CSE Undergrad News

Ugrads,

Quick Reminder: Facebook office hours on right now until 1pm today in atrium! Come talk to Facebook employees and recruiters about working/interning at facebook. Resume is required for entry, but there will be free food and drink.

Chris

Every year, Google searches the globe looking for highly technical, passionate, and motivated new grads for the Google Associate Product Manager program. The APM program is an elite two-year rotational program, consisting of two one-year rotations, designed for top recent computer science graduates who are interested in exploring product development and leadership opportunities. This select group is given access to unparalleled resources within Google to define new products, work closely with creative and prolific engineers, interact with executives to influence the business, and develop both personally and professionally.

For more information about the role please see: http://www.google.com/jobs/students/us/technical/associate-product-manager-new-grad-north-america-locations/

What: Coffee Chat with a Google APM!
Where: Paul G. Allen Computer Science Building (details will be mailed out individually)
When: Friday, October 29th

Sounds great, how do I sign up?: Please submit your resume and transcripts to uw-apm-recruiting@google.com, by Wednesday, October 27th.  Since we have limited spots available, we will inform you by Thursday, October 28th if you’ve been selected for a coffee chat.

Hey CSE,

Lots is going on for the next couple of weeks!  Remember you can add http://www.cs.washington.edu/affiliates/studentoutreach.html to your Google calendar to stay in the loop!

Tech Talks: remember all will include some sort of swag, food, and internship/career information.

1.) Madrona Info Session

Tuesday October 19th, 530-730pm, CSE Atrium

A collection of venture-backed start up companies, click event calendar link for more details!

2.) Palantir Info Session

Wednesday October 20th, 600-730pm, CSE Atrium

Analysts, large data sets, Taco Del Mar, and iPad drawing?!

3.) Cisco Info Session

Tuesday, October 26th, 600-700pm, EE 125

“Welcome to the Human Network, Cisco is more than just routers.” There will be a FLIP Video Raffle.

4.) CSE Industrial Affiliates Recruiting Fair

Thursday, October 28th, 9am-3pm, CSE Atrium

Mark your calendars.  This is hands down the largest recruitment event of the year!  More than 30 companies will be present! Check them out here:

http://www.cs.washington.edu/affiliates/meetings/recruit-co-1011.html

You will NOT want to miss this if you are remotely thinking about an internship  or full time employment.  Bring lots of resumes to hand out. Come looking sharp and eager to learn about who’s who in the tech world. It will be a very exciting day!

In the distant future…

5.) ACM Fall Fest

Friday November 5th, 500-900pm, CSE Atrium

“Remember, remember, the 5th of November…”  Mark your calendar.  This is ACMs major social event of Fall Quarter.  Look for posters to go up and more details to come.  There will be food, games, music, and socializing.

6.) ACM Research Night

Wednesday, November 10th, 430-700pm, CSE Atrium

A fun night to see what exciting research projects undergraduates are working on in the department.  There will be a short talk, Q&A panel, poster session, refreshments, and opportunities to get involved in research for the following quarter.  This is a great opportunity to take part in a serious project long before summer comes around.

That’s all folks!  (for now) I apologize in advance if my overuse of exclamation marks, !!!!!’s, bothers you!

Chris Raastad

ACM Internal Relations

Hey CSE!

I’m sure you are enjoying all the fabulous events this week.  Tomorrow is the first Smoothie Day of the quarter!

Smoothie Day, CSE Atrium, 3:20-4:30 pm

Come hang out with fellow majors and random Atrium bystanders for a smooth chill session of cheap fruity goodness!  Stop by any time, don’t forget to bring 2$!!!

Chris Raastad

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A reminder that all CSE undergrads (only) are strongly encouraged to attend our Resume Workshop next Tuesday, October 12 from 3:00-6:00 pm in the Allen Center Atrium.

This year’s outstanding panel of reviewers includes representatives from Amazon, Facebook, Google, Isilon, Microsoft, and whitepages.  In many cases the reviewers will be the very HR folks and engineers who will be making the hiring decisions  for internships and full-time positions–so it’s a chance go beyond the resume guides and get solid info directly from the source!

No rsvp is needed.  Students can arrive anytime between 3:00 and 5:30.  Bring along 4 or 5 resume copies if at all possible.  A rough draft will also work.  At minimum, bring a bulleted list of accomplishments to share with the individual reviewers so they can  guide you toward a first draft.

Please contact Dave Rispoli at rispoli@cs.washington.edu  for any additional details.

Hey all you CSE people,

Another tech talk today, its gonna rock! Free food, tshirts, more swag, and of course Internships and Jobs!!!

