CSE Undergrad News

Events are FREE and open to all UW students, faculty, staff, alumni and the Seattle entrepreneurial community.

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October 15

— 50 Coffee Meetings! Networking Secrets, DAN PRICE (Gravity Payments)

— Seattle Movie Premiere:PORTER ERISMAN‘s “Crocodile in the Yangtze: The Story of a Westerner Inside China’s Alibaba.com.”Watch the trailer.

October 16
— TechStars Walk:FOUNDER’S CO-OP, STARTUPSEATTLEandLIKEBRIGHT
— Rebuilding Our Economy, Our Cities, Our Jobs–and Saving the Planet, DAVID ALLEN(McKinstry)

October 17

— Food on Wheels:A Panel Presentation – A Foodie Blogger Dishes with Food Truck Owners
Food trucks on campusfrom 11 AM – 2 PM:Molly Moon’s, Veraci Pizza, Monte Cristo
— There’s a Reason They’re Called Angel Investors, GEOFF ENTRESS(Super Angel)

October 18
— Start-up Walk: GLYMPSE, YAPTA, and ADORII

— Creating a Sensation Through Social Media, ANDY BOYER andROB SALKOWITZ

October 19

—Venture Capital Walk:WRF CAPITAL, VULCAN andIGNITION

For all EntreWeek event details visit:www.foster.washington.edu/entreweek

Contact: Samantha Ogle at samogle@uw.edu or 206-616-8687.

Overview:
10/15: Technical Interview Coaching
10/16: Qualcomm Office Hours
10/16: Microsoft Tech talk
10/17: Microsoft Office Hours
10/17: Zynga Office Hours
10/17: Qualcomm Tech Talk
10/18: Amazon Office Hours
10/18: eBay Info Session
10/18: Yelp Tech Talk
10/19-10/20: Google: 24 Hours of Good

Technical Interview Coaching:
10/15; 3:30pm – 5:30pm; Atrium
This event is a must for CSE undergrads who will be interviewing for a full-time or internship position over the next year and would benefit from a preview of the technical interview questions they will face (this should include almost all CSE ugrads!)

At this event technical interviewers from the largest local high-tech firms 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 attend three individual sessions of 15 minutes each with three different company volunteers.

Qualcomm Office Hours:
10/16; 10:00am – 4:00pm; CSE 021

Microsoft Tech Talk:
10/16; 6:00pm – 7:30pm; EEB 125
Come learn how you can be what’s next! Food will be provided. Bring your resume for a chance to win an Xbox/Kinect!

Questions? Want to apply online? www.microsoft.com/university

Microsoft Office Hours:
10/17; 10:00am – 12:00pm; Atrium

Zynga Office Hours:
10/17; 12:30pm – 3:30pm; Atrium

Qualcomm Tech Talk
10/17; 5:30pm – 7:00pm; EEB 125
Join us for a Tech Talk on 10/17 from 5:30pm-7:00pm in EE125. Director of Engineering, Marcello Lioy will be presenting to us on AllJoyn. Bring your resume, there will be lots of food and giveaways.

www.qualcomm.com/careers

Amazn Office Hours
10/18; 12:00pm – 1:30pm; Atrium

eBay Info Session:
10/18; 4:00pm – 5:00pm; HUB 145
We are actively hiring for full-time positions — come listen, watch and learn what eBay Inc. has to offer.

Max Stepin, Senior Director of Engineering at eBay Max manages the eBay Development team working on shipping features. These features include delivery times estimates, and cross-border shipping.

Before eBay, Max worked for 11 years at Microsoft in operating systems and online services. Peggy MacDonald, Product Manager with eBay Peggy has been working on eBay mobile apps since 2008 when the iPhone app first launched.

Yelp Tech Talk:
10/18; 6:00 – 7:00pm; EEB 125
Yelp is holding a tech talk about our latest search projects, and you’re invited! Join our fb group, invite your friends, and bring your resume for our iPad raffle!

