CSE Undergrad News

CSE majors! If you’re interested in graphics or animation, want to learn more about how to do research, or just need 3 more interesting credits for winter, sign up for Animation Research Seminar (CSE 464 – Section B).

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

CSE 490E: Ethics, Society, and Computers
Winter 2018

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Chief explorer: Jared Moore
Email: jlcmoore@cs.washington.edu
Office Hours: By appointment only

CSE 490E syllabus

Note: Graded credit/no credit so will not apply to CSE senior electives, senior electives must be graded

Description:
This course will explore computing technologies as they pertain to society along ethical dimensions. In particular, it will examine what it means to be an ethical computer scientist and the societal implications of computer technology. Each week, we’ll read about a different topic or case study (e.g. privacy) and discuss the related quandaries in class. This course will afford a moment to look up from the minutia of computer science – algorithmic complexity, fitting models, appropriate use of MVC, etc. – to examine the impact of technology on society at large.

Objectives:This course will provide a space and the impetus for exploration of ethical issues in computer science. The point of this class is not for the dictation of what is ethical (or the contrary), but rather for students to play a role in critically exploring technology. At the end of this course, students will have gained a broader conception of dilemmas in current computing technologies and will have a stronger framework with which to develop their own ethical responsibilities.

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

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 10:07 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Winter Quarter entrepreneurship course
To: “cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu” <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Grads <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, cs-pmp@cs.washington.edu
Cc: Greg Gottesman <greg@pioneersquarelabs.com>

The application page for Greg Gottesman’s Winter Quarter
entrepreneurship course is now open. Please check out the course
website, decide if you’re willing to commit, and if so, fill out the
application.

https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse599a1/18wi/
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For students pursuing the Data Science option, we’ve been getting a lot of questions around the seminar requirement. Here is a current update since the one credit CSE course is not available this year.

CSE Advising

CSE490D: 13321 CSE    490  D     SPECIAL TOPICS C   W    0230-0420

2 credits, open to all CSE majors

In this seminar we consider the complex relationship between people with disabilities and technology from the lens of designers and engineers. The course primarily addresses the global issue of equal access to public spaces and to information and communications technology (ICT) by persons with disabilities. We examine the ways in which technology can be both assistive and a potential barrier for diverse populations, and in that context we will review a host of devices and solutions created to improve quality of life, function and independence for people with disabilities. Additionally, we will explore the role of technology designers and engineers in designing for equity in a technology-laden society, and therein explore the fundamental connection between critical social theory and participatory design. Students are asked to participate in class discussions about the readings, complete short assignments and present their ideas for technology innovations that embody all-inclusive design. This course will prepare students to pursue lead roles in participatory design teams in the context of Accessibility Capstone and Husky ADAPT VIP.

Here is a quick update on full CSE courses.  If you are a current CSE Major and trying to get into a full CSE course, please plan to attend the first day.  If you are unable to enroll by this Friday, the instructors will provide an overload form to fill out.  We already completed one round of early overloads (getting into full courses) and accommodated 51 students, so hopefully that will help ease the fall angst a bit.

As always let advising know if you have something of concern that has not been addressed.

Sincerely,

CSE Advising