (perhaps) grad students."	3			No	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Twice a week 		No		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	"I get much more done at home (quieter, my computer is better, etc.)"	Yes	"I like the office, but I prefer to work at home where I can concentrate better."	Rarely	Rarely	Poor	Yes			Yes	5		
CS	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		3	confusion on the process	"new students who take initiative to talk with current students do well. Others who don't seem confused. better information on the process, which seems like dating (flirting, playing games, and eventually sort of asking someone out)"	No opinion	Yes	Once a month	Not enough	Yes		No	Yes	Once a week 		No		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes		Rarely	Rarely	Poor	Yes			Yes	3		
EE	Female	1 - 2	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		3			No	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Once a week 		Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		No		Rarely	Once a month	Fair	Yes			Yes	3		
CS	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	No	No	"I'm not entirely sure what a 'rotation' system is, but I think the best way to get to know potential advisors is to take classes from them and attend research group meetings."	1	I had to be patient and wait till spring to take a class from my advisor-to-be.	"Perhaps a little more information for incoming students at to when the various research groups meet.  Maybe a schedule of the various research meetings for a given area (systems, theory, graphics, etc)"	No opinion	Yes	Once a month	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Twice a week 	"My relationship with my advisor has been pretty good over my 6 years here, though recently he has been around less and we haven't had group meetings this semester."	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes	I love my office.  Though it is at max capacity.  I would definitely *NOT* want to be in a larger office with more people (like the ones I hear about on the 4th floor).	Rarely	Rarely	Poor	No	I don't think it needs to be improved any more than math and cs.		Yes	4		The chairs in the offices are very old and *very* uncomfortable.  I would be more inclined to spend even more time in soda if I had a comfy place to sit.
CS	Male	3 - 4	PhD	Yes	No	No	"I don't think it's necessary for the department to set up an official _system_ -- I think it should be up to individual advisors and grad students to negotiate a rotation system among themselves.  If a system of rotations is set up, I think it should be purely voluntary.  Although some grad students could benefit from trying out different advisors and projects, some grad students already have a strong research interest and a short list of potential advisors.  A rotation system may be useful for grad students in more general subdisciplines like systems, but would be counterproductive for someone in, say, scientific computing."	2	"The only difficulty was an initial nervousness and a feeling that I needed to 'prove' myself to the potential advisor, but that was pretty much just in my head."		No	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Once a month 	"I'm happy with my working relationship with my advisor.  The only trouble is that he has a lot of paperwork to do and people to manage, so sometimes it takes a little longer to get a response from him."	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	I live 30 minutes' drive from campus and gasoline is expensive.	Sometimes	"Sometimes I find it distracting to be working at the same table with another person -- I would prefer to have something more like a cubicle arrangement, with semi-privacy and more noise reduction. "	Rarely	Once a month	Good	No	The most important thing is to give students a professional reason to collaborate by encouraging research partnerships.  Anything else would be artificial.	"I find it troublesome that the CS department seems to schedule high-profile conferences at the same time as important scientific computing events in the Bay area, such as Bay Area Scientific Computing Day.  I'm not sure if that happens for other disciplines, but to me it speaks of a kind of marginalization of our discipline, though that is being perhaps too judgmental."	No	3	Diversity in higher education starts in grade school.  It's pretty hard to correct at the post-secondary level trends that are nearly fixed by the time students are 16 years old.	
EE	Male	5 - 6	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		2			Yes	Yes	Once a week	Not enough	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely		No		No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		No		Rarely	Rarely	Fair	No			No	4	"I believe affirmative action is an unconstitutional assault on the equal protection clause.  We should admit the most qualified applicants, regardless of racial or gender considerations.    "	"I think that a significant portion of graduate students suffer from some type of depression.  Seriously, I'm not joking about that.  The department should do more to address mental health issues among students.    "
EE	Male	1 - 2	PhD	Yes	No	No	"I think it would be too much extra work for the professors, and that not very much would be accomplished during the rotations.  Lots of confusion, lots of bureaucracy, little gain == bad idea..."	3			No	Yes	Every other week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely		Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes		No	I like my office pretty well.	Daily	Rarely	Good	No	Build the CITRIS building.  What's up with it anyway?  It's been blocking traffic for a year without ANY visible progress.		Yes	3	"Why do you insist on measuring diversity by superficial characteristics like skin color.  I feel very marginalized being a white male, because there is no box for me to check which makes me 'diverse' or recognizes my uniqueness and contribution to diversity at Berkeley.  Even though I have many different viewpoints and life experiences than most in the department, certain kinds of diversity (skin color, gender, etc.) are considered 'more equal' than others, which I find very hypocritical.    I look forward to the demise of 'diversity', when as MLKJr. said, people can be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. "	
