CSE Undergrad News

The CSE dept. is interested in hearing your feedback on company recruiting behavior this year. We’ve heard both good and bad, and would like to capture this in a survey so we can give generalized feedback to the companies to help improve the process in the future.  If you are willing to share your experiences, please fill out this brief survey.

If you prefer to come in to chat with us in person, please feel free to come to dropins, or make an appointment.  For the in person meetings, however,  you might want to wait until registration calms down in a couple of weeks, as dropins are pretty crazy busy right now. Please gives us feedback before you leave for spring break.

Survey: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/cseadv/261001

Thank you,

CSE Advising

We deliver on our promises, since we moved CSE 484 to 830, we’re buying you all pizza, see below.  🙂

From: Hank Levy <levy@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 6:55 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Chair’s lunch next week (Feb. 24th)
To: Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>

There will be a CSE undergraduate “pizza lunch with the chair” next week — Tuesday (February 24th) — from 12 to 1 in the Gates Commons (691).   As usual, this is an opportunity to eat pizza, ask questions about the program, eat more pizza, and find out what’s going on.

This is for current CSE undergrads only.

See you there!

Hank

Once again, we know there are a lot of full courses out there.  We are working hard to find larger rooms for some courses, and others will balance out.  If you look at the schedule now for winter, you’ll see that things worked out. There are only 3 or 4 courses that are still listed as full or overloaded for winter.  Everyone panics, they hoard courses, then they don’t understand why the courses all fill up.  You should definitely try to register for any course that is full just so we know who is trying, also make sure to sign up on the UW notify tools so you can be alerted when/if space is added.

Showing up to dropins to request an add code for a full course will not get you any where, sadly, we just can’t overload courses right now.  As things calm down over the next few weeks, we’ll get folks in to what they need, but it takes some patience. Here are the policies on full courses so you know what to expect.

Also note the 1 credit intellectual property law seminar is now open, CSE 490T.

http://www.cs.washington.edu/students/ugrad/before_you_register#major

Please do not contact faculty directly. CSE advisors manage overload requests for 300- and 400-level majors classes (i.e., those open only to CS or CE majors) during the first week of the quarter.  Here are actions you can take if desired classes are full:

1. Attempt to register for the full course on MyUW. This will not put you on a wait list, but it does tell us how many people attempted to get into a course and were denied admission due to space.
2. Continue watching the time schedule for an open space. Also consider other courses you can take and register for them.
3. If you cannot enroll before the start of the quarter, plan to attend class. During the first few days of the quarter, the instructor will make a paper sign-in sheet available to students who still need to register. At the end of the first week, instructors will give out add codes if there is room in the course to overload.
4. If you have trouble registering due to prerequisites, contact an advisor for assistance.
5. If you need an advisor’s help registering, please include all relevant information, your request will be handled a lot faster if you include: full name, student number and all schedule line numbers and course numbers.

With respect to non-CSE courses, the Gateway Center for Undergrad Advising provides tips and specific departmental information for getting into closed courses. For most courses, checking the time schedule for openings is your best chance of getting a space.

There are two more changes:

CSE 461 has changed to  MW 2:30-3:50 (it’s was 3:30-4:50).

CSE 431 will be moving to 2:30-3:30 MWF

Law Seminar Added: there will be a 2 credit seminar added either Wed or Thurs 3:30-5:20PM, hopefully by early next week

This course will provide a survey of intellectual property law for a technical (non-legal) audience, with a primary focus on patent law. The purpose of the course is to assist engineers and scientists in navigating and utilizing various intellectual property regimes effectively in the business context. In the patent realm, topics will include patent preparation and prosecution, patent claim interpretation, and assessing patent validity and infringement. Other topics include copyright (e.g., open source licensing issues), trademark, and trade secret law. The course will also endeavor to balance the discussion of practical legal considerations with broader policy questions (e.g., should certain subject matter be off limits for patenting?, the relationship between innovation and IP, approaches to patent reform, recent Supreme Court patent law rulings, etc.). Joint with CSE 590 T (SPR 2015).

~CSE Advising

We’ve heard your collective groans over the time change of 484 to the uncivilized hour of 830 AM, GASP!

We knew this would not be popular, and it isn’t something we chose to do lightly.   It isn’t that we don’t like you, or that we only want the most dedicated students who are committed to their education to take it….

