CSE Undergrad News

We have just opened 4 more spaces in CSE 481 – robotics capstone this fall. First come first served.

Please note the prerequisites have not officially changed, but in a few weeks will be changing. You should have

the following background before adding any capstone course.

CSE 481 Capstone Software Design (5, max. 15) Students work in teams to design and

implement a software project involving multiple areas of the CSE curriculum. Emphasis is

placed on the development process itself, rather than on the product. Prerequisite: Instructor

permission or CSE 332; CSE 351; and either CSE 331 or CSE 352; recommended that students

have completed 300-level courses and several 400-level CSE courses.

If you have the above prerequisites and can not register, please email the ugrad-advisor@cs email with your student number and the sln of the course you want us to help you add.

CSE Advising

The CSE and EE departments are working closely together to develop a new set of courses that will open up courses in their respective departments to students from both areas.

If you are graduating this year, you should likely stick with CSE 352.  But, if you are graduating after this year, you should consider taking CSE 390C a new course this fall.  It’s 2 credits, and it will give you a great introduction to digital design.  There will be a follow-on course worth 5 credits by the EE dept., EE 371 offered in winter and spring of this year.  These two courses together will eventually replace CSE 352.

CSE 390C: 2 credits, prerequisite is CSE 311.

EE 371: 5 credits, prerequisite EE 205 or 215 and 390C or EE 271

The full details and rationale behind the changes are on the transition site below.

All CE students should read this, and any CS students who are interested in this material should as well. It’s good for you.

https://www.cs.washington.edu/students/ugrad/352_transition

Please email ugrad-advisor@cs if you have questions.

CSE Advising

If you are still looking for a VLPA course.
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From: <bgrace@u.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:08 PM
Subject: DXARTS 200 – Digital Art and New Media: History, Theory and Practice – Autumn 2014
To: enc5@uw.edu, jodene@u.washington.edu, gkmorell@uw.edu, Sawada@uw.edu, ugrad-advisor@cs.washington.edu, engradv@uw.edu, meadvise@uw.edu, bioladv@uw.edu, tfreng@u.washington.edu, Judith W Clark <jclark@uw.edu>, Laura E Todd <letodd@uw.edu>, “Ann E. Langford-Fuchs” <annf@uw.edu>, chid@uw.edu, uwdance@uw.edu, jenhoff@uw.edu, sryan@uw.edu

Hi all, we are trying to get the word out on Edward Shanken’s class this fall: DXART 200 (Digital Art and New Media: History, Theory & Practice).  There are no prerequisites and Freshman who are interested in taking this course can email me at <bgrace@uw.edu> for an add code.  This is a great opportunity for students who might need more VLPA credits.

Can you please forward this to your students?

DXARTS 200 Fall 2014
Digital Art and New Media – History, Theory and Practice

DXARTS 200 explores the history, theory and practice of art and electronic media as a ‘psychic dress rehearsal for the future’ that offers insight into possible trajectories of emerging cultural practices.

We will examine various technologies, such as electric light, xerography, rapid prototyping, digital computing, telecommunications, the Web, virtual reality, and GPS in terms of their specific characteristics as media. We will equally consider how technologies cannot be separated from the way people use them, the human behaviors that co-emerge with them, and the dreams (and fears) embedded in them.

Our survey of the field will include writings by curators, theorists, engineers, and artists, and will combine historic primary texts and current literature. In order to foreground conceptual continuities across media, periods, genres and forms, we will take a thematic approach to several topical streams:

Motion, Duration, Illumination
Coded Form and Electronic Production
Charged Environments
Networks, Surveillance, Culture Jamming
Bodies, Surrogates, Emergent Systems
Simulations and Simulacra
Exhibitions, Institutions, Communities, Collaborations

Individual examples and the streams they represent will be subjected to close readings. Students will acquire fluency with methods from art history, media-theory, and media-archaeology, and learn how to apply these methods, traditions, and principles to the analysis of visual culture.

Dr. Shanken’s lectures will be complemented by guest speakers, primarily artists, who will provide insight into the actual practice of digital and new media art. Students will have an opportunity to actively participate in discussion sections, which will reinforce and expand on course concepts. Throughout the course, students will undertake independent research to write weekly journal entries that will become part of the Art and Electronic Media Online Companion.

