CSE Undergrad News

From Engineering College:
Make an impact in Engineering at UW.
Enroll in ENGR 498C: Leadership Development to Promote Equity in Engineering Relationships (P.E.E.R.s).
This 1-credit seminar enlists engineering students’ creativity and social conscience to create an inclusive environment at the College of Engineering. Students explore topics like diversity, unconscious bias, stereotype threat, privilege, and learn how to be an ally.
Students who successfully complete the P.E.E.R.s seminar are eligible for internship opportunities as PEER Leaders.

Course Instructors: Dr. Joyce Yen, UW ADVANCE and Dr. Sapna Cheryan, Psychology

ENGR 498C
Fall Quarter 2011
Tuesdays 1:30-2:20 PM
Location TBD
For more info e-mail peers@uw.edu
or visit us at www.engr.washington.edu/peers/

Think you got game? Compete for victory in challenges that test your creative and mental mettle at Google Games Seattle! Teams of five will go head to head in rigorous events: Geek Trivia, Lego Building, Puzzles, Coding Competition, and Game Blitz.

Find four friends (Computer Science background strongly recommended) and register here. Can’t find a team? Sign up as an individual and we’ll put you in a team with others. In addition to the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, Google will also be supplying free refreshments to all participants and prizes to our top competitors. Bring it on!

Google Games Seattle
Date: Saturday, May 14
Time: 10:00am to approximately 4:00pm
Location: Google Seattle (651 N. 34th Street, Seattle, 98103)

Registration Form:
https://spreadsheets7.google.com/viewform?hl=en&hl=en&formkey=dGNuSDNhODBjZUlIUFBNN1ZKTE0tUXc6MA#gid=0

Deadline to register: FRIDAY, MAY 6

FAQ
Q.Can we have less than five members on our team?
A. We strongly recommend having the maximum number of members – any less and you’ll lose your competitive edge.

Q. Do you have to be a current student to participate?
A. Yes, you must be currently enrolled at the University of Washington to participate.

Q. Can we replace a member before the start of the event?
A. Sure. Just let us know (googlegames@google.com) about the new team member and who is being replaced.

Q. Should our team wear uniforms?
A. Show your team’s spirit however you choose: uniforms, team dance, team flag or poster, cheer, fight song, etc. A prize will be awarded to the team with the most spirit. Check out past Google Games here and here for inspiration.

Q. Will transportation be provided?
A. No, you will have to provide your own transportation. Use Metro Transit’s TripPlanner (bus #31 runs from the U District to Fremont) or drive – parking information to come!

Q. Will food be provided?
A. We will be providing lunch, snacks and drinks. If you have any dietary restrictions, please note this in the form and we will be sure to accommodate you.

Please direct other questions to googlegames@google.com.

Hey Ugrads,

Now that tech talks are winding down you’re not hearing, as much from us….

But, we have an opportunity for you!  Have you ever noticed geeky-tech-fabulous in house T-Shirts older CSE majors wear around on occasion? Ever thought of an epic T-Shirt idea you want to show the (cse)  world!  Then now is your chance! We want YOU to create the most clever hilarious 1337 (elite) shirts you can think of.  Your creation could join the ranks of the CSE classics such as the One Root Ugrad Tree, Cat, or “MAN Shirt”.  We want these designs no later than Tuesday, April 26th by 11:59pm. Designs can be submitted to this catalyst dropbox

https://catalyst.uw.edu/collectit/assignment/stever4/15452/58535

Here is the fine print:

• The designs must be scalable, ie, a PDF or PSD, not compressed separated by color
• We will not accept any design with more than 2 simple colors (ie Black, White, Blue, Green, Red, etc…)
• We strongly encourage 1 color designs (to keep costs down for not very large orders)
• Your design can have a front and back component.
• You may choose the T-Shirt color (within reason, please try to keep it to basic colors)
• We will try to get American Apparel shirts since that is what people mostly prefer!
• We have the right to modify your design slightly to make it printable, we will tell you if we need to do this.

