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Welcome to the Smith
Undergraduate Fellows
Program!
The
Smith Undergraduate
Fellows Program is an
innovative concept in
undergraduate business
education, offering a
series of special
academic programs—or
tracks—which will create
small communities of
scholars within the
larger Smith School
community. Beginning
with the launch of the
Freshman Fellows Program
in Fall 2006, each
specialized Fellows
program combines
opportunities for action
learning and
professional development
with rigorous in-depth
academic coursework
focused on cutting edge
issues affecting 21st
century business.
Co-curricular
activities—extras that
support what you are
learning in the
classroom—are a key
component of the Fellows
program. Field trips
and internships,
international study
trips and exchanges,
speaker series, dinners,
retreats and
competitions will foster
leadership skills and
contribute to your
personal and
professional growth.
Alumni involvement is an
important aspect of
Fellows programming,
with Smith alumni and
corporate partners
contributing their time,
talents and experience
through sponsorship and
participation in events
and activities.
Freshman Fellows
The
Freshman Fellows track
will provide enriched
opportunities for all of
our newly admitted Smith
freshmen students from
the moment you step on
campus for the new
Freshman Fellows
Orientation, followed by
“Business Week” a yearly
tradition to kick off
the academic year with a
series of social and
professional events and
activities. For
more information, please click
here.
International
Fellows
A
special group of
Freshman Fellows, Smith
International Fellows
are students who declare
dual degrees in business
and foreign language.
For more information on
International Fellows,
including information on
your foreign language
advisor, please click
here.
Junior/Senior Fellowship Programs
In your junior and
senior years, you will
again have the
opportunity to
participate in a Fellows
track that allows you to
specialize in a specific
area of business.
Fellows programs will
provide a broad range of
opportunities to
specialize and integrate
knowledge gained in the
classroom with
real-world activities
and hands-on
applications in
laboratories,
internships and other
action-based learning.
For more information
on each of the
Junior/Senior Smith
Fellows Programs, and to
apply online, please
click on their links
below
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Accounting
Teaching Scholars
- The AIA Department
offers this special
program opportunity
for undergraduate
accounting students
who serve as
discussion leaders
and teaching
assistants for the
beginning accounting
courses, BMGT 220 +
221. Accounting
teaching scholars
earn a $3,000 yearly
stipend (depending
on hours worked)
while reviewing
material in
preparation for the
CPA exam, and
practicing
organizational and
delivery skills. A
one-credit mentoring
course is offered to
prepare students for
their roles as
teaching assistants.
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Business Process Fellows
Program – The objective
of the Business
Process Fellows
program is to
develop excellence
in operations
management. Students
will learn and
practice business
process
methodologies and
software tools used
by leading edge
companies and
agencies to design
and manage complex
enterprises. The
program will
approach
organizations as
interdependent
systems, with
emphasis on
statistical thinking
and optimization of
the enterprise. A
practicum offered in
conjunction with BMGT
485 Project
Management course
can lead to
internships with
partner companies.
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Design and
Innovation in
Marketing Fellows
- The Design in
Marketing Fellows
Program bridges the
gap between
marketing research
and theory and the
realization of
well-designed
applications. The
program curriculum
and co-curricular
activities are
designed to produce
business leaders who
can make
strategically sound
and creative design
decisions. Fellows
program students
will master the
creative
problem-solving and
innovative- thinking
skills and
experiences along
with marketing
strategy and design
techniques needed to
be competitive in
today’s job market(
including design and
brand management).
This program is
intendedly
interdisciplinary,
with mutual benefit
to be gained by
collaboration
between marketing
students and design
students in
developing creative
business solutions.
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Emerging CFOs
– This
program is designed
for students
interested in
corporate finance
and investment
banking. It is
designed to go more
in depth into
corporate finance
aspects of finance,
and provide students
with enhanced
leadership and
communication
skills. In addition
to traditional
courses taken by all
finance majors,
students in this
program will
attended a dedicated
section of Financial
Management, BMGT
440F. This section
would bring in
corporate guest
speakers and a case
competition.
