CSE Undergrad News

Dear Students,

The Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) will offer a “Tech Sandbox Competition” in the winter quarter of 2014 as a two credit course (BioE 498G and 599H).

BIOEN 498G, SLN 21189, Thursday 3:00 – 4:50 p.m. in Russell 204, 1414 NE 42^nd Street.

BIOEN 599H, SLN 21190, same days, times, place.

You need instructor permission (from Lise Johnson, liseaj@uw.edu ) to register. Once you have her permission, please forward that to bioeng@uw.edu and ask to be added to the course. Specify BIOEN 498G or BIOEN 599H and include your student i.d.#. We will NOT issue entry codes; we will register you directly, so clear ALL course conflicts prior to asking to be added.

In this class undergraduate and graduate students will work in teams to create projects that demonstrate concepts in sensorimotor neural engineering.  For these projects, students will have access to Center-based equipment (see below) and workspace.  The final projects will be presented to and judged by a panel of CSNE industry affiliates.  Each member of the winning team will receive a tablet computer for personal use.  Space is limited and students can only be enrolled once they have identified a team.  Teams must have one graduate student and one undergraduate student and no more than three members.  There will be an information session at the CSNE (1414 NE 42nd St., Suite 204) on Tuesday, November 19th at 12:30 PM.  If you are interested in the class you are encouraged to attend; if you do not have a team this is will be an opportunity to meet other interested parties.  If you have questions, please email CSNE University Education Manager, Lise Johnson at liseaj@uw.edu.  Please feel free to share this email with your colleagues.

Equipment List:

• Biometrics Ltd. wireless, dry EMG system including 8 active EMG sensors, 8 goniometers (different sizes to accommodate upper and lower extremites), a torsiometer, contact switches, and an event marker
• Sensable Technologies Phantom OMNI haptic device with six degree-of-freedom positional sensing
• Emotiv EPOC wireless 14 channel neuroheadset with the research SDK
• 2 Microsoft Kinect sensors for Windows
• 5 degree-of-freedom data glove for motion capture
• MakerBot 3D printer
• Parrot Quadrotor
• Vicon Motion Capture System
• Arduinos and accessories
• Gumstix single board computers
• Additional low-cost equipment may be purchased by the Center upon request

Ever wonder what your lecturers and professors work on when they aren’t teaching you? Looking for cool research to work on? Come to Research Night, tomorrow (11/19)! This is a great way to get involved with undergraduate research. Join us for refreshments and check out what opportunities await you!

Agenda:
4:30pm – Faculty Speaker: Alan Borning// EEB 125
5:00pm – Poster Session // CSE Atrium

Please RSVP for more details and to help us prepare!

See you there!

ACM will be using all the fridges in the ACM Lounge in preparation for Fallfest. As such use of all the fridges in the lounge will be restricted for that day.

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Overview:

11/19 – Research Night

11/20 – Google Office hours

11/22 – ACM Fallfest

Research Night

11/19; 4:30 – 7:30pm; EEB 125/Atrium

Come check out the research our department has been working on and possibly find a project that interests you. This is a great way to get involved with undergraduate research. Join us for refreshments and check out what opportunities await you!

Agenda:
4:30pm – Faculty Speaker: Alan Borning// EEB 125
5:00pm – Poster Session // CSE Atrium

Google Office Hours

11/20; 1:30-3:00; Atrium

ACM Fallfest

11/22; 5:30-8:30pm; Atrium

ACM is proud to present our annual Fallfest Friday, November 22th. Come join us for food, drinks*, and games! All CSE faculty, undergraduates, and graduate students are welcome! Thanks to Microsoft for sponsoring the event!

Event costs $5 for non-ACM members, and for an extra $3 you can join and won’t be charged admission at future events!

Want to help set up? Contact the ACM officers at acm-officers[at]cs…

*Must be 21+ and have ID to consume alcohol. Non-alcoholic beverages also provided. 🙂

We’ve been SWAMPED during dropins. For those of you who have had to wait a very long time, we are very sorry about that. Please note that we were very lonely the first four weeks of the quarter, so next time, if some of you could visit us before registration starts….., that would be ideal.   🙂   Also, a tip, morning drop-ins are always better than afternoons.