CS	Male	3 - 4	PhD	Yes	No	No	Students and faculty can work this out on their own if they find it beneficial in their particular cases.	1			No	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		No	Yes	Once a week 		Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes		Sometimes	I like my office; plenty of space and sunlight. :-)	Rarely	Rarely	Poor	Yes	"The grouping of these two divisions into a department seems pretty arbitrary to me.  I feel a closer kinship to the math department than the EE division.  This isn't really a suggestion, just a musing on why improved interaction between EE and CS is particularly important, outside of arbitrary organizational structure."	"The department is doing well by avoiding any purposeful programs that try to micro-manage these kinds of interactions.  I'm sure that many admitted students are turned away by the do-it-yourself kind of atmosphere we have here, but I also think that atmosphere is a big part of what makes Berkeley great. :-)"	Yes	2	"I don't think this is a problem that should be solved at the graduate level.  Assuming admissions are performed fairly, we should rely on affirmative action measures, etc., applied at lower educational levels."	"The rules for deciding when the GSI requirement is satisfied are ridiculous.  If you are signed up as the only GSI for a class and not enough students enroll to meet the minimum for a 50% GSI, but you end up having to do an almost 50%-time amount of work anyway because there must be two discussion sections, the Powers That Be deem that your GSI requirement isn't done yet.    And we have to take too many classes! :-)"
CS	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	No	No	"A rotation system could be useful if an incoming student doesn't know what area they want to go into (or they're not sure).  Many students come to grad school knowing the specialized research they wish to do, and for them, it would be a waste of time."	2	I had to choose between two advisors.		No	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely	I'm happy with my relationship with my advisor.	No		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		No	I like my office environment- it's relatively quiet and my officemates are knowledgable.	Rarely	Rarely	Fair	Yes	More social events?	The semesterly student review is very useful to step back from research and confirm that the student is making progress toward the degree.	Yes	2		
EE	Male	1 - 2	PhD	Yes	No	No	"If you come to grad school knowing what type of research you want to pursue, why would you want a rotation? We have a breadth requirement, that's enough for me. "	2	"Didn't know how to start.  In addition, breaking the ice is not fun.  I felt uncomfortable starting the process. Its like 'Hi, I'm a new grad student, will you pay for me for the next 5 years?'"	Not sure.	Yes	Yes	Twice a week	Just right	No	"It has to be related to what his goals are. I think that's fair though. I knew what research he did before joining his group, so I didn't expect to do something out in left field. "	Yes	Yes	Rarely	My advisor is awesome. I don't see much room for improvement. 	No		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes	Cory Hall needs a shower facility. It would be even better if it was in the DOP center. 	Rarely	Daily	Poor	Yes	Both sides need to stop having chips on their shoulders.  		Yes	2	What do you mean by diversity? I feel like I'm in China.  	"The question at the beginning of this survey about the prelim exam, if you haven't taken it, you shouldn't have to answer it. When I tried to not answer the question, it complained and made me answer it.     "
EE	Male	3 - 4	PhD	No	Yes	Yes	"In fact, i think that is an excellent idea.  it will require more involvement from senior grad students & faculty, but would be good for all."	2	i had my advisor right when i came in.  in retrospect i wish i had a chance to try other options.  i might have ended up in a different area of research.	"the first year is very hard and utterly frustrating.  faculty are busy & it is difficult to get real research advice.  i felt like i squandered a lot of time just figuring out the system.  nobody introduced me to anybody & i had no way of meeting professors outside of classes.  it was hard enough to set up a computer account, let alone navigate all the bureaucracy.    need:   *better orientation  *more faculty office hours  *more interaction with other students: i.e. a mandatory seminar class or something.    *a better way to meet senior grad students & learn about their research: i.e. a seminar class about student research."	No	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes	"at first i got very very little help or advice.  now that my research has taken shape-- because i struggled for 2 years to define the project -- things are going smoothly.  all told, i think this is was a good thing.  research is no cake walk.  advisors can't give you all the answers.  for some people a very active advisor is good, but the best people don't need that much advice.  its how you learn to eventually *be* an advisor."	No	Yes	Rarely	"it would be good to have weekly group meetings.  i will try to do this if i am ever a professor.    however, my advisor doesn't do this... at all.  it would have been good for me in my first couple of years to help learn about other students' research.  its definitely good to have weekly group meetings where one student leads the meeting.    ***i think a department wide retreat (maybe separate for EE & CS) would be great!  this kind of interaction is badly needed.  we hardly ever interact outside of our own groups."	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		No	"some of the offices are in disrepair!  why is the BWRC and other office space so nice, but some of us sit in the ghetto of the third floor.  our space sucks.  it rarely ever gets cleaned.   --> the floor has only been cleaned twice since i've been here (3 years).  what's up with that?"	Rarely	Rarely	Poor	No	"from my perspective, why do we necesarily have anything in common?    why don't we have a BBQ between EE & ME?  or EE & CE.  i think we need more general unity, not just unity between EE & CS."	it totally varies by professor & student.    I think a department wide retreat would be a very good idea.  every lab has to give 1 or 2 talks. (i know that would be a lot of talks.)  the entering students would benefit a lot!    maybe a retreat every fall (oct?).  all entering students & faculty go.  Senior grad students go to give talks.  lets do it!	Yes	3	obviously we're not diverse in many ways.  it would be great to get more women & U-minorities.  unfortunately the only way to do so is to get them to apply!  we therefore need to affect broader change at the national level.  the best way to focus on this problem is with our own undergraduates: admit & encourage women & minorities.  get them to apply to our (and other's) graduate programs.  hopefully other institutions will do the same.	we also tend to neglect liberal arts colleges in our application process.  this causes us to throw away a lot of smart people (its way harder to get into Amherst than to Berkeley!). we should be open to admitting people who don't have a specific EECS background but who are smart & have done well in physics.  I propose a 3-2 exchange program between Berkeley and Amherst/Swathmore/Williams/Dartmouth/Colby/Bates/Bowdoin/ etc....    Why not?  we could get some great students that way!  many schools do such a thing.
