CSE Undergrad News

Study Abroad opportunity next year – Deadline to apply May 15th, two information sessions this week

Grand Challenges (GCs) are the big problems facing humanity – things like food security, clean water, and climate change. The Grand Challenge Impact Lab (GCIL) is a new UW study abroad program in Bangalore, India that empowers students to address GCs.

First, this week and next week are going to be very busy for Quick Questions (formerly known as ‘drop ins’) so please plan accordingly.   There are multiple ways to contact the advising staff, so please take a look at the advising page for more information. Remember we’ll have a sign at the front desk saying when the peer advisers are available, so that is a good option for many quick questions.

Additionally, here are some changes to the fall schedule:

I’m sad to report that we’ve been informed that 10+HDMI cables have gone missing from the ugrad labs making the monitors unusable.  In case you decided to ‘borrow them’, please consider returning them to the labs where they belong ASAP.  We all work very hard to provide nice facilities for our students, but when things like this happen, it hurts the whole community, most importantly, your fellow students.

Borrowing from Metro, “If you see something, say something”.  We need all of you to look out for each other and our facilities.  If this continues to happen we’ll be forced to re-consider the types of resources we provide for students.  Let’s work together to keep this a safe, well functioning place to work.

Thank you,

CSE Advising and CSE Support

Another reminder to please go into your MyPlan before Friday to enter your intended schedule for the academic year. Even if it’s a rough draft it’s extremely helpful for us to see where the pressure points are.  Right now we are debating whether to increase some class sizes, and so far the data isn’t convincing My guess is many of you still haven’t filled out the MyPlan schedule for next year yet.  Please try to get this done soon.

https://myplan.uw.edu/course/

Additionally, we have posted the TENTATIVE teaching schedule for 2018-2019.    Courses might still change, but this is our best guess for the upcoming year.  It’s possible we’ll still add some courses, but still a chance something might move too.

A few things to note:

• 401 in the fall will be with Hal Perkins and there will be a CSEM 501 linked course
• 401 with Ras will be taught in the spring and we hope to rename it to something else since the two courses have diverged. A student could likely take both courses if they want to.
• 455 in winter is the most tentative, so if something was going to be removed, that might be one to have a plan B
• There are a few double offerings: 311, 332 and 351 in fall, 312 and 332 in winter, and 311, 351, 331, 333, and 446 in spring
• There is a new 300 level course in spring (probably will be numbered 340) on Interactive Systems
• We’ll release capstone registration information in June or July hopefully – students pre-register for capstones
• 475 the more hardware focused CE capstone will be in the fall with a CSE faculty, winter and spring by EE faculty

We’ll send more updates as we have learn about them.

Registration starts on Friday for graduating students.

Finally, we hope capstones will be posted for sign ups in early summer so stay tuned for that too.

Just a reminder that summer courses are open for registration. We’ll be opening some of these courses to non majors in the next few weeks, so if you think you might want to take CSE courses this summer, we encourage you to go ahead and get signed up. CSE 351 has a lot of room and is taught by one of the common 351 instructors so that’s one to consider.

331, 332, 333, 344, and 351 are all offered.

http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SUM2018/cse.html

CSE Advising

Just a friendly reminder that Lab 022 is the quiet lab so you should be, well, very, very quiet.  That means whispering if you must have a short side conversation, but better yet, move to another lab if you need to have constant conversations.

Thank you all for your cooperation.

Sincerely,

CSE Advising

To all students who think you are graduating, please double check your degree audit in your My Plan to see that your graduation date is accurately listed at the top.  It should say: Graduation Date with the quarter you plan to graduate.

If you do not see a graduation date, and you think you filed, please contact ugrad-advisor@cs.uw.edu as soon as possible.

If you want to graduate at the end of spring and have not filed, you need to contact an adviser in CSE before Friday at noon.

And finally, please make sure to update your permanent address in MyUW so your graduation invitations go to the right place.  For students who live in WA or other states in the US, they will go to your permanent address, for international students we’ll mail it to your local address.

There will be more information in the next few weeks regarding graduation so please be watching your emails carefully.

CSE Advising