CSE Undergrad News

Hey folks,

First, a big welcome back to our current students and a congratulations to all our newly admitted students.  We look forward to working with all of you this year (but ideally not all at the same time).  So here are a few notes to remember this fall:

We need mentors! If you have been in the department for at least one quarter, please sign up to be a mentor.  The welcome night is THIS THURSDAY 4-530pm (yes, food included).  I know this conflicts with some courses and TA’ing, sorry about that, we didn’t have a lot of options. Please sign up via the catalyst survey by 10am on Thurs.  Mentors will meet in room 305 of the Allen center around 4.

Overloading: If you are still trying to get into a CSE course, plan to attend the first day and put your name on the overload list. We’ll try to make decisions by Monday.

Dropin advising: We have four advisors, plus a new half time advisor this year (Tina Donahue) who will be helping you folks out, but we also have over 650 current students and hundreds of prospective students, so we’ll need your patience.  If you have immediate registration issues, feel free to come to dropins this week, if you want to look at your four year plan… let’s wait until you fill out a MyPlan and then come see us after a couple of weeks have passed…

Email:  We get a lot of email, but here is a tip, if you need a section change or something registration related and you give us ALL the info you think we might need (student number, sln’s etc) so we don’t have to look things up, there is a higher chance we’ll answer your email sooner rather than later.

Hope you all had a relaxing summer and are ready to dive into a fun new year. We look forward to working with you.

Sincerely,

CSE Advising: Crystal, Raven, Elise, Jen, and Tina

Are you serious about entrepreneurship?                             

Apply to the Lavin Entrepreneurship Program!

Application deadline:  Monday, October 14                                                  

The Lavin Entrepreneurship Program prepares a select group of entering University of Washington undergraduate students, of all majors, for entrepreneurial careers. Whether they want to start their own business or work within a larger company, the Lavin Program will help those who have a passion for entrepreneurship achieve their goals. The program works to expose students to the risks and rewards of entrepreneurship – all in a safe environment.

Apply now!  https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/uwbuerk/209579 – You will need a UW Net ID.

To find out more about undergraduate entrepreneurship at the UW, attend an Open House!

All majors welcome!

Open Houses – Dempsey Hall, Herbold Innovation Lab, Room 211 (map) Food and drink provided!

Dates:  Tuesday, September 24:     3:30 – 4:30
Friday, September 27:      12:30 – 1:30

Contact me if you have any questions!

Leslie Mabry | Assistant Director
Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship

UW Foster School of Business, Dempsey Hall 227
206.685-5669 mabryl@uw.edu
Connect with Buerk on Facebook

Software Entrepreneurship (ENTRE 432 /CSE490B)

Restr  12728 A  4       TTh    130-320    PCAR 295

This course is designed for students who want to learn how to build a software-based startup. More

than ever, software, algorithms, and circuitry form the core of new businesses. And when you include

internet and mobile applications, it’s difficult to think of any future consumer business that doesn’t have

a software component.

This course will explore the opportunities and challenges of the software industry, using a mix of real

life examples, lectures, and guest speakers. You’ll learn the basics of software-based startups: product

and customer development, business feasibility and competitive analysis, basic software intellectual

property, the present and future of mobile applications, software and internet marketing, etc.

The class will include:

• An overview of the industry: from Web 2.0 to gaming to enterprise software to bioinformatics

• Trends and emerging opportunities in the software industry

• A roadmap for starting, funding, and growing a software venture

• University spin-offs and technology transfer

• Current industry challenges

• Cutting–edge software practices

How does a part-time, dog-walking business produce six-figure profit?  How does an undergraduate end

up leading a computational genomics company? How does a clean-tech application get sold to Belkin

International for a good chunk of money? You’ll meet the entrepreneurs (former UW students) and hear

how and why they did it.

Students will come away with an understanding of the dynamics of starting a company and competing

in the software industry. At the end, you’ll deliver an executive summary for the startup, a proof of

concept, and a polished presentation. You’ll know how to take a “good idea” and turn it into a plan,

which could form the basis for your new career.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn the basic foundations for modeling a software business

2. Learn to create an oral and written proposal for a new venture

3. Learn best practices for starting and growing a software and technology based venture

4. Learn about current trends and opportunities within the software industry

Dear Computer Science & Engineering major:

There are two courses being offered this fall that we want to call to
your attention.
Please consider including these in your fall schedule.  They make
excellent senior electives for CS majors and are an important part of
the intellectual center for CompE majors.

CSE466: Software for Embedded Systems – Bruce Hemingway

Microprocessors pervade our everyday life from implanted medical
devices to anti-lock brakes to robots.  Take CSE466 to learn how these
devices are programmed and how code can interact with real world
physical objects – not just data objects in memory. Programming these
systems poses interesting challenges in performance for real-time
operation, security and safety considerations, network communications,
and user interfaces. The class project will have students implement
their own physical device.

CSE467: Advanced Digital Design – Gabriel Cohn

How you ever wondered how the Xbox Kinect and other computer vision
systems can compute complicated algorithms on large data sets in
real-time? Take CSE 467 to learn how to dramatically accelerate an
algorithm by implementing it on custom hardware! Such hardware
acceleration is commonly used for high speed computations in computer
vision, artificial intelligence, computational biology, and finance.
The class project will allow students will implement a highly
optimized computer vision algorithm on an FGPA.

Thanks,
Gaetano Borriello
Undergraduate Program Faculty Coordinator

Just a quick note to let you know that we will be updating the blogs soon. All subscribers will be removed, then all current ugrads and vgrads will be added back in . Please remember that you can edit which categories of messages you receive. We try to be good about posting only relevant stories. Occasionally we post ‘general interest’ information, and we tend to mark that ‘miscellaneous’ so you can opt out of that if you prefer.

CSE Advising

Tracy Erbeck
2:32 PM (2 hours ago)

to cs-staff, faculty, visitors, cs-grads, cs-ugrads
We will be having a fire drill on Monday, 9/9- time unknown. The alarm will sound, lights flash- If you happen to be working in the building, please exit and gather on the lawn across Benton Lane. I expect the drill to last around 30 minutes.

Thank you.

Tracy Erbeck
Facilities Manager, CSE, University of Washington
tracy@cs.washington.edu
206.543.9264 (office)
206.543.2969 (fax)

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