CSE Undergrad News

CSE undergraduates (only!) who plan on engaging in technical interviews in the near future should sign up here for the Mock Technical Interview events to be held in the CSE advising offices the evenings of Wednesday, January 31 and Tuesday, February 6, 2018.  The 45 minute sessions begin at 6:00 pm, 6:45 pm, and 7:30 pm on both days.

At these events, technical interviewers from several of our industry affiliates will engage in abbreviated (30 minute) one-on-one mock technical interviews with students. The interviewers will provide feedback to the students during and after the interviews.  All students should plan on bringing a copy of their resume to the interviews.

This event has extremely limited space. It is geared first and foremost toward CSE students who plan to earn their degree before Autumn 2019.  The sign-up deadline is noon this Friday, January 26, so please submit your input quickly.  Slots will be filled in order of expected graduation from the pool of students who sign up prior to the deadline.

Students should sign-up for as many interview slots on the linked form as they are available for on either day to have the best chance of securing an interview.  Only one Winter Quarter interview (either on January 31 or on February 6) will be provided to each selected student.

Here is the overload request form for the first week of courses. This is for current CSE Majors trying to enroll in a CSE Major’s level course that is currently full or add code protected.

If you are wishing to get into a full CSE course, you must fill this out by 5pm tomorrow to be considered for a space.  You should also plan to attend the lecture of any course you are petitioning to overload into.

https://goo.gl/forms/L7dG4a9RYfJzucZ72

We will try to have final decisions out by Thursday evening.  If you previously petitioned for a course and were not admitted during the overload requests we did a few weeks ago, you should fill this new request form out to express that you are still interested in the course.

Thank you,

CSE Advising

From: Hank Levy <levy@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 12:30 PM
Subject:Exciting building milestones
To: ugrads@cs.washington.edu, vgrads@cs.washington.edu

Dear Allen School family,

I have some great news to share with you regarding our second building, the Bill & Melinda Gates Center, going up across the street.

First, we have reached the halfway point of construction with the “topping out,” a tradition among ironworkers that marks the placement of the final steel beam on a large building or other structure. At this point, our new building has reached its maximum height, and the construction crew is ready to begin work on the enclosure and interior. I am pleased to report that this puts us on track to complete work on schedule by the end of next year.

We also have achieved another important milestone: thanks to a gift of $15 million from Bill and Melinda Gates, we have officially concluded our building fundraising!  You may recall that around two dozen of their longtime friends and colleagues got together earlier this fall to support a naming gift in the couple’s honor. We are thrilled that Bill and Melinda themselves were inspired by our vision to help us across the finish line with their own generous gift.

As we have seen through their work with Microsoft and the Gates Foundation, Bill and Melinda are first and foremost driven to have an impact — on innovation, on people’s lives, and on society as a whole. The building will equip us to expand our impact on all three, with new labs, classrooms, offices, and collaboration spaces that will help us deliver an unparalleled experience to more students and continue pushing the boundaries of our field through research. But that requires more than bricks and mortar — now we have to fill that building with the people who will generate the breakthrough innovations of tomorrow.

Thanks to Bill and Melinda and the more than 300 individual and corporate donors who came together to support our building project, we can now turn our attention to the second phase of the Campaign for CSE: support for the faculty and students who make the Paul G. Allen School great.

As we begin this next phase, I want to give special thanks to Ed Lazowska, whose tireless efforts have enabled us to secure the resources that have transformed us into one of the preeminent computer science programs.  We are extremely grateful to Microsoft President Brad Smith who has provided tremendous leadership on behalf of our volunteer campaign committee. I also want to recognize Paul Beame, Tracy Erbeck, and Aaron Timss for their contributions to the design and construction efforts.  And thanks to each and every one of you for being a vital member of the Allen School community.

You can read more about our latest milestones in the UW News release.

Onward and upward!

Hank

The small, mid-year application for the BSMS program is now open: https://norfolk.cs.washington.edu/csem_app

Important Dates:

Nov 21: Application Opens

Dec 8th: Application Closes

Dec 9th – 18th: Recommendations from Faculty requested

Dec 19th: Applications begin review

Decisions sent by December 29th

The intended applicants for this round are students who are graduating this fall or winter quarter who were caught off guard by changes to the program that were announced late last year – namely, that you must apply for the program before you have graduated from the undergraduate program. This will be a very small, targeted application cycle. We will likely admit only 1-5 students.

If you are graduating in spring 2018 or later, you may apply during this application cycle, but this is not the intention of this round. Most students graduating this June should have applied to the BSMS program last May, as the ideal time to apply is approximately one year before you finish your undergraduate degree.  For students who are graduating this spring quarter or later who wish to apply, you can reach out to Jenifer and me through the vgrad-advisor@cs.uw.edu email with questions.

The details on the BSMS webpages still reference the spring admission cycle because this is a special, one time opening.

Thank you,

Jenifer and Crystal

BSMS Advising Team

Dear CSE Ugrad Students,

Dear Student,

The Computing Research Association (CRA) is interested in career development among students in computing fields. They would like to hear about your experiences as a student, as well as your plans for the future. To that end, I encourage you to complete their brief survey, which will take no more than 20 minutes to complete.

Should you decide to complete the survey, you will be entered into a raffle for a $100 gift card to Amazon!

***If you have already been contacted by the CRA to complete this survey, please disregard this message.***

If you are interested in completing the survey, please click the link below, or copy and
paste the URL into your internet browser:
https://cerp.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3UH7q6TmdZ8YRPD

The survey is being conducted by the CRA’s Center for Evaluating the Research Pipeline (CERP). For more information on CERP, please visit their website: http://cra.org/cerp/.

Many thanks in advance!

Thank you!

~CSE Advising

Hey everyone,

The first lunch with the chair will be tomorrow, Thursday, from noon to 1pm in the Gates Commons (room 691 of the Allen Center).  Come join the Director of the Allen School to hear about what’s new in CSE and to voice any appreciation or concerns you may have with life in the Allen Center.

Pizza is on the menu. This event is for current majors only.

CSE Advising