CS	Male	5 - 6	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		3	establishing contact	have more faculty lunches with new students where faculty also 'shop'	No	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		No	Do not know	Rarely		No		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes		Rarely	Rarely	Poor	Yes			Yes	3		
CS	Male	5 - 6	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		2	no forums to really meet other professors even in own field of study except by taking a class from them	grad student/prof parties?  but you have to make the professors come somehow...	No	Yes	Once a week	Not enough	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		No	It was good.  Now we are being displaced for the 'RAD' lab.	Rarely	Rarely	Poor	No	joint poster sessions maybe?	"if nobody works in soda anymore, there cannot be any interactions between people who are not here."	Yes	2	"the department needs to recruit more fun, social people"	
EE	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	No	No	"rotation is too formal, maybe it's better to have the faculty engage more actively with the incoming students. the system of having all the new grad in a common office may not be very ideal, it seems to reduce the amount of interaction with the senior grad students."	1			No opinion	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Once a week 		No		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes		Once a month	Once a week	Fair	No			Yes	2		
EE	Female	3 - 4	PhD	No	No	Yes	"3-4 projects on top of first year course work is too big of a work load for first year students.  they are adapting to a new environment and are learning new materials (for prelim for instance).  it's hard to solve an interesting research problem at the same time, let alone 3-4.  it's probably much easier if the professors can present the projects that they are looking for students to work on, and the students only need to choose 1 (at most 2) project of interest."	5	"in my year, there were many people in my area (DSP/Comm) and a lot of professors already had too many students.  the number of professors in DSP is especially low."	either admit fewer students or hire more faculty.	Yes	Yes	Twice a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Twice a week 		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		No		Rarely	Rarely	Poor	Yes			Yes	3		
CS	Male	3 - 4	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		2	"As a first-year student, it can be itimidating to establish initial contact with such well-respected professors, especially if there has not been any structured meeting (e.g., a class)."	"I like the idea of rotations in one's first year.  The current set up with project classes is similar, but there is no structure if a professor you might want to work with is not teaching a graduate class."	No opinion	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		No	Yes	Once a week 		Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes	"I feel the building could be better arranged to stimulate 'hallway conversations'.  While the alcoves are common areas, it's not enough space.  Often they're used for office hours or by undergraduates.  Perhaps whiteboards and couches along the side of the wide center hallway (on the fifth floor) could help."	Rarely	Rarely	Fair	Yes	I think a common social hour and GSA organization could help.		Yes	4		
EE	Female	1 - 2	MS	No	Yes	Yes		No advisor yet	Not knowing exactly how to go about it at first.  It was very difficult to estblish initial contact.	The temporary advisor should be required to help the student establish initial contact with the advisor of interest.  	Yes	No									Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No			No		Rarely	Rarely	Fair	No			No	2		
EE	Male	1 - 2	PhD	Yes	No	No	"Having come into the department with a Masters degree from another university, I already knew the type of research in which I was interested.  A rotation system would have been a waste of time."	1			No opinion	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely		No		No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes	"More space is always helpful.  The chairs in this office do not have height adjustment, making it uncomfortable to work at my desk at times."	Rarely	Rarely	Fair	Yes			Yes	5		
EE	Male	3 - 4	PhD	Yes	No	No	There is too much variety in the department for a rotation system to make sense. Incoming students usually have 2-3 faculty in mind. Perhaps some limited system of rotation would be useful among those 2-3 groups.	1			Yes	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Once a week 		No		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes		Rarely	Once a month	Fair	Yes			Yes	4		
CS	Female	1 - 2	PhD	Yes	No	No	I don't think faculty would have time to 'engage' meaningfully in these mini-projects.  Requiring this rotation scheme would also waste time of students who find advisors before the end of their first year.	1	None		No opinion	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		No	Do not know	Once a week 		Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	"I only came into my first year office a few times a week because it was too cold.  (I told the people at the front desk, but they could not fix the temperature.)"	No	I have moved to my permanent office and there are no problems.	Rarely	Once a week	Poor	No	Encourage CS students to take EE classes and vice versa		Yes	2	More female faculty members	
CS	Male	3 - 4	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		3			No opinion	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely		Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		No		Rarely	Rarely	Fair	Yes			No	4		
EE	Male	5 - 6	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		1	Not really knowing what was available and what the expectations were for grad school.	I like the idea of the rotation system. An official mentoring program between younger and older graduate students would be a potential improvement also.	Yes	Yes	Rarely	Not enough	Yes		No	No	Once a month 	He needs to be on campus more frequently and more regularly. 	No		Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes		No	Love the office space.	Once a month	Rarely	Good	Yes	Give EE students card key access to Soda Hall		Yes	1	Reverse 209  Recruit at undergraduate institutions with diversity  (HBCUs for example)  EDUCATE the faculty and students about these issues	
