CSE Undergrad News

CSE482 Course Goals and Objectives

In this course we consider the complex relationship between people and technology. Your capstone project will likely challenge you to examine the ways in which technology can be both assistive and a potential barrier to individuals.

This course fulfills ABET requirements for the CSE major as well as the Diversity requirement. You will be asked to follow good engineering and documentation practices. Additionally, given the topic of the course and the participation of project Need Experts in your groups, you will be asked to follow participatory design principles in your design activities. This includes not only paying close attention to your stakeholder’s needs, but collaborating with the Need Experts in the full design process.

CSE482 provides students:

Exposure to the engineering, design, economic and social challenges facing designers, engineers, researchers, entrepreneurs, clinicians, older adults, and individuals with disabilities in the design, development, and use of accessible technology

Engagement in a team-based project experience that exercises collaborative working skills and applies an engineering design process to tackle difficulties experienced by individuals with disabilities and older adults

Participation and Interaction with users of accessibility features and assistive technology in the local community along with health care professionals, coaches, and caregivers.

Registration is open: CSE 482 SLN 3121

T TH 1030-1150 MGH 278 Caspi,A

The small, mid-year application for the BSMS program is now open: https://norfolk.cs.washington.edu/csem_app

Important Dates:

Nov 21: Application Opens

Dec 8th: Application Closes

Dec 9th – 18th: Recommendations from Faculty requested

Dec 19th: Applications begin review

Decisions sent by December 29th

The intended applicants for this round are students who are graduating this fall or winter quarter who were caught off guard by changes to the program that were announced late last year – namely, that you must apply for the program before you have graduated from the undergraduate program. This will be a very small, targeted application cycle. We will likely admit only 1-5 students.

If you are graduating in spring 2018 or later, you may apply during this application cycle, but this is not the intention of this round. Most students graduating this June should have applied to the BSMS program last May, as the ideal time to apply is approximately one year before you finish your undergraduate degree.  For students who are graduating this spring quarter or later who wish to apply, you can reach out to Jenifer and me through the vgrad-advisor@cs.uw.edu email with questions.

The details on the BSMS webpages still reference the spring admission cycle because this is a special, one time opening.

Thank you,

Jenifer and Crystal

BSMS Advising Team

Here is the much anticipated Overload Request Form for Winter 2018.

If you are struggling to get into a CSE Major’s course, you should fill this form out before 8am on Monday.  We will do everything possible to get you all into the courses you need.

Please note, if you have 3 CSE courses on your schedule and are asking for a 4th or 5th, you need to explain why.  We are trying to balance all requests with the fact that some students have zero courses and we need to get as many people through as possible.

We hope to have decisions mailed out by Wednesday the 22nd.

Thank you for your patience as we work on growing our courses.

Sincerely,

CSE Advising

Hey everyone,

The first lunch with the chair will be tomorrow, Thursday, from noon to 1pm in the Gates Commons (room 691 of the Allen Center).  Come join the Director of the Allen School to hear about what’s new in CSE and to voice any appreciation or concerns you may have with life in the Allen Center.

Pizza is on the menu. This event is for current majors only.

CSE Advising

Hello CSE students!

We want to apologize for the long waits this past quarter during dropins. The 1000+ current majors and 1000+ prospective students have really hit us hard. On the upside, things should be getting better very soon!

Jenifer Hiigli is transitioning back from leave so she and Owen (her 4 month old sidekick) will be starting to see students some and responding to email.

Additionally, we recently hired Lacey Schmidt as another professional staff advisor who will start working with prospective students this quarter and then add current students later next quarter.

With two additional staff members we hope that the long lines will dissipate soon.

Maggie, Chloe, Raven and I are also still around to help, but Raven is mostly working on Diversity and Outreach projects now and seeing fewer students.

Thank you for hanging in there with us during the fall quarter madness, hopefully things will be better from here on out.

CSE Advising

We are offering a new Robotics course, CSE 490R this winter quarter, see below for details.

