INTSCI 401 provides an opportunity for students to obtain a service-based learning experience within informal or formal science education. It is a way for students to gain real world experience through a course framework that connects students to organizations and institutions in the local community.Example practicum experiences include weekly visits to a science classroom, volunteer work at a science or natural history museum, or participation in a science education partnership with a local, regional, or national science research institution or agency.
INTSCI 401 is open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors with a strong interest in science education.Students interested in obtaining an entry code should complete the survey at: http://tinyurl.com/intsci401spr14
The theme for this quarter’s projects is accessibility. Students will present 10 projects that aimed at designing tools for persons with challenges or disabilities, including target user groups such as hospitalized teenagers, wheelchair-bound individuals, persons with food allergies/sensitivities, older adults, deaf/hard-of-hearing individuals, and low-income families. In just 10 weeks, students have brainstormed project ideas, observed target users to understand their needs, iteratively refined their ideas based on user feedback, and constructed video and interactive prototypes to convey their designs.
CSE 490D/481K is a two-quarter-long design and implementation sequence. In the two credit winter quarter design studio, students form project groups to scope and design projects that will then be implemented in the spring quarter capstone. This quarter three groups are proposing projects related to vaccine cold chain management. They are all addressing real needs as expressed by experts from UNICEF & PATH who will be eagerly awaiting their prototypes next quarter.
The students would greatly appreciate your feedback on their projects.
Refreshments will be served.
Research project in optimization of scientific software
In the Noble lab we develop algorithmic approaches for analysis of large, complex genomic and proteomic datasets. Several of our proteomics tools have workflows that are amenable to parallelization. We would like to recruit undergraduate researchers to extend at least two of the existing tools with robust, production-grade parallel computational capability, using threading or GPUs. This work can be done for research credit (e.g., CSE 499).
The specific projects are as follows:
1) Previously, we greatly improved the statistical calibration of a standard proteomics scoring function, using dynamic programming (DP) to calculate the distribution of scores over all possible (>10e+20) peptides. DP is inherently slow, but its calculation for each spectrum is independent of other spectra, and could be performed in parallel.
2) We are also adapting the DP to calculate score distributions for a more complex class of peptides which have crosslinked structures. This requires two rounds of combinatorial summation of scores from the DP distribution, and is currently very slow. However, the structure of the combinatorial summation appears ideally suited to acceleration with a GPU.
Programming will be primarily in C++. Prior experience with threading or GPU programming environments like CUDA is desirable.
Please contact Prof. Bill Noble (wnoble@uw.edu) for more information.
We are looking for participants for a user study that involves showing a robot new ways of performing a task. The study is running through March 14th, and it takes about an hour. In return for your help, you will receive a full-sized Clif bar and a portrait photograph with Rosie the Robot.
You can sign up for the study here. We have openings every 30 minutes.
Thanks!
Maxell Forbes, Mike Chung, Maya Cakmak & Rajesh Rao
Course Opportunity Spring 2014—HCDE 496/596 (Directed Research: Developing a Toolkit to Remotely Assess the User Experience)
We are looking for students to help us further develop an open source software toolkit (Open WebLabUX) that allows web designers to remotely assess the effectiveness of different website designs by measuring users’ behaviors, perceptions, and comprehension when they interact with information online. You can earn course credit while helping us develop our toolkit.
Winter 2014 activities that would interest to CSE students include:
PHP/MySQL coding of backend data collection infrastructure
User interface coding (HTML/CSS, JavaScript/JQuery, PHP)
Quality assurance testing
Individual students will drive the development and testing of a feature or set of features of the software, under supervision of a senior graduate student and faculty member.
The group will meet on Mondays and Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in Sieg 420.
Students can participate in this research group by enrolling for 2-5 credits (graded cr/no cr) in HCDE 496 (for undergraduate students) or HCDE 596 (for graduate students). Students are expected to spend, on average, three hours of effort per credit per week. Interested students should send a short email to Professor Jan Spyridakis (jansp@uw.edu) explaining their interest in the group and suggesting what software development strengths they could contribute to the group.
This is the first in a series of sidewalk closure notifications.
The sidewalk on the east side of the Montlake Triangle will be closed for underground utility work between3/14/14 – 3/28/14. The sidewalk on the other 2 sides of the Triangle will remain open.
Buddy Ratner and I are again presenting an introductory course in technology commercialization (BIOEN 504) this spring. Please see the attached poster and PASS IT ON to undergraduate, professional MS, and graduate students in your department/program. There are links in the document to videos helping describe the course in more detail. It would be great if EVERY student in the CoE could be contacted since this is a broad introduction to commercialization and entrepreneurship topics of interest to all engineers and computer scientists.
Although it has a BIOEN number, the course is intended for CoE students in all engineering and computer science disciplines. We have gotten good reviews for the course in the last few years and we have spiced it up a little with some new speakers. It is targeted to senior undergraduates and graduate students. It is ESPECIALLY valuable to professional MS students. We have noticed that junior undergraduates can keep up, but they should have some experience with design projects/internships. We’ve had a mixed student base the last two years, and that has worked very well since this is an introductory course and the work load is not heavy. It should be easy for most students to fit this into their busy schedules and they will gain a LOT from this exposure to a wide range of topics in technology commercialization and entrepreneurship.
Thanks,
Matt & Buddy
Matthew O’Donnell, Ph.D.
Professor, Bioengineering
Department of Bioengineering
Benjamin Hall Interdisciplinary Research Building
Room 514
Box 355013
616 NE Northlake Place
Seattle, WA 98105
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