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UW is looking for some more Engineering students to participate in a photo shoot on Friday. CSE folks might be eligible too, just ask them.

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Many thanks to those of you that sent me your schedules and availability for the College of Engineering/UW photo shoots this week. They were very helpful as I pulled together this schedule. I apologize I was not able to accommodate everyone who wanted to participate – these shoots come up occasionally, so if you are interested in participating in future shoots, please let me know and I’ll save your contact information.

We are still looking for additional students to participate. If you have friends in engineering that would also be interested in coming to be photographed, feel free to bring them along and/or pass on this message. If they have questions they are welcome to e-mail or call me. 

Friday, May 4^th from noon to four is the current block we have with our photographer. There will be a few different locations for the shoot but we only ask that you arrive when you are able. You are free to stay for as many of the different shoots as interest you or that you are free for. If you show up and then location is empty, call me at 206-779-5044 and I will direct you to our shooting location – they should all be close together.

Currently we are scheduled to begin around 12:15 PM in Loew Hall, room 213 (part of the Engineering Academic Study Center) where we will photograph students in front of a white background. Following that, we will take pictures in a “study-hall” setting, a classroom, and on campus (if the weather is good) around the engineering buildings and the fountain. Again, if you arrive at the location and we are not there, just call and I will direct you to the next location. I will try to send out e-mail updates to participating students when we move locations.

These photographs will be used broadly across engineering and the UW, in marketing materials such as the web site, brochures and newsletters.

We ask that you dress in colorful, non-branded clothing (avoid logos and sayings). UW clothing is fine. Please avoid low-cut tops, short skirts and short shorts.

If you plan on attending on Friday and have not yet responded to me by e-mail with your availability, please let me know if you will be joining us and I will be sure to include you on any future e-mails with location updates etc. If you have responded saying you are available in the listed block of time, but will not be making it, it would also be helpful to know that as well.

Questions – let me know! Many thanks, and I look forward to seeing you Friday.

Regards,

Kristin

Kristin Hofmeister
Assistant Director of Advancement

Marketing and Communications
College of Engineering

Mail: 371 Loew Hall, Box 352180, Seattle, WA 98195
206.543-7556 fax 206.685.0666
khofmeis@uw.edu    www.engr.washington.edu

Social Innovation Leadership Series: Developing and commercializing appropriate social products for low-resource settings

Date: Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PM

Location: PACCAR Hall – 394

FREE BUT PLEASE REGISTER: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/gsec/165741​

Join the Global Business Center for its first Social Innovation Leadership Series on approaching product development and commercialization for social products in low-resource settings.

Featuring speakers Tim Elliott and Andy Beddoe from PATH, the workshop will present a case study to demonstrate this approach from PATH’s work in sanitation.

The event will also provide students the chance to learn about and find team members for the 2013 Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC).

This is a great practical learning opportunity for student in any discipline interested in entrepreneurship in developing economies and as well as participation in the 9^th annual GSEC.

Extensive time for Q & A and network will be provided.  Attendees will be recruiting for GSEC 2013 teams.

Topics covered:

·         Challenges of starting a business in developing economies

·         Multidisciplinary development teams

·         Product design, construction, financing, marketing, and sales considerations

·         PATH’s Commercialization Toolkit

Speakers:

·         Tim Elliott (Special Initiatives Officer, PATH)

·         Andy Beddoe (Technical Officer, PATH & UW Foster School EMBA)

Who should attend?

·         ALL STUDENTS interested in entrepreneurship in developing economies & apply to GSEC!

Questions?

·         Contact Wren McNally (wrenmc@uw.edu)

·         More info: http://www.foster.washington.edu/news/pages/eventdetails.aspx?id=b6067072-05c0-441b-97ce-ee69c3d5af0c&startDate=20120508

Co-promoter: UW Social Entrepreneurship Association (UWSEA)

TouchDevelop is a new way of developing mobile apps just ON the phone. No PC required.

You get a Windows Phone for 24 hours and your goal is to create the most awesome app using TouchDevelop.

See what others have already published at http://www.touchdevelop.com/gallery

Win Kinects, Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phones and other prizes!!! See you at the Commons (room 691)

May 4th  5pm – May 5th 6pm

Please join us on Wednesday, May 2^nd, at 3:30 p.m. in the Commons for this discussion.

Date:  May 2^nd, 3:30 p.m.

