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Overview:

4/7 – Weekly Typed

4/10 – Programming Competition Prep

Weekly Typed

Monday, April 7, 2014; 6 – 7:30pm; CSE 203

Ty Overby will be giving a presentation / code-lab about Scala, his favorite Object Oriented and Functional programming language. You are encouraged to bring laptops to the talk to participate.

Join the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1421886981399509

Programming Competition Prep

Thursday, April 10, 2014; 4 – 5pm; CSE 403

“10 reasons why YOU should care about programming competitions”

Daniel Epstein (UW CSE, PhD Student) will cover why programming competitions will make you a better software developer and programmer, help you find a job, and most importantly, why they’re tons of fun! He’ll offer some tips for clever problem solving, go through problems from previous contests and their solutions, and demonstrate some common pitfalls.

Please fill out this interest survey: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/apacible/230992

Join the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/540277926089641

We important information on next year’s schedule. First, this summer we plan to offer:

CSE 142, 143, 333, 351, 421 and 456 (animation)

Next year’s VERY tentative teaching schedule, has now been posted for 2014-2015 as well.

http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/time-sched/

• 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?

INT SCI 401:  Integrated Sciences Practicum

INTSCI 401 provides an opportunity for students to obtain a service-based learning experience within informal or formal science education. It is a way for students to gain real world experience through a course framework that connects students to organizations and institutions in the local community.  Example practicum experiences include weekly visits to a science classroom, volunteer work at a science or natural history museum, or participation in a science education partnership with a local, regional, or national science research institution or agency.

INTSCI 401 is open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors with a strong interest in science education.  Students interested in obtaining an entry code should complete the survey at: http://tinyurl.com/intsci401spr14

Course:  INTSCI 401 – Integrated Sciences Practicum
Instructor:  Brian Buchwitz (Biology and Integrated Sciences)
Credits:  2
Days:  Wed.
Time:  3:00-4:50PM
SLN:  15259

Please feel free to contact Integrated Sciences Advising at what@uw.edu with any questions.

Course Opportunity Spring 2014—HCDE 496/596 (Directed Research: Developing a Toolkit to Remotely Assess the User Experience)

We are looking for students to help us further develop an open source software toolkit (Open WebLabUX) that allows web designers to remotely assess the effectiveness of different website designs by measuring users’ behaviors, perceptions, and comprehension when they interact with information online. You can earn course credit while helping us develop our toolkit.

Winter 2014 activities that would interest to CSE students include:

• PHP/MySQL coding of backend data collection infrastructure
• User interface coding (HTML/CSS, JavaScript/JQuery, PHP)
• Quality assurance testing

Individual students will drive the development and testing of a feature or set of features of the software, under supervision of a senior graduate student and faculty member.

The group will meet on Mondays and Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in Sieg 420.

Students can participate in this research group by enrolling for 2-5 credits (graded cr/no cr) in HCDE 496 (for undergraduate students) or HCDE 596 (for graduate students). Students are expected to spend, on average, three hours of effort per credit per week. Interested students should send a short email to Professor Jan Spyridakis (jansp@uw.edu) explaining their interest in the group and suggesting what software development strengths they could contribute to the group.

Thank you,

 Jan

Jan Spyridakis
Professor and Chair
Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering
University of Washington
Box 352315
Seattle, WA 98195
206-685-1557 (fax 206-543-8858)
http://www.hcde.uw.edu/jansp

This course is for seniors or graduate students, or juniors who fit the description below.

Crystal

PTC 504 2014 Poster

CoE Community,

Buddy Ratner and I are again presenting an introductory course in technology commercialization (BIOEN 504) this spring. Please see the attached poster and PASS IT ON to undergraduate, professional MS, and graduate students in your department/program. There are links in the document to videos helping describe the course in more detail. It would be great if EVERY student in the CoE could be contacted since this is a broad introduction to commercialization and entrepreneurship topics of interest to all engineers and computer scientists.

