CSE Undergrad News

Hello, CSE majors! We’re happy to introduce a new option that will count toward CSE senior elective credit. This Vertically Integrated Project credit allows undergrads to work on interdisciplinary teams. You have the option to work on a project for multiple quarters (although one quarter may be possible). This Spring, we have two projects available — read below for more details!

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Join the UW Vertically-Integrated Projects (VIP) Program, which supports hands-on, project-based, undergraduate research and exploration.

The VIP Program operates in a research and development context, with teams of students and faculty working on real-world projects. Undergraduate students that participate in VIP earn academic credit for their participation in design/discovery efforts that assist faculty and graduate students with research and development issues in their areas of expertise.

The teams are:

• Multidisciplinary – drawing students from all disciplines on campus;
• Vertically-integrated – maintaining a mix of sophomores through PhD students each quarter;
• Long-term – each undergraduate student may participate in a project for up to three years and each graduate student may participate for the duration of their graduate career.

There are two VIP teams currently in CSE: AccessMap & OSRead.

About AccessMap:

AccessMap is an effort to integrate multiple sources of data (municipal, GIS, OpenStreetMap, transportation, and many others) to produce a map and routing application that displays sidewalk information for mobility-impaired users. For example, the map shows elevation change data, curb ramps, and bus stop information. The routing algorithm, rather than optimize for shortest path, uses a customizable approach to routing and navigation to provide routes that are specific to an individual’s needs. We work on big data problems and use optimization and learning techniques to improve our search and user experience.

About OSRead:

OSREAD is an open source platform for Learning and Brain Science researchers to implement and measure the success of various reading, education and intervention curricula. An interesting challenge we are working on with OSREAD is to incorporate a variety of assessment and measurement tools, to provide learners and researchers feedback on student’s performance.