CSE Undergrad News

What:  Animation Capstone Series Information Sessions
When:  May 5th from 3-5 pm
May 6th from 3-5 pm
Where: Room 691 (Gates Commons) Paul G. Allen Center for CS&E

Refreshments will be served!

Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) and the Animation Research Labs invite you to an information session on the Animation Production undergraduate course sequence at UW Seattle. This sequence runs from Summer 2009 (A term) through Spring 2010. The Summer course, Story Design for Computer Animation, is highly recommended but optional.

The Animation Capstone culminates in a very professional and exciting collaboratively produced digital short film, similar in process to Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks productions.  Examples of previous award winning films produced in the dept will be shown and questions regarding applications and admission, etc. will be addressed. We look forward to seeing you there.

Application link: www.cs.washington.edu/research/ap
Packets of information, including the application form, are available in the CSE reception area.

Questions? Contact the instructor, Barbara Mones at mones@cs.washington.edu

Interested in what goes on in the world of Academic research? Have a particular interest in an area of CSE? Looking for something interesting and technical to do over the summer? Need to get started on that Honors thesis? Just have a feeling that research is a cool thing to do?

There are about about a million reasons to try out undergrad research. Whether you’re just curious or you’re already looking for a research project, you should check out RESEARCH NIGHT on TUESDAY APRIL 28th at 5PM. Magda Balazinska will give a brief talk about what it takes to get involved in undergrad research, we’ll have a Q&A panel on doing undergrad research, and finally we’ll have a poster session with CSE research groups looking to find undergrad researchers for Summer and Fall. Now’s your chance to find out everything you need to know!

See you on TUESDAY at 5PM.

Your Friendly ACM Officers

Tips for a Job Search in a Down Economy
Presentation by Christopher Milliken, Lockheed Martin

Tuesday April 28 3:30-4:30pm
Electrical Engineering Room 303

Chris Milliken, Campus Recruiting Representative from Lockheed Martin, will provide useful tips and insights for searching for a job in this economic climate. The workshop will focus on tips for your job search, how to market your existing experiences and skills, and ideas on what activities to get involved with outside the classroom that are of interest to employers. Learn how to stand out among the hundreds of other students looking for a job. Learn what employers are looking for in the ideal candidate. Learn what to do if you can’t find a co-op or an internship this summer.

We hope you can join us for this round-table discussion!

Dawn Wiggin
University of Washington
Engineering Advising and Diversity Center
Manager, Engineering Co-op Program;
Intel Research Experience for Undergraduates Program
Loew Hall 301, Box 352180
Seattle, WA 98195-2180
dwiggin@u.washington.edu
p: 206.543.8711 f: 206.616.8554
http://www.engr.washington.edu/industry/recruit/coop_industry/index.html

Interested in what goes on in the world of Academic research? Have a particular interest in an area of CSE? Looking for something interesting and technical to do over the summer? Need to get started on that Honors thesis? Just have a feeling that research is a cool thing to do?

There are about about a million reasons to try out undergrad research. Whether you’re just curious or you’re already looking for a research project, you should check out RESEARCH NIGHT on TUESDAY APRIL 28th at 5PM. Magda Balazinska will give a brief talk about what it takes to get involved in undergrad research, we’ll have a Q&A panel on doing undergrad research, and finally we’ll have a poster session with CSE research groups looking to find undergrad researchers for Summer and Fall. Now’s your chance to find out everything you need to know!

See you on TUESDAY at 5PM.

Your Friendly ACM Officers

Hi everyone,

TalentSpring will be hosting a tech talk tonight in the Atrium from 5:30 – 7:30.

This will be one of the last employers to come speak to us for the school year, so please take advantage of this great opportunity to get that summer internship you’ve been looking for.

See you there!

Your Friendly ACM Officers

Hi everyone,

This Friday, April 17th, we’re hosting a visit for the students we’ve admitted into the department through Direct Admission for this upcoming year. From 4-5:30pm, we’ll break the visitors into smaller groups and have them rotate through two demos and building tours in about half hour increments. The graphics and HCI labs are the demos, and we’re in need of ugrad students to lead the tours of the Allen Center.That means you!

We’re expecting about 75 people total (students and parents), and we’d like to have a lot of guides to make the tour groups even smaller and more personal during each of the rotations. If you’re interested in leading or co-leading tours from 4-5:30pm on Friday, please send me a quick email to sign up. I’ll provide the guides with more details and instructions before the event.

Anyone who helps out is also invited to join us for the reception at 5:30 in the Atrium.

Thanks!