Come hear Jim, Yelp Software Engineer extraordinaire, talk about Data Visualization here at Yelp! We’re catering free dinner from Taste of India; rated 4 stars on yelp.com FMI: http://www.facebook.com/events/420812351311668/

Google: 24 Hours of Good
10/19 – 10/20; 5:00pm – 5:00pm (24 hours); Google Fremont Office
Sign up has closed. This is a reminder for anyone who has signed up for the 24 Hours of Good hackathon!

Congratulations to Steve Rutherford as our newly elected ACM Vice Chair!

We have one more position left to vote for: External Relations! Meet the candidates!

Vote here: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/apacible/180404

If you’re having trouble viewing the survey, please contact Elise – elised [at] cs [dot] washington [dot] edu .

Voting will close at 11PM PST on Tuesday, October 16, 2012.

Don’t forget! Voting for Vice Chair closes tonight at 11PM.

Meet the candidates!

Vote Here: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/apacible/180402

Hello,

TL;DR — fill out https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/helenem/179736 to volunteer with K-12 students!

Our K-12 outreach program, DawgBytes, reached over 120 teachers and 1,000 students during last academic year. We offered classroom presentations, summer camps, programming competitions, teacher workshops and more. All of this was possible thanks to the involvement of over 40 undergraduate and graduate students — check it out: http://cs.washington.edu/dawgbytes

This year, we’d like to do even more and we need your help! We’re involved in outreach because as many of you know all too well, computer science is a subject that many students discover late and don’t understand well. This affects the diversity of our field as a whole and results in disappointed college seniors who discover they love CS but feel like they can’t switch majors so late in the game. We want to address this by making sure as many K-12 students as possible understand what CS is and know a bit about our department. In the next couple of months, we have several classroom visits, a programming competition and a computer science open house planned. Will you help us make them happen?

Please fill out this quick survey if you might be interested in volunteering at any time during the year:

https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/helenem/179736.

I look forward to working with many of you soon!

Best,

Hélène Martin
Lecturer, Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington

Come one, come all! We want you to vote for one of our lovely candidates for Vice Chair! Meet the candidates!

Vote Here: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/apacible/180402

Elections for External Relations will begin early next week.

If you’re having trouble viewing the survey, please contact Elise – elised [at] cs [dot] washington [dot] edu .

Voting will close at 11PM PST on Saturday, October 13, 2012.

If this is your final quarter and you want to graduate in December, you must file graduation paperwork by tomorrow!

For students graduating winter, spring, or summer:  If you apply to graduate by Oct. 26th, you’ll receive graduating senior priority registration for winter and spring.  Your final deadline to file graduation paperwork is the third Friday of the quarter in which you want to graduate.

To book a graduation appointment, please follow the steps on “Applying for Graduation:” https://www.cs.washington.edu/students/ugrad/graduation/

Additionally, the CSE department is participating in a campus-wide survey of graduating students. Your participation is optional. If you participate, we will complete your graduation paperwork normally, then ask a few questions about the most challenging work you completed as a student. It will only take an additional 5 minutes. To prepare for this survey, you may want to take a look at your CSE courses and spend a minute or two thinking about which one stretched your thinking the most.

Hi CSE Undergrads,

We have received several requests from students applying to graduate school asking if we could introduce them to other students who are also going through this process. We thought this was a great idea, and would like to open this up to everyone. We’re thinking of hosting an event where all prospective graduate students in the department can meet and share tips, proofread essays, network, etc. We’ll also invite current graduate students in our department, so they can share with you what they did to get into their programs.

Who: All CSE undergrads considering grad school, especially those of you planning on applying in the near future.
What: Informal meetup (with snacks!) to connect with other undergrads going through the same process and with graduate students who want to share their advice for success.
When/Where: TBD in early November. Please fill out the survey if you are interested so we can get an estimate of how many people would like to come and what days/times would be best.

Again, if this sounds like something you’d like to attend, PLEASE RESPOND to the catalyst survey below. Filling out this survey doesn’t mean you have to attend the event. We’re just trying to gauge who would like to participate and what days work best.

Respond to: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/jpesicka/180548

Becky, our recruiter, is home sick today.  She sends her apologies, but wants to keep her germs to herself.

Office hours are scheduled next week from 10:00-12:00 noon on 10/17.