CSE Undergrad News

This Fall’s Resume Review Workshop will be held next Tuesday October 11th from 3:00pm to 5:00pm in the CSE Atrium

This workshop is designed to allow you to gather tips from the experts to turn your resume drafts into documents that will help land your dream job or internship.

All you need to attend is a few printed copies of your resume–anything from a rough draft to almost-finished product is fine.  Show up anytime between 3:00 and 5:00 pm (plan on 20 minutes per review) to share your resume with 1 or more recruiters or technical interview experts from several of our affiliate companies, both large and small.  These experts will provide resume advice to get your resume in great shape for the upcoming recruiting fair on October 18th and 20th.

All CSE undergraduates who are considering pursuing an internship or full-time employment in 2015-16 (and this should be you!) should not miss our CSE Department sponsored Industry Panel next Wednesday.

This event will feature a panel of CSE graduates and HR reps who will provide important information on the steps CSE undergraduates need to take in the coming months to land the internship or job of their dreams.  Student questions are very much encouraged.  You should leave this event with a much better understanding of the timing and direction of your upcoming job search.

If you want a fun summer job sharing your love of CS with younger students, apply to be a CSE summer camp counselor!

Link to Application

We’ll host 6 weeks of summer camps between late June and late August, leaving you with plenty of free time to enjoy your summer. Counselors work only during the camps (dates below). Depending on staffing, counselors may be able to work some camps and skip others. Counselors should have completed Intro Programming and be enthusiastic about working with middle school students. No prior counseling or teaching experience necessary.

All summer camp dates are:

• June 27 – July 1
• July 11- 15
• July 18 – 22
• July 25 – 29
• Aug 15-19
• Aug 22- 26

Questions: Contact jmunroe@cs.washington.edu

     SUMMER 2016
PAID SUMMER RESEARCH INTERNSHIPS FOR UNDERREPRESENTED STUDENTS
via CRA-W/CDC DREU
(DREU was known as the DMP from 1994-2008)

Application Deadline: March 1, 2016
Awards Announced:     March 2016

The CRA-W/CDC Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU)
Program matches promising undergraduates with a faculty mentor for a
summer research experience at the faculty member’s home institution.
The objective of the DREU is to increase the number of women and
students from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities
and persons with disabilities, entering graduate studies in the fields
of computer science and engineering.  The DREU experience is invaluable
for students who are considering graduate school, providing them with a
close-up view of what graduate school is really like and also increasing
their competitiveness as an applicant for graduate admissions and
fellowships.

Funding for the student consists of $7000 for the summer (10 weeks),
plus relocation travel assistance when appropriate.  Additional funds
may be available to support student conference travel, either during
the summer or afterward, and for outreach activities promoting the DREU.

DREU Student Application:
https://parasol.tamu.edu/craw/production/apps/dreuStudent/

DREU Mentor Application:
https://parasol.tamu.edu/craw/production/apps/dreuMentor/

For more information about the DREU, including and webpages authored by
previous participants, consult the DREU webpages
http://cra.org/cra-w/distributed-research-experiences-for-undergraduates-dreu/
or contact the DREU Co-Directors at dreu@cra.org

Nancy M. Amato, Professor, Texas A&M University
Co-Director, Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (CDC)

Monica Anderson, Associate Professor, The University of Alabama
Co-Director, Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (CDC)

Maria Gini, Professor, University of Minnesota
Co-Director, Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (CRA-W)

Julia Hirschberg, Professor, Columbia University
Co-Director, Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (CRA-W)

Ming Lin, Professor, University of North Carolina
Co-Director, Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (CRA-W)

The Computing Research Association (CRA, http://cra.org) is an
association of more than 180 North American academic departments of
computer science and computer engineering; laboratories and centers
in industry, government, and academia engaging in basic computing
research; and affiliated professional societies.

The Coalition to Diversity Computing (CDC, http://www.cdc-computing.org/)
is a joint organization of the ACM, CRA, and IEEE-CS.

