CSE Undergrad News

Hello CSE!

Join ACM-W to learn about the incredible research that the women in our department our doing. We will have a two panels: faculty and students (both grad and ugrad). Come and find out about the latest research in the department and get inspired to pursue your own research opportunities. 

Women in Research Panels
When: Monday, February 11, 2-4pm
Where: CSE1, Gates Commons

As always, all CSE students are welcome. RSVP here: https://goo.gl/forms/OlrfEeeBOLDEcRTs1. 

ACMW is committed to ensuring that our events are accessible for all students and is happy to arrange disability accommodations for students (with advanced notice). Please reach out to Raven Avery (our staff adviser) at ravena@cs.uw.edu if you have any questions or requests. Please note that we occasionally may not be able to fulfill a specific request, but will do the very best we can to ensure you have a positive experience at our event! 

Hello!

If you are passionate about promoting diversity and are interested in taking on a small leadership role in a CSE community, ACM-W is now offering an Associate Officer Program! Being an associate is a great way to get involved with a UW-CSE community, help promote diversity and inclusion initiatives, and hone leadership skills in a low-stakes position. Our primary goal for this program is to give students who are interested in being ACM-W officers a chance to experience what the role is like. You will be aiding the current ACM-W officers in planning events, contacting companies, taking on the role of historian, and maintaining communication throughout the group.

Please fill out our Google form if you are interested in this opportunity by Friday, February 15th at 11:59pm. https://goo.gl/forms/o489E97QBoHS8nIg2

We look forward to hearing from you, and we will be in touch with next steps.

Thank you, ACM-W Officer Team

Happy snow day, undergrads! This evening’s talk on Being Your Own Advocate in the Professional World by Kasey Champion has been rescheduled for Wed Feb 27, 5:30-6:30pm. Location TBD – watch for updates!

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Prep for your future, Tuesdays this winter! These talks by exciting guest speakers are intended to give valuable advice for CSE students as you prepare for life after college.

All talks are 5:30-6:30pm.

RESCHEDULED: Wednesday Feb 27: Being Your Own Advocate in the Professional World.
Kasey Champion, UW Alum, tech professional, and Allen School lecturer
LOCATION TBD!

Feb 12: Git Out The Vote: Coding For Politics
Krista Davis, Allen School alum, former Google employee, political campaign worker, and Chief Architect & Founder of Groundbase
Johnson 102. 

Feb 19: What a Senior PM Wishes Junior Developers Knew About Communication
Herman Forrest, Program Manager at Microsoft
Johnson 102. 

March 5: What You Really Need to Know in the First 5 Years of Your Career
Kasey Champion, UW alum, tech professional, and Allen School lecturer, and Kim Nguyen, Allen School Career Advisor
Johnson 102. 

Here is some additional information (as promised) on CSE 340:Interaction Programming, the new 300 level course being offered this spring 2019.

• First, it WILL count as a 300 level core course, so you should think of it as you do 333, 341, and 344.
• Second, there is an in-depth website with additional information by the instructor that you should check out for more information.

Please be sure to check the undergrad calendar for more information on upcoming events: https://www.cs.washington.edu/academics/ugrad/advising_calendar

Tuesday, February 5^th, 5:30-6:30 PM – Johnson 102

Allen School Winter Speaker Series: Life, Career, & Happiness after the Allen School

Talk title: Being Your Own Advocate in the Professional World
Speaker: Kasey Champion, UW Alum, tech professional, & Allen School lecturer
When: Tues, February 5, 5:30 p.m.
Where: Johnson 102

Thursday, February 7^th, 6:00-7:00 PM – ECE105

IdealSeat tech talk

Meet with the founders. More details to follow.

Several of you have noticed that the spring time schedule is already posted.

We just wanted to write to let you know about a few pending changes that are coming up.

1. 446 will move to MW 330-450pm and math 308 is strongly recommended. It will be added as an official prereq starting in the fall, but strongly recommended this spring as well.

2. 452 will move to MWF 230-320pm, right now 451 is still a listed prereq, but that will change to CSE 332 and 333 as the only required courses with 451 highly recommended. We’re hoping this change will go into effect for spring, but if it doesn’t, you’ll need adviser help registering and we’ll be in touch closer to registration on how that will work.

3. 473 will move to MWF 930-1020am

4. 340 is a new HCI course that will be offered in spring, it will have a temporary number of CSE 490L and will eventually move to 340. Course Description: User interfaces for computing systems, including principles and implementation techniques. Covers key topics and programming paradigms for interactive systems, such as event handling; graphical layout, design, and widgets; undo; accessibility; and context awareness. Provides experience with modern application domains and frameworks (e.g., mobile applications).

5. CSE 401 has been taught two different ways depending on who the instructor was (Hal Perkins vs. Ras Bodik).  It will now be officially moving to two separate numbers. The 401 this spring will eventually be called CSE 402. If you took 401, you can also take 402.  Here is the 402 description: Design and implementation of domain-specific languages.  Creation of new programming abstractions, formal and informal language specification techniques, implementation strategies to support language analysis and execution on traditional and non-traditional computing platforms.  Selection and use of appropriate software tools and development environments to build novel DSLs.

