CSE Undergrad News

Just a quick ping on this, we had 24 responses, but if anyone else has any other comments about your recruiting experience with companies, please let us know. It’s good for us to give both positive and negative feedback.

The CSE dept. is interested in hearing your feedback on company recruiting behavior this year. We’ve heard both good and bad, and would like to capture this in a survey so we can give generalized feedback to the companies to help improve the process in the future.  If you are willing to share your experiences, please fill out this brief survey.

If you prefer to come in to chat with us in person, please feel free to come to dropins, or make an appointment.  For the in person meetings, however,  you might want to wait until registration calms down in a couple of weeks, as dropins are pretty crazy busy right now. Please gives us feedback before you leave for spring break.

Survey: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/cseadv/261001

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From: Paul Beame <beame@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:09 AM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Opportunity to provide input on planning for CSE 2 building: Monday March 16, 10:30am
To: cs-ugrads – Mailing List <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>
Cc: ugrad-advisor – Email Alias <ugrad-advisor@cs.washington.edu>

As you likely are aware, the department and university are in the early
stages of planning for an additional CSE building that will include
classrooms and very significantly enhanced undergraduate spaces, new
space for advising,  as well as allowing for significant growth in
everything we do.    This will augment, but not replace, the bulk of our
current undergraduate spaces in the Allen Center, though we will leave
Sieg Hall behind.

This Monday, March 16 at 10:30am-12 in the Gates Commons, CSE691, there
will be an opportunity for you to give us feedback about our current
space and about what you think will be important characteristics for the
new building:

Some things to think about:

General-purpose computing and other general-purpose spaces:
–   What types of general-purpose (computing) spaces will best
support you and your work?   How do you think that will change for
students in the future?
–   What do you think the balance should be between structured
and unstructured computing environments?
–   What works or doesn’t about our current general computing
labs?    What aspects would you keep?   How would you change them?   Are
they the right size?

Undergraduate-focused space beyond general-purpose computing.
–    What additional support/amenity spaces do you think are
important?     (We have some ideas based on what you have told us before
but would like to get the input from you.)
–     There other current special-purpose things we do, from
capstones to on-going group activities that we will support in the new
building.  What characteristics should the spaces that support these have?
–     What other kinds of spaces do you think we need?

What good examples do you know of spaces for any of the above that you’d
like to see more of?

Are there any other aspects of the building that you’d like to give
input on?

Thanks,

Paul Beame

P.S.   While group discussions seem particularly effective at bringing
out good ideas, if you can’t make it to the meeting we will also put up
a Catalyst survey.    Details to follow.

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From: Jason Howe <jhowe@cs.washington.edu>

Date: Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 5:16 PM

Subject: [Cs-ugrads] GitLab Upgrade Monday Morning

To: Researchers <researchers@cs.washington.edu>, cs-grads <cs-grads-urgent@cs.washington.edu>, vgrads <vgrads@cs.washington.edu>, cs-ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>, cs-staff <cs-staff@cs.washington.edu>

Greetings All, The GitLab service will be unavailable Monday, the 9th of March morning in order to perform a software upgrade. We will be upgrading to GitLab 7.8.1 from 7.4.1 which includes a range of back-end fixes, API features as well as host of UI improvements to make the site more user friendly. We will start the upgrade process at 8:00 am and expect it to be complete by 9:00 am. If interested, feel free to checkout the GitLab changelog for more details: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/CHANGELOG

Best, Jason —

Jason Howe

Software Engineer, Web Applications

University of Washington CSE

Your fellow students took time to put together this etiquette guide for CSE Tech Talks.  These are all quite reasonable requests, please read through this carefully.

Remember that you are representing CSE when you attend talks like these and we want companies to come away with a positive impression of our students being engaged and thoughtful. (Versus entitled or greedy).
Subject: CSE Tech Talk Etiquette
To:  CSE Ugrads

Once again, we know there are a lot of full courses out there.  We are working hard to find larger rooms for some courses, and others will balance out.  If you look at the schedule now for winter, you’ll see that things worked out. There are only 3 or 4 courses that are still listed as full or overloaded for winter.  Everyone panics, they hoard courses, then they don’t understand why the courses all fill up.  You should definitely try to register for any course that is full just so we know who is trying, also make sure to sign up on the UW notify tools so you can be alerted when/if space is added.

Showing up to dropins to request an add code for a full course will not get you any where, sadly, we just can’t overload courses right now.  As things calm down over the next few weeks, we’ll get folks in to what they need, but it takes some patience. Here are the policies on full courses so you know what to expect.

Also note the 1 credit intellectual property law seminar is now open, CSE 490T.

http://www.cs.washington.edu/students/ugrad/before_you_register#major

Please do not contact faculty directly. CSE advisors manage overload requests for 300- and 400-level majors classes (i.e., those open only to CS or CE majors) during the first week of the quarter.  Here are actions you can take if desired classes are full:

1. Attempt to register for the full course on MyUW. This will not put you on a wait list, but it does tell us how many people attempted to get into a course and were denied admission due to space.
2. Continue watching the time schedule for an open space. Also consider other courses you can take and register for them.
3. If you cannot enroll before the start of the quarter, plan to attend class. During the first few days of the quarter, the instructor will make a paper sign-in sheet available to students who still need to register. At the end of the first week, instructors will give out add codes if there is room in the course to overload.
4. If you have trouble registering due to prerequisites, contact an advisor for assistance.
5. If you need an advisor’s help registering, please include all relevant information, your request will be handled a lot faster if you include: full name, student number and all schedule line numbers and course numbers.

With respect to non-CSE courses, the Gateway Center for Undergrad Advising provides tips and specific departmental information for getting into closed courses. For most courses, checking the time schedule for openings is your best chance of getting a space.

Winter Affiliates recruiting fair is today (Wed) and Thursday.  We expect to have a lot of people coming through the building…..as such, please remember to keep your office doors closed and locked when there isn’t anybody in the room.  Keep your portables out of sight and locked away!

Thanks-

Tracy Erbeck

Facilities Manager

Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington

206.543.9264

Just a reminder, if you want to learn about talks, you should sign up for the talks list, we generally won’t post these advertisements here.

http://www.cs.washington.edu/events/colloquia

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From: Info about upcoming UW CSE Colloquia <talks@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 9:26 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Two talks by Jon Kleinberg
To: cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu

Hey everyone,

I hope you’ve all had a good break and are enjoying your last few days of relaxation.   I wanted to briefly let you know about a couple of changes in your advising team. Tina Donahue has taken a job outside of UW, so we bid her farewell a few weeks ago.  We have hired another advisor to join us for the next 6 months, her name is Patsy Wosepka.  She has been an advisor around UW for many years and will be helping us with prospective student questions for the most part.  In late spring we’ll hire for a permanent replacement to Tina’s position.

Raven, Jenifer, Pim and I are all still here and will be welcoming you back next week.

Sincerely,

Crystal

Crystal Eney
Director of Student Services
Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington – Seattle

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