CSE Undergrad News

All students must file a graduation application by the 3rd Friday of the quarter they wish to graduate. You can file up to three quarters in advance if you also want to register using graduating senior priority.

The week of October 1st-5th will be reserved for students graduating *this* fall.  October 8-26th will be for students graduating winter, spring or summer.  If you apply to graduate by Oct. 26th, you’ll receive graduating senior priority registration for winter and spring.  We will send another reminder email when we are ready to release appointment times for next week.

To book a graduation appointment, please follow the steps closely on “Applying for Graduation”: https://www.cs.washington.edu/students/ugrad/graduation/

Additionally, the CSE department is participating in a campus-wide survey of graduating students. Your participation is optional. If you participate, we will complete your graduation paperwork normally, then ask a few questions about the most challenging work you completed as a student. It will only take an additional 5 minutes. To prepare for this survey, you may want to take a look at your CSE courses and spend a minute or two thinking about which one stretched your thinking the most.

CSE Advisors hosting appointments for graduation will be: Crystal, Raven and Elise

We need mentors *this Thursday*! Please sign up today.

Hey everyone,

Welcome back to UW!  We hope you had a restful summer and we look forward to seeing you all in the next few weeks (well, maybe not all at the same time!) but soon.

Blogs:

A few advising notes to kick-off the new year. Remember that you can login to the CSE ugrad news site and set your preferences for the types of messages you want to see. We try to make sure it’s all CSE related, but if it’s loosely related, I mark it miscellaneous in case you want to filter.

Overloading:

Also, please note that if you are trying to get into a CSE majors’ course, just attend this week and add your name to the overload form. We’ll do our best to get everyone in by Friday (or at least have a game plan by then on how to help you).

Advising staff additions:

You may have heard we are expanding the ugrad population. Well, that’s true, and with that comes an expansion of our staff too.  Please welcome to the advising team Jenifer Pesicka.  She will begin meeting with pre-majors and then add current majors to her repertoire. She will be sitting in a lot with Raven, Elise and me during our meetings this next month, so please introduce yourself when you meet her.

Additionally, if you’ve been here for two years (maybe you should be graduating soon….) but you may also remember Megan Reardon. She is back in CSE this fall helping with some K-12 outreach initiatives and will also be helping with some advising email and appointments as well.

And finally, we are really trying to step up our ‘online advising’ presence, so stay tuned for more information on that.

Okay, more later, but I wanted to get this out there sooner rather than later.

-CSE advising

Crystal, Raven, Elise, Jenifer and Megan

We put some posts up recently that our new students may not have seen, such as 311 possibly not being offered this winter. Please read the blog posts for the last week or two if you think you may have missed something. We just added all current students to the list and removed students who had graduated (except current 5th year masters students)

CSE Advising

We had mentioned to some of you that CSE 311 may be offered this winter quarter (even though it still isn’t officially on the teaching schedule). We’ve been informed that while they are still trying to find an instructor, it isn’t set yet and therefore it may NOT be offered.  If you are new to the 300 level courses and are not in 311 this fall, you should consider taking it this fall or know that you *may* need to wait until spring quarter.

We will try to keep everyone posted as much as possible.

CSE Advising

Hey folks,

Just a heads up that CSE 467 will not be offered next year.  If you are planning to take the CSE 477 capstone, CSE 466 or EE 472 will be the only prerequisite required.

Hey folks,

There have been a few changes to the 2012-2013.

*446 was removed from winter, but will still be offered in the spring

*454 Advanced Internet Systems was added to winter (capstone survey will be re-opened if you want to change your selections)

*there will be another offering of networks added in the winter, so it will now be taught all three main quarters next year

For anyone who filled out the capstone survey and would like to change your answers to make 454, Advanced Internet Systems one of your options, the catalyst survey has been re-opened.

Please note, most students currently were set to get their first choice capstone except for the fall “Kinect” capstone, that one was over-subscribed by about 7 students. Once students have about a week to go in and change preferences with the addition of 454, I’ll send out the capstone assignments via email.

We need to alert all of you to some registration issues this fall.

1. There is a prerequisite change, 477 (the capstone course) will only have 466 as a prerequisite next year.

2. If a course is full, please do two things. One, try to register even though you know it’s full.  The UW registration system captures a tally, and this helps us understand if we need to open more space in a course. Two, keep watching for space to open, watch the blog for announcements for additional sections, and attend the first week to try to overload.

3. CSE 190 the web programming course will open for registration with it’s new (permanent) number late next week, stay tuned. The time , 330 MWF should stay the same.

4. Capstone survey, pre-registration will take place late May or early June, watch the blog for updates.

5. Seminars: There are a few seminars for ugrads this fall.

a. 490q: quantum computing for beginners, one credit, not graded

An introduction to computation using the fundamental laws of quantum
> physics: quantum circuit model, quantum algorithms, experimental
> implementations, recent research progress, philosophical conundrums,
> connections to classical computer science, engineering, and physics.
> Focus on intuitive/pictorial understanding. Includes guest lecturers
> and possibility of programming a D-Wave machine. Prerequisites: high
> school physics, undergrad linear algebra, curiosity.

b. 490 O: k-12 outreach, this course may or may not be offered, please fill out the survey if you’re interested and if there are enough students who express interest, it will likely be offered.

https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/helenem/168181

c. DUB and CHANGE seminars are usually open to ugrads, search the CSE website for information. They are listed as a 590.

Lunch with the CSE Department Chair is today May 9th from noon to 1 in the Gates Commons  (room 691).  This is open to all current CSE undergraduates. We look forward to seeing you.

This is early notification that there will be a Lunch with the CSE Department Chair on May 9th from noon to 1 in the Gates Commons.  This is open to all current CSE undergraduates. We look forward to seeing you on the 9th.