And the selection process

• We will have both girl and guy styles and sizes of shirts, make sure the design is generally accepted!
• We will consider all T-Shirt designs for printing
• We will then send an electronic preorder form (this will act as a design vote)
• If your design get’s a reasonable number of preorders, and the orders/cost ratio works out, it will be printed and sold. Surplus shirts will likely be purchased for future sales depending on number of preorders and awesomeness of the shirt
• We hope to have shirts in and distributed at the CSE BBQ on May 20th, but we can’t guarantee anything!

Remember the best designs are simple, clever, humorous, and make us proud to be CSE Majors!

Looking forward to awesome T-Shirt designs!!!!

Chris Raastad

ACM Emailing Guy

From: Kristina Wang <wangkl@aa.washington.edu>

One of our direct freshmen admission students for next fall is visiting campus today. If anyone is available/willing to help out by giving him a tour of the building please let me know.

I’m meeting with him to talk about the department, etc from 3:30-4pm so he’ll be ready for a tour directly after.

Thank you!

Elise

elised@cs.washington.edu

Discover how your degree in mathematics, natural sciences, engineering, economics, or finance can lead to a career in quantitative finance with the Berkeley MFE program.

The Berkeley MFE Program, which was launched in 2000, has helped hundreds of students begin rewarding careers on Wall Street, London, Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris, and many other financial centers around the world.

If you are interested in a graduate degree in finance or financial engineering, I invite you to learn more about our program at one of our upcoming information sessions.  (NOTE: We cannot evaluate your profile if you have an active application to our program):

UPCOMING BERKELEY MFE INFO SESSIONS

Seattle, WA

Date: April 27, 2011

Location: The Hyatt at Olive 8, 1635 8^th Avenue, Seattle (please click here for directions)

Time: 6:00-7:00 PM, Refreshments Served

Information session and Q&A on the Berkeley MFE.  Alumni and staff will be present and executive director Linda Kreitzman will review your background and discuss career paths via webex.

Please register here for the event.  Students at all levels and graduates are welcome.

Can’t make it?  Join us at one of our upcoming online info sessions, held biweekly. Upcoming online sessions:

May 4, 2011 at 2 pm Pacific time.

Web conference sessions and Q& A with executive director Linda Kreitzman, current students and admissions staff.

Please register and upload your resume prior to the event for an on-the-spot background assessment.

May 18, 2011 at 10 am Pacific time.

Web conference session and Q& A with executive director Linda Kreitzman, current students and admissions staff.

Please register and upload your resume prior to the event for an on-the-spot background assessment.

Please register for all sessions at https://ssl.haas.berkeley.edu/MFEAdmissions/events/.    All are welcome.

We look forward to meeting you.

Regards,

Christina Henri

Assistant Director, Admissions
The Berkeley MFE

Haas School of Business

University of California at Berkeley

Berkeley, CA 94720-1900

Phone: (510) 642-4417

Fax: (510) 643-4345

http://mfe.haas.berkeley.edu

Hey All,

It turns out the ACM elections are completely over!!!  For the elections not held, the candidates won by default! Here are the final results!

Chair: James Athappilly

Vice Chair: Milda Zizyte

Internal Relations: Tim Vega

External Relations: Jim Ionue

Treasurer: Peter Brook

Event Coordinator 1.5: Mary Pimenova

Event Coordinator 1.5: Steven Rutherford

Congratulations to our new ACM Officers!  I’m sure you will do a fine job when you take over next year!

In other news there is a Tech Talk TONIGHT at 6pm from a company that works heavily with Government Contracts, do check it out!!!

Chris Raastad

ACM Spambot-Not-For-Much-Longer…

Hey all,

A few random things…

0.) Berico Tech Talk

When: Wednesday April 13th (Tomorrow), 6:00pm-7:30pm

Where: CSE Atrium

What: Is SQL Dead? Please join Berico Technologies Senior Engineer Soup Shah as he explores the use of traditional Relational Databases vs. the new NoSQL/Cloud database approach. Discussions will take a high level approach before diving into the internals of the question and examining when is an appropriate time to use each one of the two paradigms. Following discussion of the main topic, Soup will answer any questions regarding cloud computing as well as its application in the national security arena. Food and beverages will be provided by Berico Technologies.  www.bericotechnologies.com   Presented by Sapan “Soup” Shah.

