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Very important registration notes for fall quarter – please read carefully

Hey folks,

Now that registration is well underway, we need to cover a few last minute changes:

1. Teaching Schedule is still up in the air, it depends on who we hire and who goes on sabbatical next year, so please stay tuned for that.

2. Capstones, still undecided, the catalyst survey to pre-register for 2013-2014 capstones will likely happen in early to mid June.

3. 341 is very likely going to be removed for fall quarter. We are very sorry for the late breaking news on that one, but if there is no one to teach it, well, we can’t offer the course, so 341 will hopefully be winter and spring, but probably not fall. For the 23 that are already registered, you should add a different course.

4. 311 will only be offered fall and spring, so if you have finished CSE 143 and Math 126, you NEED to take 311 this fall or it could set you back. 311 is a prerequisite to several other courses, so please aim for 311 this fall.

5. Finally, if you want to take a course that is full, you need to attempt to register for it anyways. The reason for this is that we can then see how many were unable to register and judge where to increase course sizes, so please try to register even if you see that a course is full. We’ll be tweaking space in courses in the next few weeks for full courses. And as always, if you can’t get in, plan to attend the first week.

Thanks everyone, we’ll be making adjustments over the next few weeks, but usually this all works out in the end, so we appreciate your patience For those of you who like to grab 4-5 CSE courses and then decide later what to take, please keep in mind this really messes with our planning, so the faster you decide what to take and drop the rest, the better for everyone.

If you haven’t seen the MyPlan feature in My UW, you should all take a look. We’ll be requiring everyone in the future to have a rough draft plan, so the sooner you start taking advantage of these tools, the better for all of us. https://depts.washington.edu/myplan/ We’ll start referencing these more and more during our dropin and regular appointments.

That’s it for now, we’ll share more as we learn more.

Crystal Eney
Academic Advisor – Lead
Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington – Seattle

May 17, 2013

BS/MS (5th years masters) Information Session Slides posted

We have posted slides from the BS/MS (5th year masters) Information Session last week that some of you were unable to attend.

Slides: http://www.cs.washington.edu/prospective_students/bsms/application_information/

*The link is towards the bottom of the page under ‘how to apply’

Let us know you have any other questions.

CSE Advising

April 29, 2013

FYI, reminder of the animation information sessions this week, one more tomorrow

Want to learn more about the 2013-2014 animation course series? Attend an info session!

When:

Tuesday April 16th, 2:00-3:30 PM
Wednesday April 24th, 1:30-3:00 PM
Thursday April 25th, 3:30-5:00 PM

Where:

Paul G. Allen Center room 691 (Gates Commons, 6th floor)

What:

Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) and the Animation Research Labs invite you to an information session on the Animation Production undergraduate course sequence at UW Seattle. This sequence runs from Summer 2013 (A term) through Spring 2014. The Summer course, Story Design for Computer Animation, is highly recommended but optional.

The Animation Capstone culminates in a very professional and exciting collaboratively produced digital short film, similar in process to Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks productions. Examples of previous award winning films produced in the dept will be shown and questions regarding applications and admission, etc. will be addressed. We look forward to seeing you there. Light refreshments will be served.

April 24, 2013

Tentative schedule for next year 2013-2014

FYI, the tentative teaching schedule has been posted for the 2013-2014 academic year.

We don’t have instructors listed yet and we will not likely have that information until late this quarter, but hopefully this will help you plan your courses to some degree. It is of course tentative which means subject to change. We don’t know exactly how this will play out until we finalize any possible hiring decisions.

CSE Advising

April 11, 2013

CSE 452: distributed systems

Just an FYI, while in the past CSE 452 Distributed Systems was not on the core list represented on this page: http://www.cs.washington.edu/students/ugrad/core_courses/

It has recently been added. We will be contacting the folks in the Degree Audit course to add CSE 452 to the Core CSE list. If you are currently enrolled in 452, wait another week and then run an audit and it should show up in the right place.

CSE Advising

April 10, 2013

5th year masters information session – April 22nd 330PM

If you are interested in applying to the 5th year masters (combined BS/MS) program, please join us for an information session on Monday, April 22nd at 330pm in room 691 (Gates Commons) of the Paul G. Allen Center for CS&E.

The optimal time to apply is towards the end of your junior year.

Take a look at the webpages to familiarize yourself with the program and then join us on the 22nd. The faculty advisor (Professor Dieter Fox) and I, along with fellow advisor Elise and students from the program will be there to answer your questions.

Crystal

April 5, 2013

Graduating students – you need to read this

Please pass on this important message regarding commencement to your students.

– Students who graduated Summer 2012, Autumn 2012, or Winter 2013 are eligible to walk in commencement and their names will appear in the Commencement bulletin.

– Students who plan to graduate Spring 2013 are eligible to walk in commencement and have their names appear in the Commencement Bulletin; however, they must submit their master’s requests or doctoral final exam requests to the Graduate School no later than Friday, April 19th, 5 pm (PST).

– Students who plan to graduate Summer 2013 are eligible to walk in commencement; however, their names will appear in next year’s Commencement Bulletin

**Please Note: There will be no exceptions to this deadline. We apologize for the inflexibility but are required by the Office of Ceremonies to adhere to this deadline so publication deadlines can be met.

All questions should be directed to the Office of Ceremonies at 206.543.2592 or commence@uw.edu

For information regarding commencement please refer to one of the pages below:

Commencement – UW Bothell: http://www.bothell.washington.edu/commencement

Commencement – UW Seattle: http://www.washington.edu/graduation/

Commencement – UW Tacoma: http://www.tacoma.uw.edu/commencement

April 4, 2013

Summer 2013 course offerings

In case this might change anything these courses will definitely be offered this summer (although I don’t yet have final times).

Definitely offering:

CSE 456 and 464 (animation)

CSE 333

CSE 351 and 390A
CSE 154 web programming
CSE 142/143

Maybe offering:

*CSE 421, we’re not sure yet

April 2, 2013

Summer 2013 course offerings – update

I finally have word on what we will offer this summer. We will definitely offer:

CSE 142, 143, 154 (web programming), 333 (systems programming) and 351 (hardware/software interface) and 390A the one credit course that goes with 351.
Additionally, there will be two animation courses, CSE 456 and 464 (one A term and the other B term) and we *might* offer CSE 421, that is still pending. I should know by a week from today (by the start of spring quarter) if we’ll offer 421 this summer.

If you don’t see the course name/number above, then we are not offering it this summer. If you see it on the time schedule and not on this list, again, then it will not be offered.

March 25, 2013

STAT 391

Just a reminder that STAT 391 has been re-vamped a bit to match our new curriculum better. You would ideally have CSE 312 completed before taking 391. Additionally, note that Stat 391 can be applied to a math minor, but you have to email the math advisors to have the exception put into the UW system. There are still a couple of spaces left in stat and it also counts as a CSE core course and CSE Senior elective.

March 20, 2013