Tableau, TODAY, 5:30pm – 7:00pm, EEB 105

“How New Technology Is Helping Us Change the World.”

This little birdy tells me everything…

http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/ugrad/current/.

Enjoy the sunshine!

Chris Raastad — ACM SPAMelot

We strongly urge all CSE undergrads who might be looking for employment after earning their degree (are we leaving anyone out?) to attend our CSE Autumn Career Events.

Not only do these four events feature vital employment information for all future CSE job seekers, but most will be presented by the high-tech hiring managers who eventually will be making the decisions on your applications!

Event 1: Employer Panel

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 6, 2010 5:30-6:30pm

Place: EE125

Our first career event of autumn will provide an overview of the job search process from both the CSE student and employer perspective.  No reservations are necessary, but do come prepared with you questions!  Our outstanding panelists include:

Tam Armstrong, CSE alum, Animation Engineer for Bungie (where they just shipped Halo: Reach).  Tam knows high-tech employment from all sides and will give you the inside scoop on how to go from the CSE classroom to your dream job.

Brian Ma, CSE alum and grizzled veteran of Seattle-area startups—Co-founder of  PriceYeti.com, a cool new startup. Brian will let you in on how you can use smaller companies to build your career and/or retire early.

Joni Kimzey, hiring manager for Tableau Software, one of the nation’s 500 fastest growing tech companies will give you vital guidance from the high-tech employer perspective.

A Microsoft Representative (To be Determined). We can’t leave out these guys!  Each year we try to include a CSE alum who is in a key position with our largest local high-tech employer.

Dawn Wiggin, UW College of Engineering Co-op Office.  Internships can be an important step on the path to full time employment.  Dawn will provide some key advice on how internships might fit for you.

The panel is meant to be general — while the company representatives may provide some level of self-promotion, their focus will be on providing a peek inside the recruiting process so our students will know how to best prepare. In other words you should attend even if you are not considering employment at the specific companies represented.  You should also attend this event even if you won’t be considering full time employment in the next year or more.  Early planning is the best way to get from A to B!

Our moderator will be Dave Rispoli rispoli@cs.washington.edu , the PMP adviser. Dave is also assisting with our other ugrad career events.  He’s the best point of contact for any questions about these events.

The additional Autumn Career Events:

Event: Resume Review Roundtable Workshop

Date/Time: Tuesday, October 12; 3:00-6:00 pm

Place: CSE Atrium

In this workshop, HR reps, recruiters and engineers sit with small groups of CSE students to critique resumes, offer suggestions, and help refine the way you present yourself on paper.

Event: Technical Interview Coaching

Date/Time: Monday, October 18; 3:30-5:30 pm

Place: CSE Atrium

This workshop helps CSE juniors and seniors prepare for technical interviews.

Event: Mock Technical Interviews

Date/Time: Monday, November 1; 6:00-8:15 pm

Place: Career Center

CSE students participate in a one-on-one simulated interview with local high-tech software developers and engineers.

Good Morning!

On behalf of the Association of Computing Machinery welcome back!!!  We hope you guys are pumped for the new academic year and had awesome productive summers of study, research, internships and travel.  If you are new to the department the ACM is a department run organization responsible for organizing awesome social, academic, and career development events to benefit you, the CS or CSE student.

Events

Here is a summary of approaching events!

Tech Talks — These are information and recruiting sessions put on by companies (always free food and prizes).  Fall quarter is loaded! Imagine Cup, Tableau, Microsoft, and Google are coming up in the next two weeks! Check out http://www.cs.washington.edu/affiliates/studentoutreach.html for the detailed schedule.

Welcome Event for New Majors — Monday October 4th.  A call for mentors will go out soon.  We hope all new students can make it!

Smoothie Day — will make its return on October 15th, stay tuned!

Career Fair — is huge!!! Every company will be there. Thursday October 28, 9am – 3pm in Atrium.

Fall Fest — largest social event of quarter will be in late october early November.

002 and 006 Rearrangent

You will notice some significant changes to layout of the two popular undergraduate labs.  Don’t be alarmed, the department implemented the new design based on lab usage statistics (most noteworthy change, the addition of mobile work stations). We know change (even small) can be difficult, but we encourage you to give the new arrangements a try and we will seek out comments and feedback later in the quarter.

Coke Closet

The beloved coke closet will make its return within the first few weeks of the quarter! Stay tuned and don’t steal!!!