EE	Male	3 - 4	PhD	Yes	Yes	No	Too much overhead for research groups	3	Establishing initial contact	Have advisors initiate contact with students	No	Yes	Rarely	Just right	Yes		No	Yes	Rarely	Smaller research group	No		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes	Mostly enjoy arrangement	Rarely	Rarely	Poor	Yes	Give EE students access to Soda		Yes	1	Start counting foreign women as women	Departmental supplement policies for resident GSIs should be more clearly defined and implemented
EE	Male	3 - 4	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		3			No opinion	Yes	Once a month	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely		No		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes		Rarely	Rarely	Poor	No			Yes	3		
EE	Female	3 - 4	PhD	No	Yes	Yes																																		
CS	Male	7+	PhD	No	Yes	Yes																																		
EE	Male	1 - 2	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		No advisor yet	"Hard to know where to start, also did not want to tie myself down to an advisor before I was sure what my plans are (future research interests, whether I want a PhD, etc)"	My temporary advisor has absolutely nothing to do with my interests; more careful matchmaking in the temporary advisor assignments would probably have been helpful in securing a temporary advisor who could be more useful in helping me with/advising me on finding a research advisor.	Yes	No									No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	I'm not aware that I have even been assigned an office	No	"If I had any office at all, that might be a step in the right direction"	Daily	Rarely	Fair	No	"An end to the beaurocratic barriers for EE students who wish to work in CS/vice-versa would probably be a good start.  If the desire is for the divisions to be unified, acting as if they're actually one department would be a logical first step."	The first year here has seemed totally unstructured to me.  Any kind of a framework for figuring out what we should be doing here past the last day of orientation would be great.	Yes	2	This is not a pressing concern to me.	
CS	Male	3 - 4	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		3	"At the beginning of my first year (and when I was deciding which grad school to go to), there were about 4 advisors that looked like strong possibilities to me.  However after I looked and thought about these in more depth (and worked with one) it seemed to me that none of those was a good match.  I ended up working with another professor beginning late in my first year; happily it's worked out well."	"I think it would help if the 1st year students were introduced to the faculty who are potentially looking for advisors, perhaps by them giving one talk each talk about their recent/current research near the beginning of the first semster."	Yes	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Once a week 	"My answer to question #21 ('How often do you interact with faculty outside the context of advising, teaching, or pursuing a specific research project?') was once a week.  That refers to one weekly meeting usually involving my advisor and one other faculty member.  The meeting is a lunch meeting at which someone gives a research talk.    That's good, but there is virtually no interaction that is more 'social' in nature (or more technically, less structured -- the topics of conversation still might end up revolving around research).    Relatedly, but less on the topic of advisors, I have very little interaction with faculty outside of my advisor and one professor whose research is in a similar area.  I don't feel like there's much of a forum for building a community."	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No			No	"Currently, I am in an office with people with whom I don't work on common projects.  I do discuss research problems with other grad students in _nearby_ offices, and their comments are helpful.  This is okay, but I expect the situation to improve with the introduction of the RadLab next fall.  In general, I think mixing students and faculty together, and more mixing among grad students, is good."	Once a month	Rarely	Poor	Yes	"It might be good to begin by improving interaction and community within the CS division first. :-)  More interaction between EE and CS would be great, but it might be more difficult due to the large total number of people."	"If I had to sum it up in one word, it would be segregation.  (1) I enjoyed my first-year office more, with more people and more interaction, compared with my current office.  (2) Segregation of grad students by area, and professors from grad students, is something that I am guessing is suboptimal.  It's hard to know what we're missing, though, if anything.  There's nothing bad that I can specifically blame on this kind of segregation.  (3) I think it would help if there were more of a sense of community and more interaction between people across research areas.    The RadLab model should help (1) and part of (2).  For the rest of (2) and (3), an idea would be to have some general common area in Soda Hall where people would enjoy going to work or hang out or drink coffee.   (Maybe this exists but is on Euclid Ave. :-) )  Right now when you enter Soda it looks rather cold and deserted.  I think it would have been better architected if there were an atrium when you enter that would serve as an attractive common area."	Yes	4		
EE	Male	1 - 2	PhD	Yes	No	No		3			No	Yes	Once a month	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely		No		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		No		Rarely	Once a week	Poor	Yes			No	2		