Note: the following links are for 2013. The general course will be the same in 2014 but details will be modified.
Syllabus
Schedule and Assignments
Readings
Resources
Lecture Notes
Final Exam (take home)
Professor
Edward A. Shanken
eshanken@uw.edu
Raitt Hall 207J
Office hours – TBA
Section Instructors
TBA
Course Location and Hours
Lecture T-TH, 3:00 – 4:50pm, CDH 109 (Condon Hall)

Sections :
AA 12:30-1:20 MGH 271
AB 1:30-2:20 MGH 254
AC 12:30-1:20 JHN 022
AD 2:30-3:20 MGH 242
AE 12:30-1:20 EEB 026
AF 3:30-4:20 EEB 026

This course can be found in the time schedule at:

http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/AUT2014/dxarts.html

Billie Grace, Administrator
DXARTS, University of Washington

Hello CSE undergrads!

First priority for capstone space is for CE majors and 5th year masters students, who need a capstone to graduate. CS students should still fill out the survey, and we’ll do the best we can depending on space.  

We will notify people of their capstone placement at the end of the first week in September. Students who get a spot in the fall capstone (Robotics) will also receive an add code. If you receive a spot in a capstone for Winter or Spring, we will send an add code during winter or spring registration. Extra spaces that are not assigned now, based on the pre-registration survey, will be opened during the regular registration time for each quarter.

EE418  pdf

update on EE 418 offering

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From: Stephanie Swanson <stepswan@uw.edu>

Good morning all!

I just spoke to the faculty member of this course who is willing to be flexible on the statistics pre-requisite.

If a student has had any type of statistics in their background – CSE 312 for CSE students, (they still need Math 308) then we can potentially give them an entry code.

Have them email me if they are interested in EE 418.  <stepswan@uw.edu>

Thanks and have a great Friday!

Stephanie Swanson
Academic Counselor | Undergraduate Programs

University of Washington |Department of Electrical Engineering
Paul Allen Center, AE144 | Box 352500
206.221.5782 (Phone) | 206.543.3842 (Fax)

EE Blog

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Interested in cryptography and network security? Check out EE 418.

A brief description is below:

“This course will serve as an introduction to the fundamental tools in cryptography and the protocols that enable its application to network and communication security. This course is an introduction to the basic theory and practice of cryptographic techniques used in computer security. We will cover topics such as encryption (secret-key and public-key), digital signatures, secure authentication, key management, cryptographic hashing, Internet voting systems, copyright protection, and ethics associated with the use of computer security.”

You can also review the master course description (kind of like a syllabus) at http://www.ee.washington.edu/academics/undergrad/abet/courses2/418mcd.htm

Sincerely,

Stephanie Swanson
Academic Counselor | Undergraduate Programs

University of Washington |Department of Electrical Engineering
Paul Allen Center, AE144 | Box 352500
206.221.5782 (Phone) | 206.543.3842 (Fax)

Hey, CSE majors! If you want to discuss your work from a different perspective (and add 2 credits to your schedule), sign up for Engineering for Social Justice in fall!

ENGR 202E, FALL 2014

ENGINEERING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE:

A CRITICAL SEMINAR ON THE POLITICS AND POSSIBILITIES OF ENGINEERING

Join us this fall quarter for an innovative new seminar! We’ll ask questions like:

• Is technology political? Who wins when a dam is built and who loses when an engineer designs a robot?

• What is the relationship between engineering, technology, society, ecology, and health?

• How can engineers work for social justice at the drawing board and in their daily lives?

• Who do we engineer for? Who defines the problems we solve? Whose work is considered engineering?

• Why are women and people of color still so underrepresented in engineering classrooms?

These questions and discussions of the context of the engineering discipline and the values under-girding the work of engineers are notably absent from most skill-focused engineering curricula. This seminar is intended to fill this gap by creating a space to reflect on the impact of engineers and technologies on society and to imagine a new kind of engineering and technological development for the common good.

The course is open to all levels and all majors, including non-engineers. Freshmen and sophomores considering engineering but with reservations are strongly encouraged to enroll. There are no prerequisites other than a desire to learn about the subject and participate actively in class. Course assignments will include readings, reflections, and conceptual designs.