ACM Website

Expect some significant changes in the next few weeks to update the usability and relevance of the ACM website http://flatline.cs.washington.edu/orgs/acm/ .  We hope to make the website a more central source of information for ACM events.

CSE T-shirts

You will see cat and man shirts being displayed around the department.  We will be selling these and older versions at the ACM welcome event or you can contact an ACM officer with details.

Enjoy the first day of classes!

Chris Raaastad

ACM Internal Relations (aka ACM Spambot)

The UW Student Engineering Council (SEC) is having its End-of Year Event this Tuesday, May 25^th at 5pm in the electrical engineering building room EEB 403 on the 4th floor (room 403 is in the northwest corner of the building). The event is free and is open to all engineering students, faculty and staff. Come to this event if you have any thoughts about becoming a student officer next year for any organization or you are interested in learning more about SEC and would like to participate from time to time without necessarily being a student officer.

We will be nominating board members, introducing SEC representatives who represent their respective student engineering organizations, introducing our new adviser, and announcing the new SEC website with a complete student engineering organization directory and inclusive Google calendar created by volunteers for the benefit of all student engineering organizations here at UW. And to top the evening off, we will have Susannah Malarkey the Executive Director of the Washington State Technology Alliance be our guest speaker following our end-of-year meeting.

Events Agenda:

5:00pm – 5:15pm Sign-in, Introductions, and food and refreshments

5:15pm – 6pm SEC meeting – unveiling of new website, SEC board member nominations

6pm – 6:40pm Technology Alliance Guest Speaker

6:40pm – 6:50pm Q & A

6:50pm – 7:00pm Reception/refreshments

I hope to see you there,

Jason

Jason B. Salazar

2009-2010 Industry Relations Lead,

Emerging Leaders in Engineering Program

Founder, UW-Student Engineering Council

jason.salazar2010@gmail.com

The Student Engineering Council (SEC) was founded this year in association with the UW Emerging Leaders in Engineering Program. We are an interdisciplinary student run council that consists of representatives from student engineering organizations across the College of Engineering. SEC’s mission is to:

1)      Build upon a widely supported effort to improve interdisciplinary communication within the College of Engineering.

2)      Facilitate student opportunities in industry, academia and the greater engineering community.

3)      Provide a volunteer support network between our student organizations.

4)      Enhance the quality and quantity of opportunities students and advisers facilitate in support of our professional and technical development.

5)      Increase participation in our student engineering organizations by providing a resource to pre-engineering students and undergraduates.

6)      Build upon our community as engineering students and future alumni of the UW College of Engineering.

The UW Student Engineering Council (SEC) is having its End-of Year Event this Tuesday, May 25th at 5pm in the electrical engineering building room EEB 403 on the 4th floor (room 403 is in the northwest corner of the building).  The event is free and is open to all engineering students, faculty and staff.  Come to this event if you have any thoughts about becoming a student officer next year for any organization or you are interested in learning more about SEC and would like to participate from time to time without necessarily being a student officer.

We will be nominating board members, introducing SEC representatives who represent their respective student engineering organizations, introducing our new adviser, and announcing the new SEC website with a complete student engineering organization directory and inclusive Google calendar created by volunteers for the benefit of all student engineering organizations here at UW. And to top the evening off, we will have Susannah Malarkey the Executive Director of the Washington State Technology Alliance be our guest speaker following our end-of-year meeting.

Events Agenda:
5:00pm – 5:15pm Sign-in, Introductions, and food and refreshments
5:15pm – 6pm SEC meeting – unveiling of new website, SEC board member nominations
6pm – 6:40pm Technology Alliance Guest Speaker
6:40pm – 6:50pm Q & A
6:50pm – 7:00pm Reception/refreshments

I hope to see you there,
Jason

Jason B. Salazar
2009-2010 Industry Relations Lead,
Emerging Leaders in Engineering Program
Founder, UW-Student Engineering Council
jason.salazar2010@gmail.com

The Student Engineering Council (SEC) was founded this year in association with the UW Emerging Leaders in Engineering Program. We are an interdisciplinary student run council that consists of representatives from student engineering organizations across the College of Engineering. SEC’s mission is to:
1)      Build upon a widely supported effort to improve interdisciplinary communication within the College of Engineering.
2)      Facilitate student opportunities in industry, academia and the greater engineering community.
3)      Provide a volunteer support network between our student organizations.
4)      Enhance the quality and quantity of opportunities students and advisers facilitate in support of our professional and technical development.
5)      Increase participation in our student engineering organizations by providing a resource to pre-engineering students and undergraduates.
6)      Build upon our community as engineering students and future alumni of the UW College of Engineering.