This company is from the East Coast, in D.C.,  (which is pretty rare for a tech talk here, 5 hour flights aren’t fun!) so it might be interesting to drop by.

1.) UW Spring Career Fair

When: Thursday April 14th, 3pm-7pm

Where: Alaska Airlines (no longer Bank of America) Arena

What: It’s UW’s largest career fair. But there are a fair number of tech companies that will be present eager to higher Software Engineers (aka us!).  If you are still looking for a job or internship do stop by! See the list for yourself, http://www.scribd.com/doc/52508971/2011-SCF-Employer-Guide.

2.) Greening-up-the-Labs

We are very fortunate for our printing privilegedes!  Now here is a way to automatically end those pesky cover sheets from printing from linux machines.  Run the following script in linux:

#!/bin/bash
# Sets the ugrad lab printers to print double-sided  without header pages
# Author: Krysta Yousoufian, 10/11/10

# Print double-sided in 002, 003, 006, and 022
lpoptions -p ps002 -o Duplex=DuplexNoTumble
lpoptions -p ps003 -o Duplex=DuplexNoTumble
lpoptions -p ps006 -o Duplex=DuplexNoTumble
lpoptions -p ps022 -o Duplex=DuplexNoTumble

# Turn off header pages in 002, 003, 006, and 022
lpoptions -p ps002 -o job-sheets=none
lpoptions -p ps003 -o job-sheets=none
lpoptions -p ps006 -o job-sheets=none
lpoptions -p ps022 -o job-sheets=none

Once again thank Krysta Yousoufian for that tip! (Sorry for the delay… and we are still not sure how to do it automatically for windows!)

3.) Vote!

ACM elections are still going! Please vote!

Event Coordinators: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/jtmasaki/130683 (remember to vote for 2)
External Relations: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/jtmasaki/130685

Please vote by 11:59pm Tuesday April 12th (aka TODAY).

Enjoy the sunshine!

Chris/ACM

——– Forwarded message ———-
From: Ruth Anderson <rea@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:46 PM
Subject: CSE students needed for Ultrasound Research project
Cc: Crystal Eney <ceney@cs.washington.edu>
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A woman dies in childbirth every 70 seconds; the majority of these deaths take place in Africa and Asia.  Ultrasound imaging is an effective tool for identifying maternal mortality risk factors. Unfortunately, ultrasound is nearly absent in many rural health care facilities in developing regions due to the high costs of both equipment and required training. The Mobile Midwives’ Ultrasound project has built a low-cost portable ultrasound system designed specifically for use by midwives with limited medical training in developing regions.

The Mobile Midwives’ Ultrasound project is looking for a couple of CSE undergrads to join our group.  We are an interdisciplinary group consisting of undergrads, grad students and faculty from CSE, HCDE, and Radiology.  We have produced a working prototype of our system which a group including (a CSE undergrad) just got back from testing in Uganda over spring break.

CSE students working on the project can expect to be involved in all aspects of the research process: designing, developing, testing, and traveling to test deployments in the field as well as writing publications about the research. Students should be available to work on the project at least during the 2011-2012 academic year, and preferably during summer 2011 and 2012 and beyond.

If interested, please send email to Ruth Anderson (rea@cs.washington.edu)

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More information about the project including publications can be found here:

http://change.washington.edu/projects/mobile-midwives-ultrasound

Hello Everybody,  (hello Dr. Nick)

Congratulations to James Athapilly and Milda Zizyte as our newly elected ACM Chair and Vice Chair.

One friendly reminder about elections, we realize this is a catalyst poll and everyone with a uwnetid can vote.  Note that we are CSE majors, and we are checking to see if the people voting are in the CSE department.  All votes outside of the department will be discounted.

Todays elections are:

Event Coordinators: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/jtmasaki/130683 (remember to vote for 2)
External Relations: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/jtmasaki/130685

Please vote by 11:59pm Tuesday April 12th.

Enjoy the random sunshine!

Chris Raastad

ACM