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Entrepreneurship
Fellows – The
Entrepreneurship
Fellows Program
brings together
talented Smith
School students to
create an
entrepreneurial
chemistry that will
stimulate the
creation and growth
of new
high-potential
enterprises. The
Entrepreneurship
Fellows Program is a
special selective
track of the General
Business major,
providing 4
dedicated
entrepreneurship
courses which
prepare students to
develop great ideas
into viable business
ventures. The
primary goal of the
Entrepreneurship
Fellows program is
to have each student
participate in
launching a
profitable business
venture while still
in school. Students
will pitch the
Dingman Center for
Entrepreneurship for
investment dollars
and will demonstrate
an actionable plan
with a proposed
return on
investment. Students
will also be
encouraged to
participate in
University-hosted
business plan
competitions. The
Dingman Center for
Entrepreneurship
will provide
mentoring, access to
capital, incubation
facilities and other
support for
Entrepreneurship
Fellows to launch
profitable
businesses. For
more information on
the Dingman Center,
please visit
www.rhsmith.umd.edu/dingman.
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Financial Services
Fellows –
This
program is designed
for students
interested in the
financial services
industry, including
traditional banking
(loan officer,
personal banking
officer) and the
financial services
industry (financial
planners, personal
investment
managers). Emphasis
on financial
services:
traditional banking,
financial planners,
personal investment
managers Potential
partners may include
commercial banks,
savings and loans,
credit unions,
insurance companies,
and financial
planning firms. In
addition to
traditional courses
taken by all finance
majors, students in
this program will
attend a dedicated
section of
Commercial Bank
Management, BMGT
445F.
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Global Opportunities
– Global
Opportunities is a
selective and
reciprocal academic
program for language
and business
students interested
in the world of
international
business, who want
to gain skills
outside their majors
and enhance their
opportunities in the
global business
arena. Language
majors complete 15
credits in business,
while business
majors complete 15
credits in a single
foreign language, 9
credits of which
just be at the
300-400 level.
Registration is
expedited for
students in the
program, who also
participate in study
abroad trips,
international clubs
and co-curricular
activities. For
information on the
Foreign Language
offerings, please
visit:
http://www.languages.umd.edu/.
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Honors Fellows - The Honors
Fellows program
offers undergraduate
students with
superior academic
credentials special
career-enhancing
opportunities,
including the
opportunity to
participate in
cutting-edge
research on business
issues and to
graduate with
honors. Honors
students take their
upper-level BMGT
core courses in
small, seminar-style
honors sections that
encourage in-depth
exploration in
topics of marketing,
finance, management
and organization,
business law, and
policy and strategy.
Students also have
the opportunity of
fulfilling one of
their honors course
requirements through
dedicated
faculty-led
winter-term study
abroad trips. The
Business Honors
Council provides
extra-curricular
activities and
community building
with honors alumni.
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Leadership Fellows – Fall 2009:
Leadership Fellows
is an innovative and
high quality
academic program
aimed at selecting
and developing
leadership talent
for business. The
program is based
upon the philosophy
that quality
leadership
development comes
from a combination
of three core
elements: (1) sound
leadership theories
operating as guiding
principles, (2)
quality leadership
experiences and
practices, and (3)
quality feedback
based on scientific
assessment tools.
Students should have
concrete
organizational and
leadership
experiences by
actively
participating in
activities in
school, community,
or business-related
organizations,
ideally taking on
leadership positions
by their second year
in the program.
Students will
participate in a
360-assessment with
mentoring and
feedback from
faculty and student
mentors, and develop
a Leadership
Development Plan as
part of an
action-learning
practicum.
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Lemma Senbet
Investment Fund
Fellows
- The Lemma
Senbet Investment Fund
Fellows
is a year-long,
advanced finance
program available to
undergraduate
finance majors in
their senior year.
