Hi all,
Four events this week:
Sincerely,
ACM
Hello!
We would like to invite you to our upcoming discussion forum, Understanding Diversity! We will have a panel of wonderful speakers featuring, Raven Avery, Harold Baker, Maarten Sap, Francisco Mendoza. They will be discussing the importance of diversity in computing and the efforts that are happening in the Allen School.
Through a moderated Q&A session, our panelists hope to share some of their thoughts as to why diversity is important and how we can all engage in diversity efforts. This is an opportunity for current UW CSE students to come together, ask questions, and share their experiences. We hope this discussion forum will create a space for constructive conversations and lead to actionable resolutions.
Important Event Information
Location: CSE 305
Date: Wednesday, February 7th
Time: 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
Please RSVP here so we know how much food to order!
Who are we?
The Computer Science and Engineering Student Advisory Council (CSE SAC) is the collective voice for undergraduate and masters’ students. This advisory council aims to use research-based methods to assess and understand students’ needs and collaborate with faculty and advisers on key issues such as diversity, social responsibility, and student wellness.
Hi all,
We will be emptying the fridges in the ACM lounge on Thursday 2/8 at 4pm, to store food for winter ball, so we’re asking you to please grab your food before Thursday afternoon! If you are interested in helping out at Winterball, please let us know by filling out this form. This is a great way to start being involved with ACM! And of course, please come to winter ball! We will be excited to see you there this Friday.
Good luck with midterms!
ACM
Short version:
Long version:
If you are planning to graduate in spring, summer or fall, you should make sure that you have filed your graduation paperwork. Starting this quarter it’s extremely important to do that if you want to get the classes you need to graduate. Once you file for graduation, you register early, before anyone else (even other seniors). You get 2 quarters of priority registration, so it’s worth it.
Second, after careful analysis of our overloading system, we found that it wasn’t serving the students best. Our attempt to be helpful led to unhelpful micromanaging. Therefore, after consultation with staff/faculty/students we are going to try a new system this spring. Starting spring quarter, we will no longer be managing overloads. If there is a full class you want to get into. You should sign up on the UW’s ‘notify’ tool and you should attend the first week to try to keep up in the course in case you do get a spot. We’ll monitor demand on notify and try to add more space when needed.
Here’s an example of why the old system didn’t work well. Lots of students wanted into 446, maching learning. We micromanaged the list, but by the end of the week, we were done with the list and there were still 3 spaces. Had we just opened it up, everyone who had wanted to get in, and put in the effort to attend the first week, likely would have been able to enroll. So hopefully this system will work best for everyone.
There are a couple of cases you can still reach out to us for help.
For everyone else, let’s give this new system a try and see how it goes. We’ll send out a survey a week or two into spring to see how it worked for everyone.
And finally, we’ll be working hard to adjust course sizes to meet demand as much as possible. You may not be able to take maching learning as a sophomore, but we are going to work hard to make sure everyone can eventually get into the courses they want and need.
Thank you!
CSE Advising
Overview:
Each year Microsoft awards tuition scholarships to encourage students to pursue studies in Computer
Science and related STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) disciplines. Recipients will
be awarded in recognition of their demonstrated passion for technology, academic excellence, and
leadership while working to push the software industry forward.
Eligibility:
● You must be enrolled full-time in a bachelor’s degree program at a four-year college or
university in North America at the time your application is submitted
● You must be pursuing a Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related STEM degree
● You must maintain a 3.0 cumulative grade point average out of a possible 4.0, or a 4.0 cumulative
grade point average out of a possible 5.0
Additional Details:
● Microsoft will make a one-time payment to the designated school, and amounts are not transferable
to other academic institutions
● You may use the funds for tuition only — not for other costs listed on your bursar bill like
room
and board
● Applications must be received by February 9, 2018
Apply today at www.microsoft.com/scholarship
Overview: Each year Microsoft awards conference scholarships to encourage students to pursue studies in Computer Science and related STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) disciplines. Recipients will be awarded in recognition of their demonstrated passion for technology, academic excellence, and leadership while working to push the software industry forward.