“This course provides a practical introduction to techniques in
robotics, primarily related to planning, control, perception and more
recent learning methods including deep learning. The course will
involve a lab component where students will work in small teams to
implement multiple assignments on a rally car platform.”

Prerequisites:
CSE 332: Data Structures and Parallelism

Recommended –
CSE 312: Foundations of Computing II
Math 308: Matrix Algebra

Optional –
473: Intro to AI

First, we saw about 87 students today, with three full time advisors.  We are beyond peak capacity right now and apologize sincerely for the long waits at dropins.  Here are a few registration notes that might be of interest.  On another note, we have some advising reinforcements coming online starting next week, so hopefully we can start assisting you faster in the near future.  More on that later.

REGISTRATION NOTES

1. The data science seminar for seniors, ChemE 599 is apparently being re-named to a different course number. Once they have it posted, they will alert our advising team and we will email all the senior students coded as data science to let them know how to register.  It will be offered in winter, so you don’t need to worry.  Just be patient and wait at this point.
2. Closed courses. We understand that there are a lot of closed courses already.  Here is what you need to do.
   • Try not to panic!!!
   • Sign up on the UW Notify system so you can learn if people drop
   • Understand that asking your friends to hoard courses for you is not helpful and not fair, please don’t do that
   • We will continue to monitor closed courses and attempt to add space when possible. Sometimes it means searching for new rooms, so these things take time.
   • On November 16th we’ll open the overload request form, that is a form you can fill out if you are still trying to get into a full CSE course.  We will try to give out space at that time based on priority such as graduating students, etc
   • We are going to do the absolute best we can to get everyone into courses.  We are growing the program and still struggling to get the size of courses at the right levels, so please be patient
   • Last May when students registered for fall they panicked as well, but by the start of the quarter, check out the course totals, most have room, so we are hopeful.
3. We’ve been hearing instances (5 now total and counting) of students who were dropped from the major for no known reason.  If you can’t register for an open CSE course, please check your major, if your major is not listed as Computer Science or Computer Engineering, send an email to ugrad-advisor@cs.uw.edu with your name, student number and what your  major is, and what it should be, and we’ll investigate
4. If you have a specialized registration issue and email ugrad-advisor about it, you are more likely to have your questions answered quickly if you include all the relevant information including your student number, full name and sln’s of courses in question.  At this point however we are NOT going to be overloading courses.
5. If you want to take a 500 level course as an undergraduate, this is what you do:
   
   •  If you are part of the 5th year masters program already, you should go to this form and submit your request.
   • If you are an undergraduate CSE Major without being admitted to the 5th year masters program, please email the instructor for permission. Once permission has been granted, forward to ugrad-advisor@cs.uw.edu with your name, student number, sln’s of all lecture/sections and a copy of the approval email
   • These courses are generally 400’s on steroids, you should not pursue this option lightly on a whim.

Thank you!

~CSE Advising

We are getting a lot of questions about when students register. If you are on an internship this quarter and are not registered for fall courses, your registration date probably won’t show up, but you should be able to register on the date listed here: https://www.washington.edu/students/reg/priorwi18.html

If you have a graduation application currently on file, or filed recently,  you should be able to register this Friday November 3rd.

CSE Advising

Thursday Nov. 2nd: CSE Grad School Info Session

Come learn about CSE’s Combined Bachelor’s/Master’s (BSMS) Program, the Professional Masters Evening Degree Program and/or about pursuing your PhD in CSE. The first part of the session will feature information about the BSMS program, followed by a short presentation on the Evening Degree, and the second half will go over general PhD admissions nuts and bolts and will feature a panel of CSE PhD students. You are welcome to attend one, two, or three parts of the session, come and go as you wish.

Thursday November 2nd, Sieg 134

4 -5:30 PM*

*4-4:30 5th Year Masters Program

*4:30-4:45 Professional Masters Evening Degree

*4:45-5:30 PhD