CSE Undergrad News

From Professor Eve Riskin:

I will be leading a seminar ENGR 498A Preparing for Graduate Education
in Engineering spring quarter on preparing for grad school.  It meets
Tuesdays at 1:30 — 2:20 PM in Loew 222.  The grading is CR/NC.

If you’re interested in grad school, sign up now.  Space is limited
but right now, there are a bunch of spots open.

13945 ENGR   498  A     SPECIAL TOPICS     7  30  30  23    0  T     0130-0220

We will cover topics such as:

* Why go to graduate school in Engineering

* Getting your graduate degree paid for

* Apply to graduate school

* Graduate student life and picking an adviser

* The importance of undergraduate research

* How outreach can strengthen a fellowship application

* Choosing a university for graduate school

* Practical advice on research statements

Students will get an opportunity to draft a research statement and get
it peer-reviewed during the seminar.

Eve Riskin

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Eve A. Riskin
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Associate Dean of Diversity and Access
College of Engineering
University of Washington

Tel:  (206) 685-2313            Fax:  (206) 543-3842

Box 352180
Univ. of Washington
Seattle, WA  98195-2180         email:  riskin@u.washington.edu
http://dcl.ee.washington.edu/
http://www.engr.washington.edu/advance/

FROM : Payman Arabshahi <payman@ee.washington.edu>

CSE students,

EE 420 (Design in Communications) has been completely revamped since Spring 2013. The course focuses on providing students with hands-on experience in design and implementation of modern digital communication systems using software-defined radio (SDR) technology.

Course will be heavily lab oriented. In addition to laboratory modules, a final course project will synthesize topics covered in class.

Course topics include software-defined radio architectures and implementations, digital signaling and data transmission analysis in noise, digital receiver structures (matched filtering, correlation), multicarrier communication techniques, radio frequency spectrum sensing and identification (energy detection, matched filtering), and fundamentals of radio resource management.

If this is the first time you’ve heard about SDR, take a look here: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/how-software-defined-radio-could-revolutionize-wireless/

We will be using the Ettus Research USRP N210 platform together with the XCVR2450 daughterboard in the lab modules:
https://www.ettus.com/product/details/UN210-KIT
https://www.ettus.com/product/details/XCVR2450

And here is the course textbook:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1608075257

We have 14 complete hardware kits, and so can only take 14 students working in groups of two. If you are interested, please sign up now. This will be an exciting class!

Class will be offered MW 09:30 – 10:50 and T 09:30-10:20 in EEB 026.

Contact the instructor for permission to register as CSE students won’t be able to register on their own. The email is above.

Cheers,

Payman Arabshahi
Associate Professor, Electrical Eng.
Principal Scientist, Applied Physics Lab
University of Washington
http://faculty.washington.edu/paymana

A couple more updates.

First, CSE 477 is open for CS majors too, so feel free to register if you want that capstone. EE’s will start taking the space in there soon.  The only prerequisite for 477 is actually CSE 466, so if you need an add code, let me know.

Stat 391 does not officially have CSE 312 as a prerequisites, but it is a new prerequisite to the course.  The instructor this spring prefers that all Stat 391 students have CSE 312 completed or something similar.  You can talk with the instructor directly if you have additional questions.

There are two more changes:

CSE 461 has changed to  MW 2:30-3:50 (it’s was 3:30-4:50).

CSE 431 will be moving to 2:30-3:30 MWF

Law Seminar Added: there will be a 2 credit seminar added either Wed or Thurs 3:30-5:20PM, hopefully by early next week

This course will provide a survey of intellectual property law for a technical (non-legal) audience, with a primary focus on patent law. The purpose of the course is to assist engineers and scientists in navigating and utilizing various intellectual property regimes effectively in the business context. In the patent realm, topics will include patent preparation and prosecution, patent claim interpretation, and assessing patent validity and infringement. Other topics include copyright (e.g., open source licensing issues), trademark, and trade secret law. The course will also endeavor to balance the discussion of practical legal considerations with broader policy questions (e.g., should certain subject matter be off limits for patenting?, the relationship between innovation and IP, approaches to patent reform, recent Supreme Court patent law rulings, etc.). Joint with CSE 590 T (SPR 2015).

~CSE Advising

Okay, as far as I can tell, we’ve notified everyone who was waiting to hear back about a course. For the most part, we were able to get folks in, with a few exceptions. Fortunately, it won’t effect anyone’s graduation plans. Thank you all for being helpful and flexible.  If you did NOT hear back from us, please first check your schedule, it’s possible it was added to your account.

Second, check your spam, I sent a lot of blind CC’s so you may not have caught it.

Third, if you’re still waiting to hear back, please email me directly with your full name, student number and the class number you are waiting to hear about.

Crystal

There is still room left in the synthetic biology course this winter. : See the flyer for more details.

~CSE Advising

FYI, due to low enrollment over the last few years, CSE 332 may not be offered this spring quarter.  If you hoped to take CSE 332 before a summer internship, please plan to arrange your schedule to take 332 this winter.  We still have quite a few open spaces right now.

If you have concerns or questions about how to schedule your courses due to this possible change, I encourage you to contact an individual advisor, or write to ugrad-advisor@cs.washington.edu and we’ll help you map out a plan.  It’s helpful if you already have a rough draft in your MyPlan: https://depts.washington.edu/myplan/ before you contact us about scheduling.

~CSE Advising

We are happy to announce that UW will again be participating in the Facebook Open Academy (a.k.a. Hacking for Credit) in Winter/Spring 2015.  This class presents a unique opportunity for students to gain experience with open source projects and software development.  Facebook has hand-picked important open source projects to which students will contribute and has chosen select engineers who will act as mentors to guide students through the development process.  We expect that students will learn a lot in this class and encourage any interested students to apply.  In particular, prior experience contributing to open-source software projects is NOT required.

For more information please see the course website at http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse495/15wi/.  That site includes links to a preliminary list of open source projects and to a catalyst form you should fill out if you are interested in participating in the class.

Course will meet weekly on Thursdays at approximately 4:30PM (time could change depending on who take the course)

If admitted to the course, you’ll be signed up for 2 credits in winter and 2 credits in spring.

The curse number is 495 and it will be graded, so you may use this towards the extra, CSE Senior Electives (but not as a Core Course).

~Hal Perkins – instructor

~CSE Advising