Where:  Gates Commons, Room 691

Panel members:  Glenn Kelman, CEO Redfin; Christophe Bisciglia, CEO WibiData; Dan Weld, Thomas J. Cable/WRF Professor; Alex Loddengaard, CEO MemCachier

Panel Moderator:  Oren Etzioni, WRF Entrepreneurship Professor

Why Work at a Startup?

Inspired by success stories like Google and Instagram, more UW students are now thinking about joining startups after they graduate.   Those of us in the startup world that know how amazing UW CSE graduates are — we wish we could see more UW CSE graduates in the startup space, changing the world with their creativity and passion.  On Wednesday, 5/2 at 3:30 pm in the CSE Commons, a few distinguished members of the startup community will come talk on a panel about why you should consider working at a startup.  You’ll hear from Glenn Kelman, Redfin CEO; Christophe Bisciglia, WibiData CEO and UW CSE alum; Dan Weld Thomas J. Cable/WRF Professor; and Alex Loddengaard, MemCachier CEO and UW CSE Alum talk about why you should consider working for a startup.  The panel will be moderated by Oren Etzioni WRF Entrepreneurship Professor.  This panel was originally inspired by a blog post Alex wrote, “10 Facts About Working at a Startup vs. a Big Company”

Glenn Kelman

Glenn is the CEO of Redfin, an online real estate brokerage based in Seattle. Prior to joining Redfin, he was a co-founder of Plumtree Software, a Sequoia-backed, publicly traded company that created the enterprise portal software market. Glenn was raised in Seattle and was graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.

Christophe Bisciglia

Christophe founded WibiData in 2010 after having founded Cloudera, the leading provider of Apache Hadoop-based software and services. Prior to Cloudera, Christophe was at Google, where he developed and taught a course at the University of Washington on the MapReduce data processing model and related topics in distributed computing. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Washington.

Alex Loddengaard

Alex is currently a co-founder at MemCachier, a company making caching easier in the cloud.  Earlier in his career he worked for Glenn Kelman at Redfin, and for Christophe Bisciglia at Cloudera.  In addition to working at two startups, he’s also worked at larger companies including Google, Atlassian, and Northrop Grumman.

Dan Weld

Dan is the WRF/TJ Cable Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at UW.  He co-founded Netbot Inc. (acquired by Excite), AdRelevance (acquired by Nielson Netratings) and Nimble Technology (acquired by Actuate). In addition, he serves as a member of Madrona’s Technology Advisory Board. At the University of Washington, Dan leads a research team applying machine-learning techniques to problems of Web search, information extraction, and adaptive user interfaces.  He earned bachelor’s degrees in both Computer Science and Biochemistry at Yale University in 1982, and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1988.

Oren Etzioni

Oren Etzioni is the WRF Entrepreneurship Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at UW and founder of Decide. Oren also founded Farecast, an early market leader in travel metasearch.  Farecast was acquired by Microsoft in 2008.  He was the Chief Technology Officer and board member of Go2Net Inc. (acquired by InfoSpace) and a founder of Netbot, Inc. (acquired by Excite).  At Netbot, Dr. Etzioni helped to conceive and design the web’s first major comparison-shopping agent. In 1995, he and his student Erik Selberg developed MetaCrawler, the Web’s premier Meta-search engine for several years. He also is a co-founder of Clearforest (acquired by Reuters).  He received his undergraduate degree in computer science from Harvard University, and his MS and Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.

We’ll be sending out information regarding the CSE ceremony in the next day or two, but please read this if you are hoping to participate in the larger UW ceremony, or need information on cap and gown or parking, etc.

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Complete information is available at www.graduation.uw.edu.

School and Departmental celebrations

You MUST purchase parking permits through the main UW site if you want to park on campus during the CSE graduation event.

Graduation vs. Commencement

Please remind students that there is a difference between signing up to officially graduate and signing up for the Commencement Ceremony.  To graduate and obtain a diploma, students need to fill out the proper paperwork from either, the Office of Graduation and Academic Records (undergraduates) or The Graduate School (graduates).  To participate in the Commencement Ceremony, students must register via the Commencement Registration/Order Form at www.graduation.uw.edu after completing their graduation paperwork.  The web form will be available from May 1 to May 20, 2012.

