CSE Undergrad News

CSE tutoring is available!

Welcome to Spring, CSE undergrads! This is a reminder that CSE offers free tutoring. If you’d like to join a group, we can offer tutoring for most 300-level courses and some 400s. Read the details and sign up online:

http://www.cs.washington.edu/students/ugrad/tutoring

Tutoring is limited by how many grad students volunteer, and which classes they are comfortable tutoring. We can’t always accommodate all requests. Tutoring is a commitment: please only register if you plan to meet with your group every week.

We’ll match groups at the start of next week, so sign up by Monday morning.

March 30, 2016

4th annual New Tech Seattle UW event, April 12, 5-7:15pm

Mark your calendars! It is time for the annual New Tech Seattle UW event! Please be sure to register.

4th Annual New Tech Seattle UW Event Featuring Presentations by:

DataBlade, Igneous, Wellpepper, KRNL Labs, Valant

Come discover the people, partners, organizations, and resources to help you connect to Seattle’s tech community at Seattle’s largest & most fun monthly event!

This is the place where you’ll make great connections, enjoy great food and drinks, celebrate presentations of new tech being created by Seattle area companies, laugh, smile, and have a fun night out.

Tuesday, April 12th, 2016 – 5:00PM to 7:15PM

Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering at UW 185 Stevens Way University ofWashington, Seattle, WA

RSVP NOW at https://newtechseattle.com Tickets are

$10 online NOW or $20 at the door

includes admission, light appetizers and a no-host bar

Students attend for Free! Use Promo Code: ‘student’

March 29, 2016

Research Opportunities: Sensor Systems and Mobile Systems Labs

The Sensor systems lab and the Mobile systems lab is looking for motivated undergraduate researchers to work on upcoming projects on backscatter communication. Check out group’s ongoing research at:

http://passivewifi.cs.washington.edu/

abc.cs.washington.edu

http://sensor.cs.washington.edu/

http://netlab.cs.washington.edu/

The upcoming projects will be on similar lines and involve working with hardware and writing software for MSP430 micro-controllers and FPGAs. We are looking for personnel with some prior experience in one of the following areas

1. Verilog and FPGAs

2. Embedded programming specifically MSP430s

3. Embedded Linux preferably with kernel hacking experience

4. Networking specifically Wi-Fi protocol stack.

Please not that it’s not necessary to have all the skills listed above to apply for the position.

The researchers are expected to work at least 10 hours/week on the project during the Spring quarter with a possibility to convert into a Summer internship position. If interested, please contact Vamsi Talla (vamsit@u.washington.edu).

March 25, 2016

Reminder: Microsoft Diversity Conference Scholarships Due 3/31

Microsoft is committed to advancing women and minorities in technology, and are awarding diversity conference scholarships to qualified applicants. Students are selected based on their exceptional leadership work in the promotion of diversity in STEM disciplines at their university. Applications are due March 31.

The Details:

Paid registration to one of the following diversity conferences. Applicants select their conference of choice.

o Grace Hopper Conference (October 19-21, 2016 in Houston, Texas)

o National Society of Black Engineers Conference (TBD, 2017)

o Out for Undergrad Technology Conference (TBD)

o Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Conference (TBD)

o Society of Women Engineers Conference (October 27-29, 2016 in Philadelphia, PA)

Travel, hotel, and meal stipend in the amount of $1,200 USD.
Microsoft will register the recipient to the awarded conference, and send a check directly to the recipient in the amount of $1,200 to cover travel, hotel, and meal expenses. These funds are not transferable to other individuals.

Criteria:

Students must be enrolled full-time in a bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD program at a 4-year college or university in North America at the time the application is submitted.
The scholarship is open to students pursuing Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related STEM degree.

Timeline:

February 9 – March 31, 2016 Open for applications
April 1 – April 8 2016: Review applications & select winners
April 15, 2016: All applicants notified of results

Apply Today!

Apply for the scholarship: www.microsoft.com/scholarship

(scroll down to where it says “conference scholarship”)

Questions? Please email scholars@microsoft.com

March 24, 2016

New research option for Spring! Get CSE elective credit!

Hello, CSE majors! We’re happy to introduce a new option that will count toward CSE senior elective credit. This Vertically Integrated Project credit allows undergrads to work on interdisciplinary teams. You have the option to work on a project for multiple quarters (although one quarter may be possible). This Spring, we have two projects available — read below for more details!

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CSE495 “Vertically Integrated Projects” is being offered for the first time in CSE this Spring quarter.

Join the UW Vertically-Integrated Projects (VIP) Program, which supports hands-on, project-based, undergraduate research and exploration.

The VIP Program operates in a research and development context, with teams of students and faculty working on real-world projects. Undergraduate students that participate in VIP earn academic credit for their participation in design/discovery efforts that assist faculty and graduate students with research and development issues in their areas of expertise.

The teams are:

Multidisciplinary – drawing students from all disciplines on campus;
Vertically-integrated – maintaining a mix of sophomores through PhD students each quarter;
Long-term – each undergraduate student may participate in a project for up to three years and each graduate student may participate for the duration of their graduate career.