Want to connect engineering and social justice?

Email Brian Park (bpark92@uw.edu) for more info!

ENGR 202 E | SLN#: 14250

Grading: 2 Credits | Credit/No Credit

Time: Tuesday, 2:30-4:20 pm | Room: Lowe 118

Facilitators: Brian Park and Eze Klarnet |

update on EE 418 offering

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Undergraduate Advisor
UW Computer Science & Engineering
http://www.cs.washington.edu/

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Stephanie Swanson <stepswan@uw.edu>

Good morning all!

I just spoke to the faculty member of this course who is willing to be flexible on the statistics pre-requisite.

If a student has had any type of statistics in their background – CSE 312 for CSE students, (they still need Math 308) then we can potentially give them an entry code.

Have them email me if they are interested in EE 418.

Thanks and have a great Friday!

Stephanie Swanson
Academic Counselor | Undergraduate Programs

University of Washington |Department of Electrical Engineering
Paul Allen Center, AE144 | Box 352500
206.221.5782 (Phone) | 206.543.3842 (Fax)

EE Blog

Follow us on:

******************************************************************************************************************

Interested in cryptography and network security? Check out EE 418.

A brief description is below:

“This course will serve as an introduction to the fundamental tools in cryptography and the protocols that enable its application to network and communication security. This course is an introduction to the basic theory and practice of cryptographic techniques used in computer security. We will cover topics such as encryption (secret-key and public-key), digital signatures, secure authentication, key management, cryptographic hashing, Internet voting systems, copyright protection, and ethics associated with the use of computer security.”

You can also review the master course description (kind of like a syllabus) at http://www.ee.washington.edu/academics/undergrad/abet/courses2/418mcd.htm

Sincerely,

Stephanie Swanson
Academic Counselor | Undergraduate Programs

University of Washington |Department of Electrical Engineering
Paul Allen Center, AE144 | Box 352500
206.221.5782 (Phone) | 206.543.3842 (Fax)

Emily Cox Pahnke is teaching two sections of ENTRE 370, Intro to Entrepreneurship and a special topics class, ENTRE 490, Grand Challenges for Entrepreneurs in Fall, and is looking for some assistance in getting the word out to interested students! J

ENTRE 370 is a great intro class, and like most other business classes is not open to non-business students until the first day of class. However both sections have about 20 spots left- so interested students should attend class on the first day and register themselves that day. If they do not meet the pre-requisites but are interested in taking the class, they can email Emily at eacox@uw.edu to request to be allowed in the section. She will then keep a list of approved students and get it over to me on the first day of classes, where students will be added based on space availability and on a first come first serve basis. Unlike most business courses, this is one class where the professor is allowing some flexibility in the pre-reqs (though this may not always be the case.)

ENTRE 490 -Grand Challenges for Entrepreneurs is open to all non-business students NOW who are sophomores and above– and will explore big problems and opportunities facing society, ranging from healthcare, education, and big data to poverty. The course examines how solutions to these massive challenges can be researched, validated, and implemented using such entrepreneurial skills as creativity, opportunity recognition, business models, pivoting, and execution. Entrepreneurship is both an individual and team activity. Therefore this course incorporates both individual and group efforts. Students form project teams early in the quarter and meet regularly to prepare for class discussion.

So if you have any students interested in creating their own businesses, or have the entrepreneurial spirit, please have them check these classes out. Also, Entre 370 counts for the ENTRE minor and may be a great way to help students figure out if they are interested in pursuing that. I am the Entre minor adviser so students can be referred to me for questions on the minor.

Please feel free to display or disperse the attached flyers and let me know if you have any questions!

Best,

Kristin Tocci │ Academic Counselor
Undergraduate Programs Office
Michael G. Foster School of Business
University of Washington
202 Dempsey Hall │ Box 353223
Seattle, WA 98195
Ph: 206.543.4352│ Fax: 206.616.8225

www.foster.washington.edu/undergrad

FYI, the prerequisites are changing (have changed in some cases) for the following courses,  please plan accordingly.

CSE 452: prereq is 451

CSE 427: prereq is 312 and 332