Names listed in the program – deadlines

The Commencement program lists the names of graduates from Summer 2011 through Spring 2012.  Note: Spring 2012 bachelor’s degree candidates must have their Application to Graduate submitted and received by the Office of Graduation and Academic Records by the April 13th deadline in order to have their names listed.  Master’s and doctoral degree candidates must have their Master Degree Request submitted, or Doctoral Final Exam scheduled, by April 13^th in order to have their names listed.  Summer 2012 graduates’ names will be listed in the following year’s program.  These deadlines apply only to the program.  They do not apply to participation in the ceremony itself.

Cords for College and Departmental Honors

If a student qualifies for these honors please ensure that you have submitted your Departmental Honors Invitation to the Honors Program (MGH 211 or Box 352800) by April 13, 2012.  Undergraduates will then be eligible to purchase special honor cords online when they order their caps and gowns.

Changes to Cap and Gown Pick up

Cap and gown pick up will be at the University Bookstore beginning May 22 – June 2.  Students will select their pick up dates online when placing their orders May 1 – May 20.

Thank you for your assistance in this process and I wish you all a successful graduation season!

Sara Griggs

Director

Office of Ceremonies

(206) 543-2592

Your Steps to a Great Commencement Day

CenturyLink Field – June 9, 2012

Visit www.graduation.uw.edu for complete ceremony information.

1. 1.        Eligibility:

Bachelor Candidates:  Students who earned a degree in Summer 2011, Autumn 2011, or Winter 2012, or have applied to graduate with a departmental advisor for Spring 2012 or Summer 2012 are eligible. Once the application for graduation has been completed and received by the Office of Graduation and Academic Records (206-543-1803), the student will be eligible to complete the Commencement Registration/Order Form.

Master’s, Doctoral or Professional Candidates: Graduates who earned their degrees in Summer 2011, Autumn 2011, or Winter 2012 or candidates who have a reasonable expectation of graduating in Spring 2012 or Summer 2012 are eligible to participate.

Names Listed in Program:  The Commencement program lists the names of graduates from Summer 2011 through Spring 2012.  Note: Spring 2012 Bachelor’s Degree candidates must have their Application to Graduate submitted and received by the Office of Graduation and Academic Records by the April 13th deadline in order to have their names listed. Master’s and Doctoral degree candidates must have their Master’s Degree Request submitted or Doctoral Final Exam scheduled, by April 13^th in order to have their names listed.  Summer 2012 graduates’ names will be listed in the following year’s program.  Students who do not wish to have their names listed in the program must contact the Office of the Registrar (206-543-5378) by May 1^st.

Honors: If you qualify for College or Departmental Honors, be sure you or your advisor has submitted your Departmental Honors Invitation to the Honors Program (MGH 211 or Box 352800) by April 13, 2012.  For information about baccalaureate honors visit: http://www.washington.edu/students/gencat/front/Deans_List.html.

1. 2.        Signing up and Ordering Apparel, Parking Permits, and Guest Tickets online 

Register/Place your order online:  May 1^nd – May 20^nd at www.graduation.uw.edu

Participants must register, order tickets, pre-paid parking permits (on-campus events only), and apparel no later than May 20^th via the above website.  Payment will be taken online when finalizing your order.  Visa, MasterCard, debit card, or valid checking account number will be accepted.

Apparel prices: Bachelor apparel (purchase only) – $45.00, Master’s apparel (purchase only) – $65.00, Professional apparel (rental) – $75.00, Ph.D. (rental) – $85.00.  See website for Professional/Doctoral purchase information.

Individual School/College or Departmental Ceremony participants must order via the above website by May 20^th, 2012, if your ceremony requires apparel or parking permits.  Parking permits ($14) are required for all ceremonies on campus occurring during normal parking hours or on June 9^th.  Payment will be taken online.

Travel and Parking at CenturyLink Field.

Option #1:  CenturyLink/Metro Express Parking. A package including Commencement Day parking in the Tower Garage or the Portage Bay Garage plus two roundtrip tickets on the CenturyLink/Metro Express buses will be offered to those who complete the Registration/Order Form.  The cost will be $14.   Those who purchase this package can add up to 4 more roundtrip tickets for $4.50 each.  Those who chose this option will be directed to the CenturyLink/Metro Express buses, which will run from University Way NE to 5^th and Jackson (in the tunnel) downtown, approximately two blocks from the stadium.

