CSE Undergrad News

Hey CSE Students!

To help plan your courses, CSE faculty complied a page of ‘course advice’ for specialized career paths (this is the page that was was mentioned during the pizza lunch with the chair). Linked here, this information was created by faculty and posted by the advisors, with the intention of providing you all with a better understanding of what courses will help prepare you for specific areas/fields in computer science and beyond.

As this is a new effort, please send your feedback (especially positive feedback!) about the helpfulness of this page to ugrad-advisor@cs.

Link: http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/ugrad/current/CourseAdvice/course_advice.html

Thanks!
CSE Undergraduate Advising

Working late in the labs? Don’t walk across campus alone! Husky NightWalk offers full-time uniformed security guards to assist students, staff, and faculty members to various locations on campus and within a one-mile radius off campus. Just call to request someone to walk with you to your dorm, apartment, or anywhere else near campus!

206-685-WALK (9255) – please put this in your phone to easily access it!

Hours: 6pm – 2m, Monday – Sunday (7 days week)

Although aiding primarily on foot, the guards have a van available for those who need it. In addition, they are equipped to help people, with proper ID, who cannot get into their offices, buildings, or vehicles. They also can assist with jump starts for dead batteries, and are extra eyes and ears in parking lots and other UW facilities.

Please utilize this service, and encourage your friends to do so!

Hello fellow CSE-majors,

It’s another one of those crazy unpredictable event filled weeks!!!  Here’s what’s on the menu:

1.) Cisco Info Session, TODAY, 6-7pm, EE125

“Welcome to the Human Network Cisco is more than just routers. Dinner will be served plus a FLIP Video Raffle.”  Internship and job info. For more information, please visit www.cisco.com/go/universityjobs.

2.) UW CSE Affiliates Dinner, Thursday, The Atrium, October 28, 9am – 3pm

This is UW CSE’s exclusive, amazing, renowned career fair and recruitment event.  There are going to be SOOO many companies, there will be something for everyone.  You can’t miss this.  Dress nice to make a good impression.  Bring lots of copies of your resume.  Also dont forget to upload your resume prior to the fair. Go to https://www.aftercollege.com/career-networks/university-of-washington/department-of-computer-science-and-engineering/ (Just go to “Sign Up” at the top of the page and follow the steps.)

3.) Smoothie Day, Friday, October 29th, 330-430, CSE Atrium

We make smoothies out of yummy ingredients.  Quick, easy, tasty, and social way to welcome the weekend! A 2$ donation is greatly appreciated!

4.) ACM Local Programming Competition, Saturday October 30th, 10am-230pm, CSE 002 and CSE 006

This is organized by Stuart Reges and Marty Stepp.  This Saturday is a preliminary competition to determine 3 teams to represent UW CSE at the regional competition at University of Oregon on Saturday, November 13.  The programming languages available to use include C, C++, and Java.  I believe the teams are of three people each, start looking for teammates now! Information on team sign ups and official details will go out soon!  This is a fantastic contest to be a part of (a resume entry? especially if you make it to the next round!).  There will be free lunch and goodies sponsored by Google and/or Facebook.  Don’t be discouraged if you are new to the department, you only need to be familiar with one language (we hope you didn’t forget 142/143).  No preparation is necessary, just form a team and show up! More details soon..

For the Future

5.) Tech Talks, Tuesday 11/2, Facebook, Thursday 11/4, Amazon

6.) ACM Fall Fest, Friday November 5th, 5-9pm, More details soon!

7.) Research Night, Wednesday November 10th, 430-7pm
Enjoy the Events!!!

Chris Raastad

ACM Internal Relations

Every year, Google searches the globe looking for highly technical, passionate, and motivated new grads for the Google Associate Product Manager program. The APM program is an elite two-year rotational program, consisting of two one-year rotations, designed for top recent computer science graduates who are interested in exploring product development and leadership opportunities. This select group is given access to unparalleled resources within Google to define new products, work closely with creative and prolific engineers, interact with executives to influence the business, and develop both personally and professionally.