EE	Male	1 - 2	MS	Yes	Yes	Yes		3	I didn't face too muich problem searching for an advisor though this is probably due to the fact that financially I'm being taken care by the department for the beginning years.		No opinion	Yes	Every other week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Twice a week 		No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		No		Rarely	Rarely	Poor	Yes	"The fact that classes are being taught in 2 seperate buildings literally limits the opportunity of meeting up with folks from the 'other side' of EECS. While logistically challenging, it could be beneficial to have some classes mixed up in terms of their location (in Cory of Soda). Also, if some courses could be cross-listed between EE and CS, that will be great. There's definitely alot to benefit from interaction between EE and CS, and compared to my undergrad institute (which also houses both EE and CS), the interaction here pales in comparison.  "		Yes	3		"I personally feel that Berkeley has got great research, but lacks an entrepreneur spirit that could rival say, Stanford. The department could also use some publicity events located in 'central campus', to showcase all the cool stuff that's happening in the department. I can't help but feel a big disconnect between EECS and the other parts of the university (given that our buildings are also tucked to a corner of campus)."
EE	Female	5 - 6	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		2			Yes	Yes	Once a week	Not enough	Yes		No	Yes	Every other week 		No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes		Rarely	Rarely	Fair	Yes			Yes	3		
EE	Male	3 - 4	PhD	No	No	No	"It's not for everyone -- what is needed is more of a peer advising system.  Most first years don't talk to their temporary advisors more than 1-2 times a semester.  There are a number of reasons for this:     - when you're doing the 'mating dance' of trying to find an advisor, it's hard to get real advice from your temporary advisor since you know they'll talk to other profs in your area     - faculty are already busy advising their own students and temporary advisees are like undergraduate advisees (btw, I think the undergrad advising system needs a lot of work also -- VERY uneven)     - first year is really busy for a lot of people.  The prelim is also a scary proposition.    If there was a kind of mentoring system set up then first years could get advice on how to find an advisor, etc.  What is NOT good is to have formal panels or events of that kind -- it's not conducive to actually getting students acclimated into the department.    Another reason rotations are bad is that some research areas are not conducive to a rotation structure.  That is, there is very little busy work in, for example, CS theory."	4	"All of the above?    Since all profs have different working styles, it is hard to get a feel for how much you have to 'prove yourself' in order to get them to sign you on.  Many profs are sort of passive in this way -- YOU have to ask THEM to advise you.  Trying to get the faculty to be a little more aggresive or having them 'pop the question' may be a good idea."	See points [9] and [11].	Yes	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		No	No	Twice a week 		No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes	I don't have organized thoughts on this at the moment.	Once a week	Once a month	Poor	Yes	The two GSAs are VERY different.	"Students with advisors are highly isolated from first years, especially physically.  The weekly social is more of a weakly social in some respects.  Bar nights are ok, but many people don't drink at all.  It's hard to really come up with concrete solutions.    For student/faculty interactions, I have no idea except to maybe try and do it through their currently advised students."	No	2	"I think retention might be more of a problem than admissions -- the admit group in my area at least is reasonably (compared to the norm) diverse, but then many people from underrepresented groups leave after an MS. "	
EE	Male	7+	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		3	"Not sure who's a right match in terms of personality, style, and research focus."	Older grad student could have helped in giving confidential advice.	No	Yes	Once a week	Not enough	Yes		Yes	No	Rarely	Have professors be more specific of what they expect of students.  This can take anxiety away from weekly meetings.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	"I have everything I need at home to do work, so why come?  However, I think coming in regularly would have helped productivity although the office does get very noisy.  Some officemates like to chat too much."	Sometimes	Offices are in general too messy.  Trash accumulate over genrations of pervious occupants.  	Once a week	Once a week	Fair	Yes	Encourage people to listen to talks of each others.  EE & CS are like 2 languages.  People rarely understand both.  People on each side do not appreciate the importane of the existence of the others.	"In some schools, professors attend weekly student seminars who present their results even though the professors are not the advisors of those students.    "	Yes	4		Peer support is very important.  How about monthly group lunch with a few other grad students randomly chosen by a computer? :-)
CS	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		1	Not knowing the right questions to ask.	Advising students on picking an advisor.	Yes	Yes	Rarely	Not enough	Yes		No	Yes	Rarely	Weekly meetings would be helpful.	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		No		Rarely	Rarely	Poor	No		More emphasis on helping grad students towards graduation.	Yes	2		
EE	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	No	No	It would simply waste time.	1	None really. I chose my temp. advisor and it was a great choice.	pair the newly admitted grads with the right professors from the begining.	No	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Twice a week 		No		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		No		Rarely	Rarely	Poor	Yes	build a teleportation conduit between Cory and Soda.		No	5		
EE	Male	1 - 2	PhD	Yes	No	Yes		4	it was competitive to find one	more faculty	Yes	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Every other week 		No		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		No		Rarely	Rarely	Fair	Yes			Yes	4		