Option #2:  Park on campus in the Central Plaza or N1/N5 lots and take the local 71, 72, or 73 buses from University Way NE to downtown (5^th and Jackson).  Metro will honor U-PASSes for these routes on Commencement Day.  However, only students who purchase CenturyLink/Metro Express Parking (Option #1) will be able to ride the CenturyLink/Metro Express buses.

Option #3:  Park near CenturyLink Field. When students complete the Registration/Order Form they will be sent a link and code to obtain guaranteed pre-paid parking permits ($20) for CenturyLink Field. Special disability parking options will be available. This will be the only guaranteed parking.  Due to a Mariners game that day, parking surrounding CenturyLink Field will be very limited.  Day-of (non-prepaid) parking cannot be guaranteed and may cost $25 or more.

1. 3.        Pick-up Your Order:  May22^th – June 2^nd (students will select specific dates online) at the UW Book Store (during normal bookstore hours).

1. 4.       Come to CenturyLink Field, June 9^th, at 12:00 p.m. and celebrate!  CONGRATULATIONS!

From: Sabina Webb <sawebb@microsoft.com>
The Microsoft Windows Azure user experience team needs your help!  If you use Git regularly for source control  and deployment through Heroku and/or App Harbor, we are very interested in talking to you about participating in a usability study which would take place at the Microsoft Redmond Campus.  The session will take about 1.5 – 2 hours, and you will receive a gratuity for your participation, in addition to being able to test out the next release of Azure before it is made available to the public.

If you are interested in participating or have any questions, please send an email to sawebb@microsoft.com.  The sessions will take place starting the week of 4/30.  We will work with you to find out what date and time is most convenient for you to participate.

Sabina Alteras-Honig |  UX Researcher II 

sawebb@microsoft.com

Summer Business courses

The UW offers two business certificates programs designed to serve non-business majors for SUMMER QUARTER. These programs focus on practical business skills to complement your degree program and to enable graduates entering the business world to be more successful. Here are the two programs:

     Certificate in Business Essentials

• FOR MATRICULATED UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
• Courses in Marketing (3 credits), Accounting and Finance (3 credits) and Management (3 credits)

o   More information:  http://tinyurl.com/6pdq9zp

Certificate in Business Administration

• FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS (Seniors graduating in June may also qualify for admission)
• Graduate credit course ADMIN 510 (15 credits) – includes Marketing, Accounting, Finance, Management, Negotiation,
• More information: http://www.pce.uw.edu/certificates/business-administration-intensive.html
• Note: information on campus – Paccar 290 at 12:30 on Tuesday May 1^st

If you would like more information, please contact me by e-mail or phone.

Thanks,

Andy

Andrew Hoover | Senior Director | Educational Outreach| 206.221.7385 |ahoover@uw.edu

W UNIVERSITY of  WASHINGTON

This could be helpful for those of you who are looking for summer internships and/or full-time positions. If you are still looking, don’t forget to check the CSE Ugrad Jobs Blog. There are still companies looking to hire for this summer! (Remember, you are not automatically subscribed to the Jobs Blog. If you want to receive email notifications you need to edit your settings here: https://dada.cs.washington.edu/ugradjobs/)

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The CLUE Writing Center will be hosting a series of workshops on understanding the basics of resume and cover letter writing for job/internship applications. During these workshops, we present students with strategies they should be aware of with regards to these fairly structured documents, as well as highlight the major mistakes those of us just entering the job market/looking to gain experience often make.

I would greatly appreciate it if you would be so kind as to let your department’s students know via e-mail when these will be happening. The dates and locations are as follows (and both workshops take place from 7 PM–8 PM):

Monday, 4/30: MGH 228
Wednesday, 5/2: MGH 228

Also, for everyone’s information, we keep our workshop schedule updated on our Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/cluewc

And we’d like to let our students know that we’re offering a new service that involves help specifically on grammatical/linguistic concerns. Students may now send in specific questions/excerpts from their essays tocluewcdocs@gmail.com, which we’ll respond to in 2 business days, and check out our advice on syntax and similar concerns on our blog, located at: http://depts.washington.edu/clue/writingcenter/

Thank you in advance for your assistance, and for passing this info along.

Best,
Chelsie

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Chelsie Doherty
Writing Center Coordinator
Center for Learning and Undergraduate Enrichment
Mary Gates Hall, University of Washington
Office: (206) 543-5755

Please join us on Wednesday, May 2^nd, at 3:30 p.m. in the Commons for this discussion.