Twelve students are
selected in the
spring of their
junior year to
participate on the
fund, two as
portfolio managers
and ten as equity
analysts. The
program provides the
students with the
opportunity to apply
what they have
learned in Finance
classes to actual
investment
decisions, through
researching real
companies and
managing a portfolio
of real money, and
through reviewing
the results of the
decisions they make.
At the end of the
year-long
commitment, the Fund
members will present
their performance to
Fund donors.
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LTSCM
Fellows – The Logistics,
Transportation, &
Supply Chain
Management (LTSCM)
Fellows Leadership
Program offers
students a unique
opportunity for
learning and
community both
within the Smith
School and with
external LTSCM
professionals. As
part of a top-ranked
program, students
will have the
opportunity to take
core LTSCM classes
together,
participate as
leaders in the LTSCM
Society, visit
regional LTSCM
facilities and
operations, sign up
for a class that
explores
international and/or
North American LTSCM
processes, and
network at local and
annual meetings of
leading professional
LTSCM organizations.
By combining
classroom learning
with opportunities
in the professional
community, LTSCM
Junior-Senior
Fellows will provide
a unique opportunity
to build knowledge
of the LTSCM
profession and
create a foundation
for a networked
career.
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Music
Management Fellows – The objective of the
Music Management
Fellows program is
to develop students’
interests and
capabilities in the
specialized
management functions
involved in the
business of music
management,
including music
marketing +
promotions,
production and
distribution,
broadcasting,
performance and
production logistics
in event and tour
management, and
funding and
management of venues
and institutions.
Students will
interact with and
learn from experts
in the field by
participating in the
design and
production of
recorded music, live
events and programs,
and through
specialized clinics
and internships
focused on different
genres and
performance
environments: Music
& Entertainment;
Performing Arts.
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Quantitative
Finance
Fellows – The
Quantitative Finance
Fellows Program
(formerly Financial
Markets Fellows
program) is for
students interested
in investments, and
in particular in
learning more about
the software and
hardware used in the
financial services
industry. In
addition to
traditional courses
taken by all finance
majors, students in
this program will
enroll in a
non-credit section
of Reuters 3000XTRA,
plus BMGT 343F—a
dedicated section of
Investments. This
section would have a
financial markets
lab requirement –
extra sessions
taught in the lab in
which students would
be taught to use
Reuters, Bloomberg
and other financial
markets labs
hardware and
software. Students
would also be
eligible to
participate in
winter-term study
abroad trips with
BMGT Honors, where
focused on financial
markets.
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Quantitative
Marketing Fellows
– Quantitative
marketing is an
approach to
marketing that
relies on computer
based models and
statistical,
econometric and data
mining methods to
understand and
analyze why, which,
when and how much
products and
services are being
bought by consumers
and firms. The aim
is to make better
forecasts, to learn
about new marketing
opportunities, to
enable managers to
ask "what if"
questions, and to
make better
decisions on
pricing,
segmentation,
advertising and
promotions,
distribution,
positioning,
customer
relationship
management, and
product and service
design, among
others.
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QUEST
(Quality Enhancement
Systems and Teams)
- A collaborative
partnership with the
A. James Clark
School of
Engineering and the
College of Computer,
Mathematical and
Physical Sciences,
the QUEST program is
an innovative
three-year quality
management program
with a dynamic
learning
environment.
Grounded in
team-based courses
led by an
interdisciplinary
faculty, the program
offers students the
opportunity to study
integration of
quality in the
workplace while
applying the
knowledge and
skill-set they have
gained from their
major in the field
of engineering,
business or computer
science. QUEST
graduates enter the
work force excelling
in teamwork,
customer value
management, process
and product design,
problem-solving,
project management
and customer
satisfaction.
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Research
Fellows -
Research Fellows is
a one-year program
offering students
paid opportunities
to work with one of
our outstanding
Smith Faculty
members on their
research. Research
fellows complete up
to a total of 250
hours/semester,
which can be
allocated as 18
hours/week for 14
weeks or some other
set hours, to be
established by the
faculty project
supervisor.