Although it has a BIOEN number, the course is intended for CoE students in all engineering and computer science disciplines. We have gotten good reviews for the course in the last few years and we have spiced it up a little with some new speakers. It is targeted to senior undergraduates and graduate students. It is ESPECIALLY valuable to professional MS students. We have noticed that junior undergraduates can keep up, but they should have some experience with design projects/internships. We’ve had a mixed student base the last two years, and that has worked very well since this is an introductory course and the work load is not heavy. It should be easy for most students to fit this into their busy schedules and they will gain a LOT from this exposure to a wide range of topics in technology commercialization and entrepreneurship.

Thanks,

Matt & Buddy

Matthew O’Donnell, Ph.D.

Professor, Bioengineering

Department of Bioengineering

Benjamin Hall Interdisciplinary Research Building

Room 514
Box 355013
616 NE Northlake Place
Seattle, WA 98105

206-465-2144

odonnel@uw.edu

http://depts.washington.edu/bioe/portfolio-items/odonnell/?portfolioID=3847

Just a few notes about spring registration.

1. We just mailed out the add codes for CSE 481D the Games Capstone for the CE students who were on the original list. If you are a CE major graduating this spring and need a capstone to graduate, you should email us ASAP. All others, (CS majors and non-graduating CE’s) same story as usual, go the first week and add your name to the overload list.  Please note that CSE 477 and 481K (Developing World) are open right now with lots of room and they are both great capstones.

2. We know there are a lot of full courses. Remember the process, TRY to add it even if it’s full since that will trigger the ‘unmet need’ totals for us so we can see where current demand. We can then try to adjust course limits over the next few weeks. We do plan to add more space, so use the UW tools available to notify you when space opens.

3. Keep in mind that generally we get everyone into what they need. The less you “hoard” courses the better.  We get really cranky when we hear about you ‘bartering’ for courses and registering for 5 when you know you will take 2. Please be considerate with your choices.

As usual, let us know if you have questions, but most of all, try not to panic. Hopefully by now you know your trusty advising team is here to help and we’ll get things worked out by the first week.

Sincerely,

Crystal, Raven, Jen and Tina

Course Opportunity Winter 2014—HCDE 496/596 (Directed Research: Developing a Toolkit to Remotely Assess the User Experience)

We are looking for CSE students to help us further develop an open source software toolkit (Open WebLabUX) that allows web designers to remotely assess the effectiveness of different website designs by measuring users’ behaviors, perceptions, and comprehension when they interact with information online. You can earn course credit while helping us develop our toolkit.

Winter 2014 activities that would interest to CSE students include:

• PHP/MySQL coding of backend data collection infrastructure
• User interface coding (HTML/CSS, JavaScript/JQuery, Drupal theming)
• Quality assurance testing

Individual students will drive the development and testing of a feature or set of features of the software, under supervision of a senior graduate student and faculty member.

Students can participate in this research group by enrolling for 2-5 credits (graded cr/no cr) in HCDE 496 (for undergraduate students) or HCDE 596 (for graduate students). Students are expected to spend, on average, three hours of effort per credit per week. We will meet weekly on Wednesdays from 3:30-5:00 in Sieg 420. Interested students should send a short email to Professor Jan Spyridakis (jansp@uw.edu) explaining their interest in the group and suggesting what software development strengths they could contribute to the group.

Thank you,

Jan

Jan Spyridakis
Professor and Chair
Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering
University of Washington
Box 352315
Seattle, WA 98195
206-685-1557 (fax 206-543-8858)
http://www.hcde.uw.edu/jansp

CSE 490 is having a culmination night where students display their business ideas and early models on Dec 2nd.  Attendees are given play investing money to contribute to businesses they are interested it.

12th Annual Hell Night for Student Entrepreneurs

6-8pmMonday, Dec 2, 2013
Anthony’s Forum
Dempsey Hall, Room 302

Brochure and more details [PDF]: HellNight