New Dual Degree Honors Program at The University of Texas at Austin Combines Business, Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Newswise — Austin, Texas- The University of Texas at Austin will offer a new integrated business and engineering honors degree program. The rigorous four-year undergraduate curriculum in the Cockrell School of Engineering and the McCombs School of Business will prepare students for competitive engineering leadership careers.

The Texas Honors Electrical and Computer Engineering and Business degree (Texas ECB) combines two of UT Austin’s most highly regarded programs in a more efficient format than a traditional double major. The two top-five ranked programs, the Cockrell School’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and McCombs School’s Canfield Business Honors Program (CBHP) are highly ranked both nationally and internationally.

“Business and electrical and computer engineering students like to solve important problems and, in today’s world, very few problems are more challenging than those faced by businesses in which computers and information technology are key,” said Andres Almazan, Canfield BHP faculty director at the McCombs School of Business. Continue reading

Talking Optionality with Phil Canfield at Lyceum

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Ben Camacho and Phil Canfield at Lyceum

“Optionality.” This term is one that Phil Canfield advises students to keep in mind when pursuing a career in business. Canfield recently spoke to the sophomore Business Honors students in their Lyceum class. Canfield, who spent 28 years at the Chicago-based private equity firm GTCR and is now managing his own firm called Ariet Capital, explains how important it is to have “multiple paths,” whether it be in an interview, an investment, or a career.

For Phil Canfield, business had always been a career path he was destined for, even before he attended the University of Texas and studied in the Business Honors Program. “I was just drawn to the idea of how you bring people together to try to accomplish something.”

After studying in the Business Honors Program at UT, Canfield pursued a career in private equity with the firm GTCR. Canfield also attained his MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. According to Canfield, his undergraduate degree from the Business Honors Program and his MBA from Booth put him in a secure position and afforded him the “optionality” that he so values.

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Internship Spotlight: Zoe Chetty at Reynolds American

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Zoe Chetty

Topics of Interest: Internships, data analysis, MIS, strategic planning, insights, sales, marketing, Reynolds American

As our students work their way through various internships and career choices, several life lessons are learned in just a few weeks. Lessons like the power of networking and good work ethics are a few things you pick up along the way. Sometimes it’s simply applying what you learned in class on a major work project and realizing that you were wise to pay attention! But likely the most important thing students learn is that it’s totally okay to ask questions. In fact, asking questions is more than okay, it’s necessary! Whatever internship you work, just know that asking questions is always acceptable. After all, knowledge is power.

Take Canfield BHPer Zoe Chetty, for example. Zoe is a sophomore who previously attended a McCombs Career expo shortly before deciding to embark on a journey outside her comfort zone. There she found a great internship opportunity at Reynolds American as a Strategic Planning and Insights Intern – a position that emphasizes numerical and analytical skills, something Zoe was hesitant about. After experiencing first hand what working as an SP&I Intern entailed, she found that she actually liked working with numbers, setting her on a path toward her future career. 

Zoe shares her experience both finding and working an internship and provides great insights about the process. Read more about Zoe and her time as an SP&I Intern at Reynolds American below!

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Internship Spotlight: Arun Eswara at the National Security Agency

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Arun Eswara

Topics of Interest: Cybersecurity internships, Texas CSB, working within the National Security Agency, technology, programming, music apps

There’s a reason we say “What starts here changes the world” here at UT. Truly, anything big or small that starts here tends to have a major impact on the world. Take UT’s recent breakthrough research on the COVID vaccines as an example. Our students come here because they understand their time on the Forty Acres and Canfield BHP not only provides them with lifelong experiences, but with the opportunity to change the world. Within Canfield BHP, students experience a collaborative environment where they can work together to create the next big idea, incorporate the next market-disrupting start-up, develop a better production-boosting app, or establish the next world-saving NGO. Whatever the challenge, our tech-driven movers and shakers at the Texas Honors Computer Science and Business (Texas CSB) program are always up to the task, and that’s why they’re here –  to change the world.

We recently caught up with Canfield BHP/Texas CSBer, Arun Eswara. He shared some interesting tidbits about his role as a Cybersecurity Intern at the NSA and talked to us about his latest project, which he co-developed, called LyricLearner, a music app that “chooses a random word to start, decides the next word based on a weighted probability of all words that have followed the first, and continues building forward” and computes average album sentiments, comparing those values over time. 

Read on to learn more about Arun, his time interning at the NSA, and his latest project, LyricLearner.

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Canfield Business Honors Welcomes Three New Team Members

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We’re pleased to announce the addition of three new team members to the Canfield BHP staff! Hannah Johnson, Catherine Campbell, and Sahil Maherali have joined the Canfield BHP team and will be filling important roles to support the program’s goals and objectives. All three team members come to us with extensive experience in their fields and we’re incredibly ecstatic to have them on board. Please join us in welcoming them to the team!

Read on to learn more about Hannah, Catherine, and Sahil.

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