Eligibility:
• Applicants must be enrolled full time in a Bachelors, Masters, or PhD program at a four-year college or university in the United States, Canada, or Mexico at the time the application is submitted
• The Scholarship is open to students pursing Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related STEM field
Additional Details
Recipients receive paid registration to one of the following diversity conferences:
• Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (Sept 26-28, 2018 in Houston, TX)
• National Society of Black Engineers Conference (Dates & Location, TBD)
• Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Conference (Nov 7-11, 2018 in Cleveland, OH),
• Tapia Conference (Sept 19-22, 2018, in Orlando, FL)
• Applications must be received by May 5, 2018
Apply today at www.microsoft.com/scholarship
Be recognized for your passion for technology
Microsoft Diversity Conference Scholarship
In case you didn’t see this on the CSE Facebook page, there is exciting news that we’re having an internet pop-up shop for CSE swag! You can order stuff until February 12th, after which orders will be processed/shipped, and you should receive any ordered items around 2 weeks after that.
You can elect to have orders shipped to you directly or pick them up from advising (no shipping fees with this option!) with more details to come in the future.
CLARIFICATION: Just in case it’s a little confusing, the colors of the sweatshirts/t-shirts are exactly as they are on the ordering form. There are pictures on the site of CSE folks wearing other CSE swag, but the purple tees and gray sweatshirts aren’t what’s for sale!
Get your CSE items today: https://imagesource.ignitecx.com/UWAllenSchool2018
Hi all,
The following are events for this week:
Don’t forget winter ball is February 9th, get excited!
Have a great week,
ACM
Hello!
We would like to invite you to our first event of 2018 – The Future of CSE! Our two featured speakers are Director of Student Services, Crystal Eney and Deputy Director of the Allen School, Dan Grossman. They will be discussing the new admissions process for students hoping to major in CSE.
University of Washington’s current process of admitting students into engineering majors can be quite stressful and is a process unique to those of other large public universities. The UW College of Engineering has just implemented their Direct To College (DTC) Admissions Process and the Allen School has proposed doing something similar in the near future. More information about the College of Engineering’s process can be found here: https://www.engr.washington.edu/admission/directtocollege/faq.
Through a presentation and moderated Q&A session, Crystal and Dan hope to share some of their thoughts as to why this change is important and how it affects the future of the CSE community. This is an opportunity for current UW CSE students to come together, ask questions, and share their experiences. We hope this discussion forum will create a space for constructive conversations and lead to actionable resolutions.
Important Event Information
Location: The Gates Commons
Date: Thursday, February 1st
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Please RSVP here so we know how much food to order! Please make sure you are signed in to your CSE account in order to access this link. (NOTE: In order to best moderate this event, we ask that all questions for Dan and Crystal be submitted ahead of time via this link.)
Who are we?
The Computer Science and Engineering Student Advisory Council (CSE SAC) is the collective voice for undergraduate and masters’ students. This advisory council aims to use research-based methods to assess and understand students’ needs and collaborate with faculty and advisers on key issues such as diversity, social responsibility, and student wellness.
If you have any questions, feel free to email Kaitlyn Zhou (katezhou@uw.edu) and Geoffrey Wukelic (gwukelic@uw.edu).
Due to the increased popularity of Microsoft Office 365 and Azure applications, CSE Support will be implementing a new feature that syncs your Office365/Azure account password to your existing CSE Windows (csenetid) password. This will eliminate having separate passwords and having to rely on Support to change your Office365/Azure password for you. A couple things to note:
If you are currently logged into Office365/Azure your password may be different the next time you log in. Be sure to use your Windows password going forward.
If you have not set your Windows password yet (most of you already have) you’ll need to do so before logging into Office365/Azure.
We will implement this change on Monday 1/29/2018. Please contact support@cs with any questions about this new feature.
Thank you,
CSE Support
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A reminder about Leslie Berlin’s presentation (a dialog with UW
History professor Margaret O’Mara) at the end of the afternoon today –
HUB 214 at 4:30.
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 5:52 PM, Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu> wrote:
> As you make your plans for the coming week, I encourage you to include
> this event on Monday at 4:30 in HUB 214:
>
> https://www.cs.washington.edu/
>
> Leslie Berlin is the Project Historian at the Stanford Silicon Valley
> Archives. She’ll talk about her most recent book: “Troublemakers:
> Silicon Valley’s Coming of Age.” The format will be a conversation
> between Leslie and UW History professor Margaret O’Mara, who studies
> the history of tech regions. (Margaret has written two excellent books
> herself, and was the curator of the Bezos Center for Innovation at
> MOHAI.)
>
> As with visiting Paul Allen’s Living Computer Museum (which all of you
> should do!), this is a piece of understanding where we and our field
> came from.