CSE Undergrad News

Last call: Join CSE’s K-12 outreach team, and help us introduce computer science to younger students! The application closes Tuesday 10/18 at 5pm. If you have questions, email Outreach@cs.washington.edu

CSE Ambassadors are representatives of our department in our K-12 outreach and recruitment efforts. They work on all aspects of CSE outreach to younger students, from developing and teaching workshops to leading tours and performing CSE demonstrations.

Responsibilities:
CSE Ambassadors will work together to develop, test, and refine activities and workshops for visiting K-12 students. They will also help recruit volunteers, and help manage booths at outreach events such as the Computing Open House and Engineering Discovery Days. In addition, Ambassadors will help to lead tours, and may be asked to perform other outreach-related duties.

Qualifications:
-CSE student in good academic standing.
-Good communication skills
-Good teamworking skills
-Enthusiasm for working with younger students
-Ability to work on a varied schedule including some weekends

Hours per week vary based on current outreach activities. Ambassadors may work 10-15 hours per week during busy periods, and will work a minimum of 4 hours during weeks without any outreach events.

We are hiring some great students as CSE Ambassadors. Read the description below, then fill out the application. If you have questions, email Outreach@cs.washington.edu.

CSE Ambassadors act as representatives of our department in our K-12 outreach and recruitment efforts. They work on all aspects of CSE outreach to younger students, from developing and teaching workshops to leading tours and performing CSE demonstrations.

Responsibilities: 

CSE Ambassadors will work together to develop, test, and refine activities and workshops for visiting K-12 students. They will also help recruit volunteers, and help manage booths at outreach events such as the Computing Open House and Engineering Discovery Days. In addition, Ambassadors will help to lead tours, and may be asked to perform other outreach-related duties.

Qualifications:
-CSE student in good academic standing.
-Good communication skills
-Good teamworking skills
-Enthusiasm for working with younger students
-Ability to work on a varied schedule including some weekends

Hours per week vary based on current outreach activities. Ambassadors may work 10-15 hours per week during busy periods, and will work a minimum of 4 hours during weeks without any outreach events.

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From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 8:59 AM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Amazon commits $10M to CSE2 project

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If you want a fun summer job sharing your love of CS with younger students, apply to be a CSE summer camp counselor!

Link to Application

We’ll host 6 weeks of summer camps between late June and late August, leaving you with plenty of free time to enjoy your summer. Counselors work only during the camps (dates below). Depending on staffing, counselors may be able to work some camps and skip others. Counselors should have completed Intro Programming and be enthusiastic about working with middle school students. No prior counseling or teaching experience necessary.

All summer camp dates are:

• June 27 – July 1
• July 11- 15
• July 18 – 22
• July 25 – 29
• Aug 15-19
• Aug 22- 26

Questions: Contact jmunroe@cs.washington.edu

Reminder: The CSE Peer Advisor job application is open until Monday at 10am!

Full position description here

To apply: Complete the online application and send a resume to ravena@cs.uw.edu

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Hello, CSE majors! We’re mentally preparing for CSE’s first-ever Peer Advisor Jack to leave us in June, and we need to hire his replacement. If you’re interested in helping students and working with the CSE Advising team, consider applying: Full position description here.

In brief: The CSE Peer Advisor works 8-15 hours per week during the quarter. They counsel individual students, present information, and help with occasional events; meet with high school students (and families), current UW pre-major students, and CSE majors; and discuss academic planning, what computer science/engineering is, CSE admissions, how to prep for industry, and how to connect with opportunities.  Our Peer Advisor brings the incredibly valuable expertise of actually studying computer science or engineering — something none of our professional advisors has done. 🙂

Hiring details:

Application open now, closing Monday May 2, at 10am

Start date: Autumn quarter 2016
Training should take place in Spring and Summer 2016; exact dates are flexible  

To apply: Complete the online application here and send a resume to ravena@cs.uw.edu

Questions: Contact Raven about hiring logistics or advising in general, or contact current Peer Advisor Jack about his experience in this position.

Hello, CSE majors! We’re mentally preparing for CSE’s first-ever Peer Advisor Jack to leave us in June, and we need to hire his replacement. If you’re interested in helping students and working with the CSE Advising team, consider applying: Full position description here.

In brief: The CSE Peer Advisor works 8-15 hours per week during the quarter. They counsel individual students, present information, and help with occasional events; meet with high school students (and families), current UW pre-major students, and CSE majors; and discuss academic planning, what computer science/engineering is, CSE admissions, how to prep for industry, and how to connect with opportunities.  Our Peer Advisor brings the incredibly valuable expertise of actually studying computer science or engineering — something none of our professional advisors has done. 🙂

Hiring details:

Application open now, closing Monday May 2

Start date: Autumn quarter 2016
Training should take place in Spring and Summer 2016; exact dates are flexible  

To apply: Complete the online application here and send a resume to ravena@cs.uw.edu

Questions: Contact Raven about hiring logistics or advising in general, or contact current Peer Advisor Jack about his experience in this position.

Dear CSE undergrads,

Some of you might have seen or heard about a recent EE web page soliciting their students to sign a petition to change their department’s name to ECE — Electrical and Computer Engineering.

That page has now been taken down, but I’d just like to squash any rumors or confusion that may have resulted – in particular, we are not merging with EE and we will not be creating a joint EECS department at UW.

However, as you may already be aware, over the last few years we have been working jointly with EE on a set of computer engineering courses that would make sense for students in both departments, because students in both departments need basic computer engineering knowledge.   Many of you have already taken courses that have both CSE and EE students in them.    We have also done joint faculty hires between the two departments, which has been great for both of us.   Of course, we also have joint faculty with many other departments, including Statistics, Mathematics, Applied Math, and Genome Science.    Such joint hires have lots of advantages and we expect to see more in the future – it’s the way the world is going.

It is true that  EE has been thinking about a possible future name change in recognition of the fact that many of their students are already studying aspects of computer engineering (which is a broad field ranging from signals level hardware to high-level software systems, etc.).     The details have not been worked out at this point, but this would mainly be a change in name.    We are not changing our program, and EE will not dramatically change its program – they would simply change their name to reflect what they already teach.    When and if this idea is further along, we would certainly explain in advance what will happen and what it all means.

Most important, we do not expect that such a name change – if it does happen — would impact CSE students in any way or change “the world of CSE as you know it.”

Cheers,
Hank

Welcome to Spring, CSE undergrads! This is a reminder that CSE offers free tutoring. If you’d like to join a group, we can offer tutoring for most 300-level courses and some 400s. Read the details and sign up online:

http://www.cs.washington.edu/students/ugrad/tutoring

Tutoring is limited by how many grad students volunteer, and which classes they are comfortable tutoring. We can’t always accommodate all requests.  Tutoring is a commitment: please only register if you plan to meet with your group every week.

We’ll match groups at the start of next week, so sign up by Monday morning.

There will be a CSE undergraduate “pizza lunch with the chair” this week — Wednesday (March 2nd) — from 12 to 1 in the Gates Commons (691).   As usual, this is an opportunity to eat pizza, ask questions about the program, eat more pizza, and find out what’s going on.

This is for current CSE undergrads only.

See you there!

hank