We have added some spaces in full courses over the last day or two. We’ll likely wait another week or so before adding more space to other courses.   Please read the registration advice on our advising pages carefully: http://www.cs.washington.edu/students/ugrad/before_you_register/

Specifically:

Registering for Full CSE Courses

Please do not contact faculty directly. CSE advisors manage overload requests for 300- and 400-level majors classes (i.e., those open only to CS or CE majors) during the first week of the quarter.  Here are actions you can take if desired classes are full:

1. Attempt to register for the full course on MyUW. This will not put you on a wait list, but it does tell us how many people attempted to get into a course and were denied admission due to space.
2. Continue watching the time schedule for an open space. Also consider other courses you can take and register for them.
3. If you cannot enroll before the start of the quarter, plan to attend class. During the first few days of the quarter, the instructor will make a paper sign-in sheet available to students who still need to register. At the end of the first week, instructors will give out add codes if there is room in the course to overload.
4. If you have trouble registering due to prerequisites, contact an advisor for assistance.

A few more tips:

If you  need manual registration help  from an advisor, please make sure to always include the following information and you’ll receive a much faster response.

Student name

Student number

SLN of section and lecture you want to add

If you are concerned about fitting in all your courses, map out a MyPlan , then email your favorite advisor (or ugrad-advisor@cs) and we’ll give you feedback on how to arrange courses. We are definitely available to you all to map out your four year plan, however it is not ideal to come to drop-ins during registration with the intention of planning out your entire 4 years, we often don’t have time to see students for longer than 5-10 min each.

Thanks everyone for your patience, we’ll work very hard to make sure everyone gets what they need.

Crystal

NEW COURSE OFFERING!
ENGR 202, WINTER 201 4
ENGINEERING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE:
A CRITICAL SEMINAR ON THE POLITICS AND POSSIB IL ITIES OF  ENGINEERING 

Join us this Winter quarter for an innovative new seminar! We’ll ask questions like:

• How can engineers work for social justice at the drawing board and in their daily lives?
• Who do we engineer for? Who defines the problems we solve? Whose work is considered engineering?
• Is technology political? Who wins when a dam is built and who loses when an engineer designs a robot?
• Why are women and people of color still so underrepresented in engineering classrooms?

These questions of the social and historical context of our discipline and the values undergirding our
work are notably absent from most skill-focused engineering curricula. This seminar is intended to fill
this gap by creating a space for engineering students to reflect on our impact on society and to imagine
a new kind of engineering for the common good.
The course is open to all levels and all majors, including non-engineers. There are no prerequisites
other than a desire to learn about the subject and participate actively in class. Course assignments will
include readings, reflections, and conceptual designs. In class activities will be largely discussion based,
focusing on weekly readings and the experiences and visions of students.

Want to combine engineering and social justice?
Email Daniel Ullom (ullomd@uw.edu) for an add code or more info!

ENGR 202 A | SLN#: 13947
Grading: 2 Credits | Credit/No Credit
Time: Mondays, 2:30-4:20 pm | Room: MEB 202
Facilitators: Daniel Ullom and Dean Chahim | Faculty Advisor: Susan Bolton
More information online at: e4sj.wordpress.com

Research Night is next Tuesday, November 19th! Come check out the research our department has been working on and possibly find a project that interests you. This is a great way to get involved with undergraduate research. Join us for refreshments and check out what opportunities await you!

Agenda:
4:30pm – Faculty Speaker: Alan Borning // EEB 125
5:00pm – Poster Session // CSE Atrium

Please RSVP for more details and to help us prepare!

See you there!

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Overview:

11/13 – Google Office Hours

11/14 – NetApp tech talk

Google Office Hours

11/13; 1:30-3:00pm; Atrium

NetApp Tech Talk

11/14; 6:00-7:00pm; EEB125

Interested in building the future of a vastly growing industry? Come see how you can make your career go Further and Faster with NetApp. Topics include: Cloud based storage, app storage performance and testing. Food and giveaways will be provided!!!!!

Want some free lunch? There will be free pizza in the Atrium TODAY at around 11:30AM provided by Microsoft! Be sure to come by and get some!