CSE Undergrad News

Don’t miss Tuesday’s Pacific West Graduate School Fair – more than 65  programs will be there.  Will you?

PACIFIC WEST GRADUATE SCHOOL FAIR
When: TODAY! Tuesday, November 2nd, 10:00am-2:00pm
Where: Mary Gates Hall Commons

Come to the 2010 Pacific West Graduate School Fair next week to find out about opportunities with participating schools from the Pacific Northwest, California, and Alaska. Sponsored by the Career Center and the Graduate School, this event will give you the opportunity to meet with real admissions representatives who will answer any questions you might have about their graduate school programs!

Schools in attendance include, among others:
•    Seattle Pacific University
•    Gonzaga University
•    University of British Columbia
•    Oregon State University
•    DigiPen Institute of Technology
•    University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering
•    And over 25 UW Graduate Programs!

For the full list of participating schools and programs, as well as tips on how to prepare, visit http://careers.washington.edu/Grad-Fair. Be sure to check out the full-color attendee guide!

See you today!

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Career Center Events
careerevents@uw.edu

Hello first and second year grads and senior undergrads that are
interested in grad school,

I just wanted to send out a reminder that the NSF info session will be
held tomorrow (10/13) from 3:30pm-5pm in CSE 403.
The session will officially start at 4pm, but if you have a class
conflict you can stop by (and talk with past winners) starting at
3:30. Previous winners will be there, as well as Ed Lazowska and
Lindsay Michimoto.

If you cannot make any part of this time and would still like
NSF-related information, send me an email, and I’ll send you relevant
information that we discussed.

See you there,
Emily Fortuna

FREE Practice GRE, LSAT, MCAT, DAT, OAT, and PCAT

Saturday, October 23rd

Seattle Kaplan Center

Take a FREE Practice GMAT online at www.kaptest.com/practice

On Saturday, October 23rd, Kaplan is holding a FREE opportunity for students to take a practice GRE, LSAT, MCAT, DAT, OAT, or PCAT.  The event will be held at the Seattle Kaplan Center (4216 University Way NE). It is open to anyone who would like to take a practice test, even if you are not a current student.
Each test will last up to 3 hours and will be proctored like an actual exam. After the test, one of our amazing instructors will give a short workshop on test-taking strategies and answer questions.
This is a great opportunity for students to see how they might score on the real thing, and also to get an idea of the kinds of questions that will be on the real test. The tests will be scored and returned to the students that same day with computerized feedback about their individual performance on the test.

**To sign up for the event, you just need to log onto the University of Washington Practice Test website at http://www.myfreepracticetest.com**

Before the event, we will send you an e-mail confirming your registration and providing you with instructions for checking in on Saturday.
Again, this is a completely FREE event and a great opportunity for anyone interested in going to grad, law, med, dental, optometry, or pharmacy school in the next few years!  Light refreshments and snacks will be provided.

For those of you applying to business school and taking the GMAT, remember that Free Live Online practice GMAT tests are offered several times a week at www.kaptest.com/practice .

See you at the Practice Test on October 23^rd!

ENGR 498 B “Preparing for Graduate Education”

Have you thought about life after graduation?  Consider graduate school. Offered in Winter 2010, ENGR498B will demystify the grad school process and help you think about whether it is a good option for you. Learn what it’s really like to be a grad student, what sort of work you can expect to do while you’re in grad school, and what opportunities will be open to you after grad school. Find out how to choose schools to apply to, how to make your application as strong as possible, and how you can get your education paid for. We’ll address the GREs, letters of recommendation, and ways to get an undergraduate research experience.

This course is open to all undergraduates interested in engineering, but is particularly targeted at sophomores and juniors. We especially encourage students from underrepresented groups to enroll, including women, minorities, and students with disabilities.

Thomas J. Calhoun, Jr., Ph.D.
Assistant Dean
Student Academic Services
University of Washington, College of Engineering

Hey Seniors,

If you are applying to grad school you {are|should|wish you were}
writing your “Statement of Purpose” for your application.
A bunch of us are getting together on the 24th at 1:30 in the Irish
Room (674) to review each other’s essays – print out a copy, grab a
red pen, and come join us!

ACM-W Spambot

Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley Info Session
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
EEB 303
11:30 – 12:30 •
Master of Software Engineering
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering
(CyLab Mobility Research Center)

Join us for lunch and find out about the exciting graduate
programs available at Carnegie Mellon’s Silicon Valley campus,
in the epicenter of the software engineering industry. For more information, contact chris.zeise@sv.cmu.edu: 650‐335‐2810 http://sv.cmu.edu

From Evan Herbst (eherbst@cs):

NSF essay editing session next Wed (October 28) 1500 – 1630 in 303. There should be a decent number of grads to read yours, and you can read each others’. You can find readers anywhere but we’re trying to make it easy for you. The dept may be willing to provide snacks; that’s TBD.

From Evan Herbst, grad seminar coordinator:

The National Science Foundation fellowship is generally considered the most desirable fellowship for grad students in CS and related fields. All current seniors who are US citizens and permanent residents (and applying to grad school) are eligible to apply. The point of major fellowships is to pay for you to work on whatever you want in grad school rather than what your advisor, who can otherwise take away funding at will, tells you to. In this case, you get about $30k a year, but the important thing is you don’t have to stick to working on the project plan you present in your application–you can switch topics after you get to grad school.

Obama has kept up his campaign rhetoric about increasing research funding, and the little birdies say there should be two to three times as many NSF fellowships awarded this year as are usual. UWCS students (undergrad + grad) usually get about two a year. The more people who apply in the CS category, the more awards in the CS category there will be.

The CS dept. is holding an info/Q&A session on the NSF fellowship Friday 10/2 at 5 pm in cs303. You’ll hear from past NSF recipients and Prof. Ed Lazowska, who’s been on the NSF awarding committee. We’ll provide copies of past winning essays. And non-NSF-specific fellowship questions are welcome.

The application deadline is early Nov. Later in October we’ll provide essay-writing help. For now, come next week and open an application at nsfgrfp.org.

Thanks!