CS	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		1			No	Yes	Once a week	Not enough	Yes		Yes	Yes	Every other week 		No		No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		No		Rarely	Rarely	Poor	Yes		"The biggest problem is that faculty sit in an ivory tower. They occupy floors 6-7 and students occupy floors 4-5.    Examples of other depts which do it differently: Stanford, Wisconsin and MIT. There, faculty and students of a particular research area have offices next to each other in "	No	1		
EE	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		4	not knowing exactly how to start		Yes	Yes	Once a month	Not enough	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely		No		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes		Rarely	Rarely	Fair	Yes			Yes	5		
EE	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes	I think it will be beneficial for both students and faculties. 	4			No opinion	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Twice a week 		No		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes		Once a month	Rarely	Fair	Yes	Having a combined social (once a month?) can be beneficial. An annual BBQ seems infrequent and I don't think it will help build a sense of community. 		No	3		
CS	Female	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	No	No	First year student are usually too busy to get the benefits of rotation.  Rotation is usually for labs. Doing research in computer science takes longer time. It might be hard to get benefits of rotation in a short term period. 	3	Advisors do not have enough funding. 		Yes	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Live far away from the school	No		Rarely	Rarely	Fair	Yes			Yes	5		
EE	Male	3 - 4	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		1	"Establishing intial contact with professors, choosing a research area, choosing a research project"		No	Yes	Every other week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Once a month 		No		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		No	We have a very good office environment.	Rarely	Once a week	Fair	No			Yes	2		
CS	Male	3 - 4	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		3	"both not knowing exactly how to start, and establishing initial contact were difficulties. also not knowing what I had to prepare or know to approach a potential advisor made it easy to put off finding an advisor."		Yes	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		No	Do not know	Every other week 		Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	"It is convenient to work from home, and often coffee shops are nice to work from."	No	"I don't think the offices get cleaned much. The first office I was in seems like it has not been cleaned in years. My second office is more picked up but still dirty. Especially in shared offices, many students don't take the initiative to clean. Even if it is too expensive to have the surfaces professionally cleaned regularly, it would be nice to have a more proactive policy about cleaning. Like an office cleaning day or something."	Once a month	Once a week	Fair	No	shared common spaces.		Yes	2		
EE	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		4	"Yeah, all of it."		No opinion	Yes	Every other week	Just right	Yes		Yes	No	Once a month 		No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Too busy browsing for porn at home.	Yes	  More beer.	Rarely	Rarely	Poor	No	put the damn CS undergrads back in Soda where they belong.		No	1	who needs diversity?  grad school is all about natural selection.	
EE	Female	3 - 4	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		2	Difficulties in knowing what field... ended up trying to go to several group meetings.	More availability of profs.  Ask more grad students advice!	Yes	Yes	Once a week	Just right	No	Too many projects already... pursuing yet anothe project takes away from the others.	Yes	Yes	Rarely		Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes	"I love having lots of grad students around.  However, one or two annoying grad students make it unbearable (because specific grad students are loud and annoying and complain way too often)."	Rarely	Once a week	Poor	Yes			No	2		
CS	Male	1 - 2	PhD	Yes	No	No	Students can do small projects with profs if they wish and have the drive.  	2	Was unsure how to start.	Peer mentorship	No opinion	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		No	Do not know	Every other week 		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		No	It's only rarely too noisy for me.  I like the interaction.	Rarely	Rarely	Poor	Yes	Get networking people to talk to each other.  Joint social hour.  		Yes	3		
EE	Male	3 - 4	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		1			No opinion	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Once a month 		No		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes		Rarely	Rarely	Poor	No			No	3	
EE	Male	3 - 4	PhD	No	No	Yes	"On the theoretical side, it takes so long to get into an interesting research problem that I can't see how short rotations would be beneficial.    On the other hand, anything that would increase contact between first-years and professors would probably be a good thing."	5	"Instead of explicitly turning me down, one professor would just schedule other people during our arranged meeting times so I would show up and he would be busy.  He'd promise to email me an not follow through.    It's not clear what professors are looking for in potential students.    There were way too many students my year and not enough advisors to go around.    "	Not overadmitting by such a wide margin.	No	Yes	Every other week	Just right	Yes		No	Do not know	Once a week 		No		Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes		Sometimes	Very happy.	Rarely	Rarely	Fair	Yes	"I'd much rather improve interaction between EECS and, say, the law school, or the business school."	Workload simply doesn't leave enough time for social life and maintaining mental health.	Yes	1	Increasing interaction with other departments (like law or business).