Compensation is
$5,000/year—or
$2,500/semester—depending
upon hours worked.
Research Fellows
will present their
work at the annual
Research Day each
spring. Minimum
one-year commitment,
may be renewed.
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Smith Technology
Fellows – ST
Fellows perform a
variety of duties,
which may include
serving as teaching
assistants with
technology-intensive
classes, or as
research assistants,
executing targeted
technology
development projects
for use in
instruction or
research, assisting
faculty and others
with targeted
projects involving
software such as
Oracle or .NET. Some
project assignments
will require
experience using
specific software
platforms and will
provide technical
support for courses,
assist faculty with
tutorials and
demonstrations, and
assist student teams
in projects.
Students working on
projects which
require specific
technology skills
will be eligible to
attend vendor
hands-on training
sessions. Projects
will generally be
defined as one
semester in duration
but could extend
over the academic
year. Compensation
for work on projects
is $10/hour, with
projects ranging
from 200-400 hours,
which can be spread
over a semester or a
year. Projects may
be renewable for
additional
semesters.
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Sports Management
Fellows – The sport
management fellows
program focuses on
the worldwide
enterprise of sport
and the prominence
of organized sports
at every level in
collegiate and
professional sports
environments,
together with the
significance of
auxiliary industries
in sports apparel
and equipment,
television contracts
and other ancillary
products and
services. The
curriculum, includes
an internship built
into the BMGT 485
Project Management
course, will provide
students an
opportunity to focus
on the particular
issues in the sports
industry, and
prepare them for
various roles in
sport management in
both the collegiate
and professional
sport environments
and private sector
enterprises.
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STARS – The
mission of the STARS
program is to
encourage and
attract first
generation and
under represented
students to the
study of business,
to prepare them for
college, and to
encourage them to
make Maryland their
#1 choice. Once
admitted, the
program provides a
supportive network
for academic success
leading to
graduation, and then
welcomes them back
as alumni
contributors to the
Smith Community. The
challenge is to
identify and support
outstanding students
interested in
studying business,
and to work together
with their schools
and with various
access programs to
prepare for
admission to
college. To achieve
this goal, Smith
School
undergraduates have
developed a corps of
peer-mentors who
provide mentoring
and academic support
to high-school
students as well as
to students already
admitted to the
University of
Maryland who seek
admission to the
Smith School.
Student mentors
participate in
visits to high
schools and work
with sponsored
college access
programs. They visit
high-school students
at off-campus sites
and host these
students during
campus visits and
educational programs
such as the annual
High-School-to-College
Workshops and
Finance Field Day. A
one-credit course in Intergroup
Communication is
being considered as
a vehicle for
building mentoring
skills and
coordinating
volunteer
activities.
In addition to the Fellows Programs
listed above, Smith School students can incorporate
other exceptional multidisciplinary
learning opportunities as part of their
degree programs. Programs like
College Park Scholars (including
Business, Society, and the Economy);
Gemstone; and
The Hinman Campus Entrepreneurship
Opportunities (CEOs) programs join business
undergraduates with those from other
disciplines. Each of these
programs offers unique learning
experiences to complement a student's
degree plan, and several of the
programs mentioned above were formed
through partnerships with other colleges
or departments on campus.
Furthermore,
Smith School students
who have entrepreneurial
aspirations can utilize
the many services of the
Dingman Center for
Entrepreneurship
which is housed in Van
Munching Hall. The
Dingman Center helps
students and regional
entrepreneurs develop
and grow their
businesses through a
variety of services and
programs As a
nationally recognized
leader in
entrepreneurship
education, the Center
uses its strategic
position within the
Smith School to leverage
resources from the
entire University to
assist enterprises,
thereby acting as a
window to the
substantial
entrepreneurial
resources at the
University of Maryland.
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