Date:  May 2^nd, 3:30 p.m.

Where:  Gates Commons, Room 691

Panel members:  Glenn Kelman, CEO Redfin; Christophe Bisciglia, CEO WibiData; Dan Weld, Thomas J. Cable/WRF Professor; Alex Loddengaard, CEO MemCachier

Panel Moderator:  Oren Etzioni, WRF Entrepreneurship Professor

Why Work at a Startup?

Inspired by success stories like Google and Instagram, more UW students are now thinking about joining startups after they graduate.   Those of us in the startup world that know how amazing UW CSE graduates are — we wish we could see more UW CSE graduates in the startup space, changing the world with their creativity and passion.  On Wednesday, 5/2 at 3:30 pm in the CSE Commons, a few distinguished members of the startup community will come talk on a panel about why you should consider working at a startup.  You’ll hear from Glenn Kelman, Redfin CEO; Christophe Bisciglia, WibiData CEO and UW CSE alum; Dan Weld Thomas J. Cable/WRF Professor; and Alex Loddengaard, MemCachier CEO and UW CSE Alum talk about why you should consider working for a startup.  The panel will be moderated by Oren Etzioni WRF Entrepreneurship Professor.  This panel was originally inspired by a blog post Alex wrote, “10 Facts About Working at a Startup vs. a Big Company”

Glenn Kelman

Glenn is the CEO of Redfin, an online real estate brokerage based in Seattle. Prior to joining Redfin, he was a co-founder of Plumtree Software, a Sequoia-backed, publicly traded company that created the enterprise portal software market. Glenn was raised in Seattle and was graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.

Christophe Bisciglia

Christophe founded WibiData in 2010 after having founded Cloudera, the leading provider of Apache Hadoop-based software and services. Prior to Cloudera, Christophe was at Google, where he developed and taught a course at the University of Washington on the MapReduce data processing model and related topics in distributed computing. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Washington.

Alex Loddengaard

Alex is currently a co-founder at MemCachier, a company making caching easier in the cloud.  Earlier in his career he worked for Glenn Kelman at Redfin, and for Christophe Bisciglia at Cloudera.  In addition to working at two startups, he’s also worked at larger companies including Google, Atlassian, and Northrop Grumman.

Dan Weld

Dan is the WRF/TJ Cable Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at UW.  He co-founded Netbot Inc. (acquired by Excite), AdRelevance (acquired by Nielson Netratings) and Nimble Technology (acquired by Actuate). In addition, he serves as a member of Madrona’s Technology Advisory Board. At the University of Washington, Dan leads a research team applying machine-learning techniques to problems of Web search, information extraction, and adaptive user interfaces.  He earned bachelor’s degrees in both Computer Science and Biochemistry at Yale University in 1982, and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1988.

Oren Etzioni

Oren Etzioni is the WRF Entrepreneurship Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at UW and founder of Decide. Oren also founded Farecast, an early market leader in travel metasearch.  Farecast was acquired by Microsoft in 2008.  He was the Chief Technology Officer and board member of Go2Net Inc. (acquired by InfoSpace) and a founder of Netbot, Inc. (acquired by Excite).  At Netbot, Dr. Etzioni helped to conceive and design the web’s first major comparison-shopping agent. In 1995, he and his student Erik Selberg developed MetaCrawler, the Web’s premier Meta-search engine for several years. He also is a co-founder of Clearforest (acquired by Reuters).  He received his undergraduate degree in computer science from Harvard University, and his MS and Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.

If you like free money you should apply. So far only one Comp E major has submitted an application… get on it folks!

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The College of Engineering scholarship application for the 2012-2013 academic year is open now. The application will close on May 1 at 5pm.

http://www.engr.washington.edu/curr_students/scholarships.html

CSE takes scholarship applications twice per year. You should apply during this application period if:

• You are a Computer Engineering major. CSE only has a small amount of need-based awards to give out this application cycle, given to us by the College of Engineering, which means that only CE students are eligible to receive them.
• You wish to be considered for College of Engineering awards such as Emerging Leaders, etc.: http://www.engr.washington.edu/curr_students/studentprogs/emergingleaders.html (CE and CS majors eligible, be sure to select “College of Engineering” when applying).

The bulk of the 2012-2013 CSE scholarships are awarded during the summer application period (Aug 1-Sept 1). So if you don’t fit into any of the above categories, don’t worry. You have a second chance!