DREU is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation with
additional support from the Luce Foundation

CSE Undergraduates (only!),

All CSE majors who are looking for a full-time job or internship this year should consider participating in our CSE Mock Technical Interviews the evening of Wednesday, February 3rd.  Several outstanding companies will be participating to run CSE students through a single half-hour simulated technical interview.  The sessions will place students one-on-one with a hiring manager or engineer who regularly conducts technical interviews.  Interview questions will include puzzles, logic, data structures, coding and more with a ten minute feedback session following.  Mock interviews will take place in the CSE building.

Registration is open now for all CSE students.  RSVP  here!

Registration will remain open through 12:00 pm Monday, February 1.  Students will be informed of their interview time and (hopefully) interviewing company via email by the end of the day Monday.  I will inform all students who were not able to get interviews via email on Monday as well.

Students can choose one of three offered interview times from the linked sign-up form: 6:00-6:45 pm, 6:45-7:30 pm or 7:30-8:15 pm.  Space is limited.  Slots will be assigned in order of sign up.

If you have any questions, please let me know!

Hey CSE students, the winter career fair is coming up fast, and we have two more events to get you prepared:

Negotiation Workshop

Monday, January 11 from 5:30– 6:30pm in EE 125.

Early salary negotiations play a huge role in maximizing your lifetime earning potential. But salary negotiation is also a real challenge – especially early on in your career. Aubrey Bach, Senior Marketing and Editorial Manager at PayScale.com, is here to help you understand why, when, and what to do to understand your real market value and make sure you are earning it in any job. Join us for a little inspiration, a lot of strategy, and a ton of data to help you make sure you are earning your worth throughout your career.

Resume Review

Thursday, January 14 from 3:00 – 5:00pm in the CSE Atrium.

This workshop is designed to allow you to gather tips from the experts to turn your resume drafts into documents that will help land your dream job or internship.

All you need to attend is a few copies of your resume–anything from a rough draft to almost-finished product is fine.  Show up anytime between 3 and 5 pm (plan on 20 minutes per review) to share your resume with 1 or more HR or technical interview experts from several of our affiliate companies, both large and small.  These experts will provide resume advice to get your resume in great shape for the Fall recruiting fair on October 19 and 21.

More Events:

Calendar Link: https://www.cs.washington.edu/students/ugrad/advising_calendar

Industrial Affiliates Fall Recruiting Fair:  Wednesday, Jan. 27; (startups); Thursday, Jan. 28; (established companies); CSE Building

Mock Interviews: Wednesday, Feb. 3

Hey CSE students, the career fair is coming up fast, and we have two more events to get you prepared:

Resume Review Workshop

Tuesday, October 13 from 3:00 – 5:00pm in the CSE Atrium.

This workshop is designed to allow you to gather tips from the experts to turn your resume drafts into documents that will help land your dream job or internship.

All you need to attend is a few copies of your resume–anything from a rough draft to almost-finished product is fine.  Show up anytime between 3 and 5 pm (plan on 20 minutes per review) to share your resume with 1 or more HR or technical interview experts from several of our affiliate companies, both large and small.  These experts will provide resume advice to get your resume in great shape for the Fall recruiting fair on October 19 and 21.

Technical Interview Coaching

Thursday, October 15 from 3:00 – 5:00pm in the CSE Atrium.

At this event technical interviewers from several of our industry affiliates will meet with groups of 2-4 students.  The interviewers will describe their technical interview process, give students a few sample questions and coach students on what they look for in answers.  The sessions will include sample programming questions, logic questions and puzzles. Our experts will also provide examples of what they ask in actual technical interviews and how to successfully answer to land the job.

Students will have three individual sessions of 15 minutes each with three different company volunteers (our choice, at least one, and probably two of the reps you meet with will be from a major local company).

The sessions will be for general insight and will not be in the form of interviews, although sample questions will be posed for demonstration purposes.  The upcoming October 28 Mock Technical Interviews will feature an interview format.