There are two VIP teams currently in CSE: AccessMap & OSRead.

About AccessMap:

AccessMap is an effort to integrate multiple sources of data (municipal, GIS, OpenStreetMap, transportation, and many others) to produce a map and routing application that displays sidewalk information for mobility-impaired users. For example, the map shows elevation change data, curb ramps, and bus stop information. The routing algorithm, rather than optimize for shortest path, uses a customizable approach to routing and navigation to provide routes that are specific to an individual’s needs. We work on big data problems and use optimization and learning techniques to improve our search and user experience.

About OSRead:

OSREAD is an open source platform for Learning and Brain Science researchers to implement and measure the success of various reading, education and intervention curricula. An interesting challenge we are working on with OSREAD is to incorporate a variety of assessment and measurement tools, to provide learners and researchers feedback on student’s performance.

The course is offered for a variable (1-3) credits. Grading within VIP differs from that of typical courses that include exams, quizzes, and homework assignments. VIP grading is based on documentation, personal accomplishments, contributions, and teamwork.

Whether you want to apply and learn new skills in software, big data, UI/UX, accessible technology, education, or you are just interested in working collaboratively with peers from a variety of disciplines, we encourage you to apply for the VIP course. Send your CV and a short statement on why you would like to be involved to uwtcat@uw.edu to get the process started.

March 23, 2016

Summer CSE Course Offerings, Graduation, Course Overloads

Happy Spring Break! Here are a few updates/reminders from the advisors:

-This summer, CSE will be offering 331 and 333 (the summer time schedule online is not yet up to date- we will not be offering 332).

-If you plan on graduating in the spring, you must have a graduation application on file by April 15th. You can make an appointment with us, or come to drop-ins April 14th or earlier.

-If you would like to enroll in a CSE course that is currently full, plan on attending the first day of class. The instructor will have instructions about overloading.

March 22, 2016

Help with oSTEM and support LGBTQ+ students in science!

Dear UW STEM students, researchers, and faculty,

In order to address the lack of representation of LGBTQ+/Queer folks in STEM, I’m trying to restart the UW chapter of oSTEM. Ideally, this will be a support and networking group for LGBTQ+/Queer-identifying graduate and undergraduate students in the sciences, but I want the mission and goals to be community-shaped and -driven.

If you have any interest in helping out and shaping this group, email me at montoni@uw.edu and come to our interest meeting on Wednesday, April 20th at 5:30 PM at the Q Center (HUB 315).

Nicholas Montoni
Department of Chemistry

March 22, 2016

Get 3 credits learning about research, graphics, and animation!

CSE majors! If you’re interested in graphics or animation, generally want to learn more about research, or just need 3 more interesting credits, we still have space in our new Animation Research Seminar (CSE 464 – Section B).

This seminar meets one hour per week to discuss research in graphics and animation. Along with learning about these specific topics, you’ll learn the basic foundations of research in science and technology — reading and evaluating papers, and designing and implementing related research projects. You’ll work with amazing researchers to implement the projects.

More details from the webpage.

Fridays 2 – 2:50 pm in CSE 403.

3 credits

Computer Vision (CSE455), Graphics (CSE457), Machine Learning (CSE446), or Animation Capstone (CSE 458/460) are recommended but not required.

Email deepalia@cs.washington.edu for class add codes if you are interested.

March 18, 2016

Animation Research Seminar open to ugrads!

Hello Everyone,

Please join us for the *Animation Research Seminar* (CSE 464 – *Section B*).

Every week we will discuss papers on topics in Computer Graphics & Animation. This course will introduce the basic foundations of research in science and technology. We will be building the research skills by reading and evaluating papers along with designing and implementing related research projects. You will have amazing researchers working with you for implementing the projects.

Courses – Computer Vision (CSE455), Computer Graphics (CSE457), Machine Learning (CSE446) or Animation Capstone (CSE 458/460) are recommended but not required.

This is a great opportunity to learn about research going on in Animation and Computer Graphics. We encourage you to register! You can find more details from last year’s webpage: http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse464/15wi/

We meet every Friday 2 – 3pm in CSE 403, kickstarting the seminar on April 1st!

Please email me for class add codes if you are interested.

Thanks
Deepali

March 7, 2016

New 5-credit elective on innovation!

New Course for Spring! Innovation Readiness: Cultivating an Innovation Mindset

Do you want to be an innovator? A new course for undergraduate students introduces innovation as a process, not an accident, and presents skills for students to practice to foster an innovation mindset.

Goals: Through active learning, case studies, lectures and team exercises, students will learn how to:

Define problems for innovation
Create processes for solving problems
Design a personal innovation plan
Identify innovation in everyday settings
Work in multidisciplinary teams
Improve authentic social networking skills

Lectures: Monday/Wednesday, 9:30–11:20am

Lab: One hour on Fridays

Register via:

EE 299, section A (SLN 13294)
ME 295 (SLN 21326)
COM 495 (SLN 12542)

March 4, 2016