Dear Graduating CSE majors!
If you are graduating at the end of this fall, winter or spring quarter, it’s time to file for graduation! First, please check your degree audit in your MyPlan to see if you have a projected graduation date. If you do, you’re good to go. If you don’t, we have a new, online process this year so you will only need to physically come in to advising if you have extensive questions. Everyone needs to first fill out this survey, regardless of questions.
There are basically two steps.
1. Fill out our
CSE Graduating Student Online Form. You must login with your CSE Gmail Account Credentials. The deadline to apply to
graduate for Fall quarter is
October 10th. The deadline to apply to
graduate Winter or Spring quarter and have
graduating senior priority (early) registration is
October 25th.
2. Watch for the UW confirmation for your graduation application and SUBMIT that when you see it come through your UW Email address
If you are pursuing a double major or double degree, you’ll need to file graduation paperwork with your other department as well.
You do NOT need to come in for an appointment if you fill out the form. We will contact you if we have questions or concerns.
Thank you!
September 28, 2018
I wanted to update all of our students on a few changes on the Ugrad advising team.
- Before we get to that, just a quick note that this week on Tuesday we will be very short staffed, so please note there will be a longer than normal wait at Quick Questions (QQ’s) on that day. We’ll have the same QQ schedule this year of Monday mornings, Tues-Wed-Thurs afternoons and Friday mornings. Check the advising calendar for dates and times.
- We will have a new process for graduation appointments this year, please stay tuned for more information on that process in the next few days. Please do NOT come to QQ’s for graduation appointments this week.
- Overload process is the same as previous quarters: sign up on UW’s notify tool and watch for open space. Contact advising if you are in need of a course to graduate or something else extraordinary.
Now on to the staffing changes/updates:
First, Lacey one of our ugrad advisers from last year, was on a temporary contract position through August and decided to pursue other adventures. We are grateful for the time she spent on our team and wish her well in her future endeavors.
This week we are super excited to welcome TWO new ugrad advisers onto our team!!
- Leslie Ikeda joins us as an academic adviser. She will work with prospective students in the beginning and will eventually add in current students as well. She has worked on campus previously and just graduated from Seattle University with a masters degree.
- Kim Nguyen, graduated in 2012 from our CS program, worked at Microsoft for 5 years in both program manager and recruiter positions, and will be joining our team as an adviser focused on career counseling but also doing some academic counseling. Kim will be available to start taking appointments soon, so stay tuned for how to schedule those on Acuity. She will also be available during some of our quick questions as well.
- With over 1300 total current students and over 1000 prospective students, we are very appreciative of the Allen School leadership supporting these additional positions.
We will also have a staff of 7 peer advisers from the ranks of your CSE classmates helping the ugrad team this year:
- Daniel Barnes
- Mitali Palekar
- Alison Ng
- Savanna Yee
- Maegan Nevalsky
- Josephine Lee
- Suzanne Kaltenbach
Jenifer, Maggie, Chloe, Pim and I are still here to help you all out as well, in addition to graduate advisers Elise, Dave and Garrett. Raven and Jeremy are also still here heading up our Diversity and Outreach team.
We are excited for the year to begin and look forward to seeing you all back this Wed.
Sincerely,
Crystal Eney and the CSE Advising Team
September 24, 2018
We finally have the list of 2018-2019 capstones. Please fill out the survey linked on the capstone page to request a space in a capstone for this coming year. Most students should only be requesting capstones after they have finished most of their 300 level courses and ideally at least one 400 by the time you enroll in the capstone course. (There are exceptions to this, such as Accessibility – contact instructors for more information)
Computer Engineering students and BS/MS students who are required to have a capstone will be given priority, followed by graduating seniors in Computer Science. You can select your first, second and third choice. You will only be placed into one capstone, if you want to take more than one you can register on a space available basis after registration starts for that quarter. I’ll try to have decisions out by August. 30th.
We are still waiting on faculty to provide more details about the Fall cloud computing capstone and the spring technology for the developing world capstone. When I hear from those faculty I’ll update the webpage and send additional news posts.
~Sincerely,
CSE Advising
August 20, 2018
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/www-cse-public/education/time-sched/teaching2018-2019.html
We have just released the teaching schedule for the upcoming year with instructor names. The UW time schedule should be updated in the next week with this information. While things can still change at this point, this is our best information at this point in time.
Capstone information will be sent out hopefully early next week after we finalize information on all the expected capstone courses. Stay tuned for that message.