Space is limited –  RSVP now!  Selections will be made based on CSE seniority AND on a first come-first served basis.  The RSVP deadline for this event is Monday, October, 12.  I will let you know by end of day on Tuesday of your time of your Thursday appointment or if you were not able to secure a slot.

Please contact Jenifer (jpesicka@cs.uw.edu) if you need any additional information on this event.

 
Future Recruiting Events (all this month):

Calendar Link: https://www.cs.washington.edu/students/ugrad/advising_calendar

Industrial Affiliates Fall Recruiting Fair:  Monday, Oct. 19; (startups); Wednesday, Oct. 21; (established companies); CSE Building

All CSE undergraduates who are considering pursuing an internship or full-time employment in 2015-16 (and this should be you!) should not miss our CSE Department sponsored Industry Panel next Monday.

This event will feature a panel of CSE graduates and HR reps who will provide important information on the steps CSE undergraduates need to take in the coming months to land the internship or job of their dreams.  Student questions are very much encouraged.  You should leave this event with a much better understanding of the timing and direction of your upcoming job search.

From: Julie Kientz <jkientz@uw.edu>
Date: Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 2:52 PM
Subject: Advertising REU position?
To: “ugrad-advisors@cs.washington.edu” <ugrad-advisors@cs.washington.edu> Cc: Matthew Kay <mjskay@cs.washington.edu>

Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Position Available
Designing and Implementing a Novel Weight Scale Interface

We are seeking to hire an undergraduate student this summer to help implement a research prototype. We are working on designing and evaluating a weight scale that can track factors influencing your weight and tell you how much various things (clothing, time of day, etc) influence the weight you see when you step on the scale. We are looking for someone to help us implement the front end to this scale.

The student should ideally have development experience in Python, Java, or similar. Tasks will involve authenticating users, reading weight data over a serial port, piping that data through an existing model for each user, and displaying that data in a user interface. Some of the skills for implementing the system can be learned “on-the-job.”

Dates of Employment: Looking to start as soon as possible, but can be flexible. End date will be by the end of August, 2015.

Employment Type: Hourly employment up to 20 hours per week. Timing is flexible. Hourly pay rate starts at $15 per hour depending on year and school and level of experience.

To Apply: Please send your resume and a brief statement of your interest in the position to mjskay@cs.washington.edu

—

Julie A. Kientz
Associate Professor
Human Centered Design & Engineering
University of Washington
http://www.juliekientz.com
jkientz@uw.edu | 206-221-0614

REMINDER: Voyager office hours today – 1-3 pm, on the 2^nd floor landing!

This is an opportunity to talk with a rep from a local venture capital firm about entrepreneurship or your startup idea, or just to make a connection. Please stop by whether you already have a brilliant start-up idea, or are just curious about entrepreneurship and want to ask basic question!

Voyager Capital is the leading seed and first round technology venture firm in the Pacific Northwest managing $400 million in institutional capital in four funds. With offices in Menlo Park, Portland and Seattle, Voyager’s investment partners begin working with entrepreneurs at the earliest of stages, as their first institutional investor and board member. We strongly prefer to work with co-founding CEO’s who can scale all the way through an exit, whether that be IPO or M&A. Our past 70 investments range from cloud and core technology, to digital media and enterprise SaaS.  We initially invest as little as $500k and over time continue to support our largest and most successful investments with as much as $5-7 million of equity capital. Several of the startups we led first round investments for are now at scale and readying for IPOs including Act-On Software (marketing SaaS), ChargePoint (EV charging network software) and Elemental Technologies (software-defined video processing). Our most recent investments include Ayla Networks (IoT platform), Lytics.io (big data), SkyWard.io (aerial robotics software), and Wise.io (machine learning). Over the lifecycle of an investment, Voyager partners with some of the most respected VC’s in Boston and Silicon Valley such as General Catalyst Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures.