CSE Undergrad News

The event by popular demand is finally here! ACM-W is holding a workshop for everyone to learn about what makes a great resume and LinkedIn profile. We will go over key tips that make a resume stand out, and will also have time to take a nice new headshot for your LinkedIn profile. Snacks and profile pictures are provided. As always, all CSE students are welcome!

Note: There will be an interactive portion to the workshop, so please make sure you have some way of accessing your resume during the event (you can either print it out or pull it up on your computer). You will also have the opportunity to collaborate with other students in CSE and peer-review resumes and profiles. If you would like to have your resume peer-reviewed, feel free to print a copy and bring it with you!

When: March 7th (Thurs) 4pm – 5:30pm

Where: CSE 403

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1087243884794739/

RSVP here: https://goo.gl/forms/kGNfcUg0bG0E42xo2

Hey, CSE undergrads! We have two more talks to help you prepare for Life, Career, and Happiness After the Allen School! 

Tonight: Feb 27, 5:30-6:30pm:
Being Your Own Advocate in the Professional World.
Room change: CSE 305
Kasey Champion, UW Alum, tech professional, and Allen School lecturer.
Come learn from from Kasey how to advance professionally and get what you want out of your career by effectively advocating for yourself. This is a crucial skill for anyone — from seniors preparing for full-time jobs, or new students learning to navigate the UW.

March 5: What You Really Need to Know in the First 5 Years of Your Career
Kasey Champion, UW alum, tech professional, and Allen School lecturer, and Kim Nguyen, Allen School Career Advisor
Johnson 102. 

Hello, undergrads! We’re hiring new Allen School Ambassadors for our K-12 outreach team. Ambassadors lead a variety of activities for pre-college students, such as designing and delivering 1-day workshops, leading Allen School tours, and representing the school at large events like school STEM nights and career fairs.

Apply here!

Applications will close at 03.06.19 at 11:59pm. This Ambassador role lasts from Spring 2019 through Spring 2020.

This is just a reminder that holding spaces for other students and writing scripts to get into courses is strictly forbidden by UW policy.  We are investigating several cases where we think this might have happened. If we find out that you have registered for a course in this manner, your name will be forwarded on to the registrar’s office for disciplinary action.  Please play by the rules so we can all get along folks.

Some capstone space has been released (CSE 482) and we’ll be releasing more capstone space in the next hour or more, including NLP and VR capstone if there is space available, you should receive a notify notification.

Are you looking for a cup of coffee or tea to get you through a busy day? Do you want to meet new people in CSE? Come join us Tuesday the 26th in the CSE1 Atrium between 10:30 AM – 1:30 PM for a relaxing time drinking your beverage of choice, snacking on cookies, and unwinding with your peers. Coffee, tea, and cookies will be provided! The event is organized by SAC, ACM, ACM-W, and Q++.

Hey, CSE undergrads! We have two talks this week to help you prepare for Life, Career, and Happiness After the Allen School! These talks should be entertaining and enlightening:

TOMORROW: Tuesday Feb 26, 5:30-6:30pm:
Git Out The Vote: Coding For Politics
Presented by Krista Davis, Allen School alum, former Google employee, political campaign worker, and Chief Architect & Founder of Groundbase.
Krista will provide insights from her career in the tech industry, on a major political campaign, and creating a startup for the political world. This talk is good for anyone interested in politics, non-traditional careers in CS, startups, and using your career to pursue your passions and values!
Johnson 102. 

WEDNESDAY Feb 27, 5:30-6:30pm:
Being Your Own Advocate in the Professional World.
Kasey Champion, UW Alum, tech professional, and Allen School lecturer.
Come learn from from Kasey how to advance professionally and get what you want out of your career by effectively advocating for yourself. This is a crucial skill for anyone — from seniors preparing for full-time jobs, or new students learning to navigate the UW.
CSE2 / Gates Center / The New Building room 271

March 5: What You Really Need to Know in the First 5 Years of Your Career
Kasey Champion, UW alum, tech professional, and Allen School lecturer, and Kim Nguyen, Allen School Career Advisor
Johnson 102. 

TOMORROW! Tuesday, Feb 19, 5:30-6:30pm
What a Senior PM Wishes Junior Developers Knew About Communication
Guest speaker: Herman Forrest, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft
Come learn useful strategies for collaborating at your future workplace! Your technical skills will only take you so far — to be a successful professional, you need to be an effective team member. Learn from an experienced Program Manager at Microsoft how to communicate your ideas, give and receive feedback, ask questions, and work with others. This talk should be useful for all students: new to CSE and beginning group projects, looking forward to a summer internship, or ready to start a full-time position soon.
Johnson 102. 

If you are still looking for a 400 level capstone course for spring quarter, consider taking CSE 482B.  This course meets the UW diversity general education requirement.  It’s also 5 credits and has some really interesting projects.  While 331 is a listed prereq, we can waive that course.  The preferred prereqs are CSE 332 and significant programming experience.

Students will work on a group project that uses Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to address global needs with an emphasis on developing countries. While ICTs are having an enormous impact on livelihoods worldwide, deployment environments vary dramatically based on available infrastructure and technologies accessible to people. Areas of projects could include: health information systems, data collection technologies, applications for basic mobile phones, user interface design for low literate populations, behavior change communication, voice based social networks, community cellular networks, open source projects for global good, low-cost smartphones, satellite image analysis or mobile financial services targeting domains including health, education, agriculture, finance, and livelihood.

A list of potential Capstone projects,  and be found at: https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse490c/18au/lectures/Lecture30.pdf

———- Forwarded message ———
From: Richard Ladner <ladner@cs.washington.edu>

Dear Allen School Students,

UW Allen School is sponsoring Study Away Silicon Valley (UW-SASV) to be held the week of May 20 -24, 2019. Organized by Teach Access, students will visit companies such as Apple, Oath, Google, and Facebook to meet their accessibility teams and participate in accessibility related projects.  The trip is fully funded by the UW Allen School and Teach Access.   Undergraduate students earn one credit of 499 by preparing a reflective report on their activities.  The application is open to undergraduate, fifth-year, and  graduate students enrolled in the Allen School. 

To learn more about the program last year please visit the 2018 SASV Recap web page.

To apply, please go to the Google Form: https://goo.gl/forms/VEWfWUBy8RKry4s13

The group size is limited to five students who have a strong interest in learning about what tech companies are doing to make their products and services accessible to people with disabilities. 

The application deadline is February 24, 2019.

If you have any questions or concerns please let me know by e-mail.
Richard E. LadnerProfessor Emeritus

Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering

University of Washington

Some of you have noticed issues in the 484 registration with the size of the lecture and sections. We are aware of the issues and working to address them. We hope to have an additional section of both 484 and 452 released with in the next day or two.