CS	Male	3 - 4	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		4	Not really know what the advisors are working on. I also had some personal issues I was dealing with.		No	Yes	Every other week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Once a month 		No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		No	i love it!	Rarely	Daily	Poor	No	"Why don't the EEGSA and CSGSA throw joint socials?     and the professors here are all caught up in their own work. I see little collaboration even within fields. If professors want to really foster interaction, than they'll have to start interacting themselves. There is some interaction among the students, but it's generally self motivated bottom up."		Yes	3	
EE	Female	5 - 6	PhD	No	Yes	Yes																																	
CS	Male	3 - 4	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		3	"It was hard for me to approach a faculty member out of the blue and say 'I'm interested in working with you'.  It seemed like taking a class from a professor was the only way to naturally get to know them a bit, and even then it was hard for me since I'm normally one who learns pretty independently without a lot of interaction with the professor (and impossible for faculty not teaching at the time).  I also got the impression that I was really only supposed to be 'courting' one potential advisor, which would have made it hard if it hadn't worked out.  (Though it ended up fine for me in the end.)"	It might be helpful if there were a more formalized process for introducing students and faculty in the context of advisor-student pairings.  Maybe even some sort of 'advisor fair' where all the faculty with student openings would show up and the new grad students could chat with them for a bit.	No opinion	Yes	Rarely	Not enough	Yes		No	Yes	Rarely	"It's hard with my advisor because he's very senior and therefore extremely busy and often traveling.  It would be very beneficial for me to have more regular meetings with him, though I don't know how possible that is."	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No			No	"My office is very nice and quiet, which I am thankful for.  I would be distracted too much if my office mates were more noisy/social."	Once a month	Rarely	Fair	Yes			Yes	3	
EE	Male	5 - 6	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		1			Yes	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Do not know	Rarely		No		No	No	Yes	No			No		Rarely	Rarely	Fair	Yes			Yes	2	
CS	Do not wish to answer	3 - 4	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		1			Yes	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Once a week 		Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes		Rarely	Once a month	Fair	Yes	have more cross-over courses/seminars		Yes	4	
CS	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		3	"If you want to work with people outside the department especially in interdisciplinary areas like computational biology, you have to get through a lot of red tape."		No opinion	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		No	Yes	Rarely		Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		No		Rarely	Rarely	Fair	No			Yes	2	
EE	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		3	My research interests were unclear	Professors should encourage new graduate students to participate in their research group meetings and conduct personal interviews to streamline research interests.  	Yes	Yes	Once a month	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely		No		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes		Once a week	Once a week	Good	Yes			Yes	3	
CS	Male	1 - 2	PhD	Yes	No	No		5			Yes	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		No	Yes	Rarely		Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No			Sometimes		Rarely	Rarely	Poor	Yes			No	4	
EE	Male	3 - 4	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		1			Yes	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Do not know	Once a week 		Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes	"I doubt it, I think I have one of the best office in Cory. However it's a shared room, and as such it's noisy sometimes. Obvously having each one its own room would be better, but I do not think it's a real option."	Once a week	Rarely	Poor	No	"Shared grants. The problem is not much between EE and CS students, but mostly between EE and CS faculty."	Interactions between senior and junior grads is essential. That's the best advising you can get when you come here. Make it institutional.	Yes	4	
EE	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		1			Yes	Yes																											
CS	Male	3 - 4	PhD	Yes	No	No																																	
EE	Female	5 - 6	PhD	No	Yes	Yes	"I think rotations would be beneficial, but only for those who chose them - it shouldn't be forced on the entire first year population.  The best part about it is that you would be joining a group without the professor assuming that you'll be staying there for the next 5 years and there are no hurt feelings if you leave (ideally)."	3	"It's a little awkward to start the process, but not too bad.  I didn't get much out of the original guy I wanted to work for, so I switched after a couple months.  Felt pretty bad about it though. "	Having a research fair would be interesting where groups looking for new graduate students could present your research.  An online thing where advisors with money could post projects or advisors without money could present ideas for students coming in with money.  The money issue makes things substantially more complicated and being up front on this really helps.	No	Yes	Rarely	Just right	Yes	"Well, mostly - he definitely has ideas as to what are the right and wrong paths, but you can usually finagle your way around this."	Yes	Yes	Rarely	"One on one meetings are a double edged sword, but I think they definitely help some people."	No		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes	I actually like my working environment.	Rarely	Once a month	Fair	No	I'm not sure it's terribly necessary.		Yes	3	Recruiting!
EE	Male	7+	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		2			No opinion	Yes	Twice a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Once a month 		No		Yes	No	Yes														
CS	Female	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes																																	
EE	Male	1 - 2	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		3			Yes	Yes	Once a month	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely																					
EE	Male	5 - 6	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		1			Yes	Yes	Once a month	Just right	Yes		No	Yes	Rarely		No		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		No		Rarely	Rarely	Fair	Yes						
EE	Male	1 - 2	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes																																		
CS	Male	3 - 4	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		3	Not many professors were looking for students  in areas I was interested in - systems and architecture.	Involve first years with senior graduate students in joint projects.	Yes	Yes	Rarely	Not enough	Yes		Yes	Yes	Once a month 	More regular meetings.	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	I work at a different place than Soda.	No	Arrangements are fine.  Although there is little interaction as  everybody is in their own offices.	Rarely	Once a month	Fair	Yes		"More regular events where both faculty and  students are invited - now, there are no such events.  More useful classes should be offered."	Yes	2	"Nationalities are well represented, but not  minorities and women."	Better classes.
EE	Female	5 - 6	PhD	No	Yes	Yes		3	"Funding, Research Interests, Room for more students."	A rotation will help to identify more efficiently faculty in one's field of interest with potential fundings	No opinion	Yes	Once a week	Just right	No	It depends on funding source	Yes	Yes	Twice a week 		Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes		Rarely	Once a week	Poor	Yes	More social blend activities		Yes	1	"Agressively recruit more female, minorities graduate students or faculty"	
EE	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	Yes	Yes		1			No	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Rarely		No		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		Sometimes		Rarely	Rarely	Poor	No			Yes	4		
EE	Male	5 - 6	PhD	Yes	No	Yes		3			No	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		No	No	Every other week 		No		No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	"My research is mostly individual (people in my group work on different projects), and I feel that I am more productive at home."	Sometimes		Rarely	Rarely	Fair	Yes			Yes	3		
EE	Male	3 - 4	PhD	No	No	No	"Too much work to require students to engage in an additional mini-project.  Some first year students are trying to catch up to their peers in terms of preparation on fundamental background materials (ie EE226A, EE221A), some have to TA for money, and requiring a project on top of this is an additional burden.    Also, unlike bioengineering, the disciplines in EECS are very well established.  Hopefully, grad students have a fairly good idea of which of the disciplines they want to work in, or know to seek advice of professors/other grad students if they are exploring other areas."	5	Establishing initial contact... professors being too busy.    Finding the right fit in terms of research direction and group environment.    How to get an idea of the group environment.	"More advice/support to graduate students on what to look for in a good match.  There are web pages online for this, but some may not know where to look... perhaps should link from EEGSA website and advertise this heavily?    Also, an EEGSA 'how to find an advisor' informal peer advising session may be useful.  I don't find the grad community as cohesive as the undergrad community here (not as many people at the EECS grad social hour who are seeking to meet other people they don't know in the department), so its harder to get peer advice."	No	Yes	Rarely	Not enough	Yes		Yes	Do not know	Rarely	"He's too busy, so its not his fault.  I joined the group knowing this factor."	No		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		No	"I like the folks around me, so I'm happy."	Once a week	Once a month	Fair	Yes	More joint social events.	"Due to architecture of building, graduate students in different areas do not interact very much with each other.  We can come in and leave the building without ever seeing each other for a month.    In fact, I don't think I even know who all the graduate students in our department are.  Maybe its not that important... we usually interact with people within our research area.    On the other hand, sometimes I see people repeatedly in the hallway/bathrooms, and don't feel appropriate introducing myself to them, because I've never made 'initial contact'.  I guess I'm not very socially outgoing, but perhaps there's ways to generate interaction."	No	2	Admit more women.	
EE	Female	1 - 2	PhD	Yes	No	No	"Such a system would require students to work in areas they may not have any interest in.  They should be free to pursue circumstances they find favorable themselves, with the flexibility of starting new collaborations or ending others when they will."	1	I think most of the difficulties come in financially.  I know many students who have had a hard time finding advisors who wanted to support them if they did not have outside funding.  The pressure was rather heavy on those students. 	"Assure each student of funding, and further the professors too."	Yes	Yes	Once a week	Just right	Yes		Yes	Yes	Twice a week 		Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes		No	"I like my office a lot, though it is exceptional for a first year.  I work at LBL, share an office with three others, but our desks are separated by cubi