CSE Advising
August 13, 2018
CSE 490 G1/CSE 599 G1 — Introduction to Deep Learning
Prerequisites: 446 OR 455
SLN: 23410 CSE 490 G1
Wednesday and Friday: 330-450pm
Description: A survey class of neural network implementation and applications. Topics include: optimization – stochastic gradient descent, adaptive and 2nd order methods, normalization; convolutional neural networks – image processing, classification, detection, segmentation; recurrent neural networks – semantic understanding, translation, question-answering; cross-domain applications – image captioning, vision and language.
June 14, 2018
CSE 490, Information and Communication Technology for Development
Prerequisite: CSE 332 and 331 or 351
Counts as a CSE Senior Elective
SLN 23346 , offered MWF 130-220
This is an engineering course teaching the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to address specific needs of developing countries. While ICTs are having an enormous impact on livelihoods worldwide, deployment environments vary dramatically based on available infrastructure and technologies accessible to people. The goal of this course is provide background to develop and deploy technologies in a global setting that address development challenges. Specific topics will include: health information systems, data collection technologies, applications for basic mobile phones, user interface design for low literate populations, behavior change communication, voice based social networks, community cellular networks, open source projects for global good, low-cost smartphones, satellite image analysis and mobile financial services. The course will consider a wide range of application domains including health, education, agriculture, finance, and livelihood.
The class sessions will be a lecture / discussion format with readings and assignments. There will be a series of small group implementation projects to gain familiarity with different technologies and software systems and to explore the design space for various applications.
June 5, 2018
Good Morning! The BS/MS application is now open.
A couple of notes about the application:
- We will contact your faculty recommenders after the application closes. You should talk to them in advance, but do not need to coordinate the actual recommendation process.
- You may not find a person you want to use as a reference in the drop down menu. If that is the case, it may be that:
- They are a graduate student. In that case, we generally encourage them to work with their faculty adviser to submit on their behalf. Please let us know if this is problematic.
- They may be a guest lecturer. In that case, if we still have contact with them we will try to include them. Contact us with questions.
- They may be affiliate faculty and may not be in our system yet. Let us know and I’ll have it updated.
The application is linked from the BS/MS application page: https://www.cs.washington.edu/academics/bsms/application
Here are the timelines for this application cycle:
May 21 – June 11th: Application Open
June 11th: Application Deadline
Decisions emailed early July
Questions? Email Jen <jenifer@cs.uw.edu> or Crystal <ceney@cs.uw.edu>
May 22, 2018
The Ugrad Lunch with the Director, Hank Levy, will be next week on Wednesday, May 23rd from 12-1pm. We need an RSVP ahead of time so please take a minute to fill this out if there is any chance that you’ll be able to stop by.
RSVP Link
This is a chance for CSE Current Students to eat pizza, talk with Hank, eat more pizza, talk with advisors, and eat more pizza. We’re hoping to collect questions ahead of time, so please let us know what you’d like to hear about so we can make the best use of your time.
We are looking forward to seeing you all!
May 16, 2018
Present your posters at the 2018 Allen School Spring Poster Fair!
Hello Allen School undergrads and 5th year masters students!
We are excited to announce our second annual Paul G. Allen School Spring Poster Fair! All students who have participated in any capstone, project courses, or research this year are encouraged to apply to present their posters.
The Event
The 2018 Allen School undergraduate poster session will be held on Thursday, June 7th, from 3:30-5 p.m. in the Atrium. The poster session is open to all BS and BS/MS students who participated in a capstone course (such as 475 and 481) or project course (such as 440 or any other 400 level project course) or research during the 2017-18 academic year.
This will be a more formal event, with high profile Allen School alumni and friends coming to view your work. Presenting students are welcome to bring family members, as it will be the day before our CSE commencement ceremony.
There is a short application process. Student posters will be selected based on various factors including the quality of the abstract in the application, the likely interests of the Allen School alumni/friends visiting, and our goal to present a wide range of ‘cool’ projects from multiple courses.
Why participate?
- There will be a prize! A panel of judges in attendance will vote on the 2018 Project of the Year. Presenters of the winning poster, in addition to all the kudos associated with being the second-ever awardees, will receive $1,000 to split among the group.
- You can have another chance to show off that project you have worked so hard on. Presenters will get to meet and talk about their projects to smart, talented friends of CSE.
The Details
- At least one member of the team must be at the poster session to represent the poster.
- At least one member of the team who will be present at the event must be enrolled as a CS, CE, or CSEM student.
- Fall 2017, Winter 2018, and Spring 2018 capstone, project courses, and research are all eligible to participate.
Application Process
Fill out this short form: https://goo.gl/forms/q74k36ayR9tQIazN2
Applications are due by end of day on May 23rd
Presenters will be notified by May 30th.
Questions? Email Kay at kbeck@cs.washington.edu or the advisors @ugrad-advisor@cs.washington.edu
May 9, 2018