Megan

Hey CSE majors! We have a number of K-12 student groups visiting during May, and would love your assistance in showcasing the wonders of CSE. Perhaps you have a fabulous research or Capstone project you can demo? Please look through the following activities and email your advisers about which you’re available to help with.  🙂

Northshore Middle-School Women in Science, Math, Engineering
May 1, 10am – noon
What we need: One half-hour activity, repeated three times for groups of 20 students. A research demo, fabulous presentation would be great!
* We also need a thirty-minute activity that could happen just once, from 10-10:30. If you  don’t have a demo or activity but want to help, you could give a brief tour for this.

TEC Access Middle School (a STEM-focused school)
May 7
What: A 30-minute to 1-hour activity presented twice, preferably something related to robotics.

Evergreen High School
When: May 20th, Sometime between 9-1
What: One 30-45 minute demo for group of 15-20 high school students (upperclassmen)

Thoreau Elementary School
When May 28th 8-9AM (yes, it’s early)
What: Two one-hour or 30-minute activities, presented twice, for 6th-graders (preferably something interactive).

If you don’t have any specific ideas but still want to help, email and we may be able to use you! Feel free to volunteer with friends to present something together, or suggest these opportunities to your grad student and faculty research advisers.

A reminder about our up-coming Startup Office Hours event. Please take advantage of this great opportunity!

—–Original Message—–
From: Ed Lazowska
Subject: “Startup Office Hours”

For several years, we’ve had a very successful program where our friends at Madrona Venture Group and the Perkins-Coie law firm hold “startup office hours” once a quarter in the Atrium.

The basic approach is that a partner from each firm comes to CSE for a few hours; they hang out in the Atrium; students or faculty members interested in “learning more” — particularly anyone beginning to think about a startup — book a slot and have a discussion with the venture/legal pair.

Other firms are now seeking to participate, and I’m happy to announce:

STARTUP OFFICE HOURS
OVP VENTURE PARTNERS AND WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI THURSDAY APRIL 23, 10:00-2:00

Register for a slot here:
http://www.doodle.com/4vmgnay2gtquai6v

Find out more about OVP here:
http://www.ovp.com/ Lucinda Stewart is the partner who will be with us on the 23rd.

Find out more about WSGR here:
http://www.wsgr.com/WSGR/Index.aspx Craig Sherman is the partner who will be with us on the 23rd.

Both Lucinda and Craig are terrific; this is a great chance to benefit from their many years of experience in the financial and legal aspects of startups.

Inventing Your Own Path

In 2009, the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is taking the path less traveled!  From April 17-19^th, the Professional Northwest and UW SWE sections are hosting the 2009 SWE Region J Conference at the UW South Campus Center.  The theme of the conference is “Entrepreneurship: Inventing Your Own Path.”

This conference will be an exciting and informative weekend that will help scientists, engineers, and anyone else turn their ideas into companies through workshops, speakers, and an entrepreneurial services fair.  Workshop leaders include Vanessa Fox, a partner at Seattle’s Ignition Partners venture firm, and Sharelle Klaus, founder of Dry Soda.

There will also be a technical tour at Boeing and a career fair featuring engineering companies that may not generally recruit at UW.

The lunch keynote speaker is Linda Bernardi, a serial tech entrepreneur who recently started her own leadership institute.  Ms. Bernardi is the CEO and founder of StraTerra Partners, a technology strategy consulting firm, and a board member of SETI.

Christina Lomasney, CEO, president, and co-founder of materials science firm Modumetal, will be the keynote speaker at the evening banquet.  She has worked in the research, development and commercialization of advanced materials technologies for over a decade.

The conference includes an Order of the Engineer ceremony where engineers take an oath similar to the Hippocratic Oath sworn by doctors.

The 2009 SWE Region J conference is a great opportunity to network with women engineers.  The conference is open to males and females, engineers and non-engineers.  Early-bird registration ends March 23 and banquet tickets are limited, so register soon to save your spot at this inspiring event!

For more information, please visit:  http://www.swe.org/regionj/jcon09/

Sponsors include BP, US Navy Recruiting Command, and UW Technology Management MBA.

Just a reminder about the Google info session tonight:

Greetings from Google!

Getting involved with an Open Source project is an excellent way to gain real-world software development experience.  Through the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program, you have the opportunity to partner with an experienced mentor, deeply immerse yourself in a 3-month coding project, and work collaboratively with a globally distributed team.  Google will accept student applications from March 23 through April 3.

You’re invited to learn more about Google Summer of Code and meet a few mentors from 2008 GSoC at an info session this Thursday.

What:  Google Summer of Code Info session
When:  Thursday, March 5, from 6-8pm
Where:  UW, Paul Allen Center for Computer Science, Microsoft Atrium

More info and RSVP to attend:  https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cnV3bDFQbFZDLVg5elVwcFFCN193bVE6MA..

We look forward to meeting you!