6. If you want to take a 500 level course, you’ll need to fill out the online request form.

7. And finally, a reminder, we do not overload CSE courses.  If any of these situations apply to you, please write or come in to speak directly with an adviser.

• You are graduating and must have a course to graduate and only that one course, and have been unable to register by the 2nd day of spring quarter.
• You had a problem beyond your control during registration
• You have been unable to register for ANY CSE course and it’s the first week of the quarter.

We know a lot of you worry,but we also know from years of experience that many many many students hoard courses (it would be great if you didn’t do that).  After they stop hoarding, most folks can get into courses they need.  Please try to be patient and work within the system.

Final note, the week of Feb. 11th and 18th the advising staff will be incredibly busy due to some unfortunate timing.  We will have new students being admitted with questions, we will have several hundred denied students wanting to know why they were not admited and we’ll be in the thick of spring registration with 1300+ current students. Please try to plan ahead or at least plan to be extra patient with getting questions answered, and know that we are doing the best we can to keep up.

Thank you everyone!

~CSE Advising: Crystal, Jenifer, Maggie, Chloe, Leslie, Kim and Pim

Crystal Eney
Director of Student Services
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & EngineeringBox 3523553800 E. Stevens Way NE Seattle, WA 98195206.685.7571 / fax 206.543.2969
ceney@cs.uw.edu / cs.washington.edu

Reminder that Winter Ball RSVP’s close TONIGHT at Feb 1st, 11:59PM. You can register via Eventbrite (https://acmwinterball19.eventbrite.com).

We are still looking for volunteers to help before/during/after Winter Ball. If you are interested in helping out with Winter Ball, please fill out the following form: https://goo.gl/forms/5NwNHFavexA0YIX12

We want to emphasize once more that while Winter Ball is the CSE department’s annual semiformal event, you do NOT need to bring a +1 and you are NOT required to dress up! Feel free to come by yourself and meet some awesome new people, dressed up or not. 🙂

Let’s talk money! How do you know if you have a good offer for a company? How do you begin to negotiate? Our host for the evening will be CSE’s resident career guru, Kim Nguyen, who will be explaining the in’s and out’s of negotiating a salary. Topics will include first steps, negotiation strategies, and working with numbers. As always, dinner will be provided if you RSVP! Come spend your Thursday evening with us, and gain valuable information about making the most of a job offer!

Can’t make it but have a good negotiation story?  Fill out the RSVP form with your story so that we can use it as a practice scenario.

What is SAC? We are a CSE student-run organization and our aim is to foster a positive learning environment for our peers by hosting events and discussion forums. We use input from you, the students, to guide our conversations with staff and faculty which ultimately lead to improvements in the school.

SAC is committed to ensuring that our events are accessible for all students and is happy to arrange disability accommodations for students (with advanced notice). Please reach out to csesac@cs.uw.edu if you have any questions or requests. Please note that we occasionally may not be able to fulfill a specific request, but will do the very best we can to ensure you have a positive experience at our event!

Event Details

Topic: Salary Negotiation

Date and Time: Feburary 7th 5:30 – 7pm.  Doors open at 5:15

Location: Gates Commons in CSE1

RSVP: https://goo.gl/forms/2rFrhqXgXUW2Na0k2

The Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-doctoral Research School 2019

“Emerging Research Trends in Computer Science”
https://cmmrs.mpi-sws.org

August 6-11, 2019
Saarbruecken, Germany

Applications are requested from undergraduate students or Master’s
students in computer science, computer engineering, or a related
discipline to The Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-doctoral Research
School. The third of this new annual series of week-long schools will
focus on emerging research trends in computer science, including
computer systems, heterogeneous architectures, machine learning and
teaching, data visualization, security and privacy, formal methods,
and programming language design. Leading researchers will engage with
attendees in their areas of expertise.

The curriculum will include lectures and interaction with faculty from
participating institutions.

The small, select group of attendees will be exposed to
state-of-the-art research in computer science, have the opportunity to
interact one-on-one with internationally leading scientists from three
of the foremost academic institutions in research and higher learning
in the US and in Europe, and network with like-minded students. They
will get a sense of what it is like to pursue an academic or
industrial research career in computer science and have a head start
when applying for graduate school.

For full consideration, applications should be received by February 7,
2019. Travel and accommodation will be covered for accepted students.

Further information about the school and how to apply can be found at
https://cmmrs.mpi-sws.org.

Prep for your future, Tuesdays this winter! These talks by exciting guest speakers are intended to give valuable advice for CSE students as you prepare for life after college.

All talks are 5:30-6:30 in Johnson 102. 

NEXT WEEK: Feb 5: Being Your Own Advocate in the Professional World
Kasey Champion, UW Alum, tech professional, and Allen School lecturer

Feb 12: Git Out The Vote: Coding For Politics
Krista Davis, Allen School alum, former Google employee, political campaign worker, and Chief Architect & Founder of Groundbase

Feb 19: What a Senior PM Wishes Junior Developers Knew About Communication
Herman Forrest, Program Manager at Microsoft

March 5: What You Really Need to Know in the First 5 Years of Your Career
Kasey Champion, UW alum, tech professional, and Allen School lecturer, and Kim Nguyen, Allen School Career Advisor