For more information about the role please see: http://www.google.com/jobs/students/us/technical/associate-product-manager-new-grad-north-america-locations/

What: Coffee Chat with a Google APM!
Where: Paul G. Allen Computer Science Building (details will be mailed out individually)
When: Friday, October 29th

Sounds great, how do I sign up?: Please submit your resume and transcripts to uw-apm-recruiting@google.com, by Wednesday, October 27th.  Since we have limited spots available, we will inform you by Thursday, October 28th if you’ve been selected for a coffee chat.

From Professor Richard Ladner:

Dear Undergraduates,

In winter quarter 2011 the Accessibility Capstone Design Course will be offered for the second time.  Please see the web page

http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse481h/10wi/

to view the previous offering of the course.  The offering this time will be similar, but the projects will be new.  You should also look at the KOMO TV story about the course to give you an idea what students did last year.

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/87737592.html

Again, in 2011, students will design, implement, and test smart phone accessibility applications on the Android platform.

In preparation for the class there will be a one-month non-credit short course starting the week of November 8^th at a time to be determined.  The short course will cover Android development and an introduction to access technology for people with disabilities.  Students in the short course will be able to keep an Android phone over the holiday to become more familiar with the development environment.  There will also be some reading to prepare for the class. The short course is not a requirement, but is highly recommended.

Please fill out the catalyst questionnaire below by November 1st if you are interested in this capstone design course.

https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/ladner/114582

Thank you,

Richard Ladner

Boeing Professor in Computer Science and Engineering

REMINDER!!!

Palantir Tech Talk, Today, 600pm-730pm, CSE Atrium

IPAD Raffle: MUST be present to win! I.e. you must stay for the whole talk, (dine and dashing is discouraged… you know who you are!)

It should be a fun talk! Lots of great opportunities out there!

Chris _________

ACM _________

Hey all,

The department is gearing up to provide more CSE specific outreach opportunities for CSE undergraduates.  Committees are meeting to push forward a variety of outreach opportunities, but they need your help!  Please fill out this catalyst survey right now, before you forget, if you are at all interested in spreading the joy of CSE to the world and getting involved in the community.

https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/cseadv/114529

There is absolutely no binding commitment by filling out the survey, we are just looking to gather general information about what CSE and non-CSE outreach you have done in the past.  Try to fill out the survey before noon, Monday, October 25th, but sooner is always better than later!  =)

Thanks!

Chris Raastad

ACM Internal Relations

Sorry about that last post, I meant to say check your MyCSE linked from the current CSE students webpage, not your MyUW to see if you have a projected graduation date.

To all graduating seniors (or those who want to graduate Winter, Spring or Summer).

If you file your graduation paperwork by November 3rd and are graduating in winter or spring, you’ll receive graduating senior priority for the next two quarters. Ideally we’d like to two days in advance if you are planning to come in since many of you are transition students and it’s helpful if we can prep your paperwork before you get here.

You can check the main calendar on the current student site: http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/ugrad/current/
to find out when dropins are going to be held. We will also try to add some additional hours just for graduation appointments.

Go to this link to tell us what day you hope to come in.  https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/cseadv/114482

If you don’t remember whether or not you’ve been in yet to file, you can go to your MyUW and check the projected graduation date on the front page. If that isn’t there but you’re still pretty sure you came in, just email us and we’ll look it up for you.

Thanks Everyone,
CSE Advising

Generally we only forward CSE relevant events, but this one you folks could have some good input on, so I’m forwarding this too.

From: Dowell Eugenio
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 3:57 PM
Subject: Looking for focus group volunteers to work with UW Registrars Office

The Office of the University Registrar (OUR) is interested in making the registration tools available via MyUW more useable and easy to understand. They are looking for student users of MyUW to participate over the next few weeks in a focus group and provide input for the upcoming video tutorial for using MyUW. This is an opportunity to tell OUR what you would like to see and learn in that tutorial.

If interested, please fill out the survey at https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/wtwynn/114193. If you are selected you will receive a confirmation email within 3 business days of your submission and selected participants will receive a $10 credit on their Husky cards upon completion of the focus group.

If you have any questions, please contact me or Fang Lin (fanglin@uw.edu) for more information.

Dowell Eugenio
Academic Adviser, Informatics

University of Washington
Information Schoool
email: deugen3@uw.edu
phone: 206.616.8721