We had to move it because the original time conflicted with another course the instructor needs to attend. And why, you ask, could we not just move the other course? The other course has attendees from across campus, those are much harder to move, and we really need to keep that one stable. Security has been at 830 in the past, so 830 is actually ‘stable’ for that course.

If you start looking at the schedule it’s a huge puzzle. As soon as we move one course, there is a serious domino effect that means we have to move other course.  Pretty soon we’re re-arranging the whole schedule. Then as soon as we do that, we’ve created conflicts in a whole bunch of other ways.

So, when it came down to it, we had to move the course, and 830 ended up being the least disruptive when we considered the big picture.

We have confidence that you folks will survive. Tell you what, to make up for it, we’re buying you all pizza at some point in the next two weeks.

Thank you for your understanding. We know it isn’t ideal, but we do honestly try hard to arrange things as best we can.  The UW would like for us to have MORE courses at 830 and after 330, we try hard not to do that, but sometimes it’s unavoidable.  On the upside, you’ll have an awesome instructor who will keep you engaged, so you have that going for you.

~Your trusty advisors

Just a quick reminder, if you are doing any paid research, we need to make sure it’s accounted for in your MyCSE profile so we can accurately report cumulative data to the UW on how many students participate in research.  Please go to your MyCSE portal and go to the research tab.  You will “request” paid research (and since you are already doing it, I’m sure your faculty member will agree).  Thank you!

My CSE:  https://norfolk.cs.washington.edu/mycse

Additionally, we need all of you headed out to internships this summer to record that information (or paid research) in the co-ops, internships and post_UW tab within MyCSE as well. So if you have accepted an internship offer please go ahead and fill that out now as well.

Thank you!

CSE Advising

Hey everyone,

We’re going to host an information session for the 5th year masters program here in CSE this Thursday, Feb. 5th at 430 in the Gates Commons, room 691 of the Allen Center for CS&E.  Come learn about the BS/MS program, how to apply, what to expect, and whether or not this program is right for you.  The session will be hosted by Professor Brian Curless (current 5th year masters faculty coordinator), Crystal and Jenifer the 5th year masters program advisors and special guests from the BS/MS program itself.

Look forward to seeing you on Thursday!

CSE Advising

Hey everyone,

If you have any interest in the 5th year masters program, please join the faculty advisor, the advisors and some current students for an information session on Thursday Feb. 5th at 430PM in room 691 (Gates Commons) of the Paul G. Allen Center for CS&E.

We look forward to seeing you there,

~CSE Advising

Overloading: If you are still trying to get into a CSE course, plan to attend the first day and put your name on the overload list. We’ll try to make decisions by Friday at the latest.

Dropin advising: It’s going to be very busy this week.  If you have immediate registration issues, feel free to come to dropins this week, if you want to look at your four year plan… let’s wait until you fill out a MyPlan and then come see us after a couple of weeks have passed…

Graduation Apps:  The first week isn’t a good time for that meeting, we might miss something, and that would make you sad.  If you are graduating this winter and you haven’t applied to graduate, you need to come in by the 3rd Friday of the quarter. You can check to see if you’ve filed but going to your MyCSE account and logging in.

Email:  We get a lot of email, but here is a tip, if you need a section change or something registration related and you give us ALL the info you think we might need (student number, sln’s etc) so we don’t have to look things up, there is a higher chance we’ll answer your email sooner rather than later.  Please try to give us at least 48 hours to return your email before pinging us again. Sending an email every hour or two doesn’t increase your chances of getting spot in the coveted class…  And please don’t email asking to be overloaded, see step one above.

Tutoring: We do have some limited tutoring available, sign up online if you are interested. These small groups of 1-4 are led by a graduate student tutor.  http://www.cs.washington.edu/students/ugrad/tutoring

Thanks everyone, and welcome back!

CSE Advising

Hey everyone,

I hope you’ve all had a good break and are enjoying your last few days of relaxation.   I wanted to briefly let you know about a couple of changes in your advising team. Tina Donahue has taken a job outside of UW, so we bid her farewell a few weeks ago.  We have hired another advisor to join us for the next 6 months, her name is Patsy Wosepka.  She has been an advisor around UW for many years and will be helping us with prospective student questions for the most part.  In late spring we’ll hire for a permanent replacement to Tina’s position.

Raven, Jenifer, Pim and I are all still here and will be welcoming you back next week.

Sincerely,

Crystal

Crystal Eney
Director of Student Services
Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington – Seattle