What to register for autumn quarter…? (before admission decision)

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A fre­quent ques­tion about this time of the year is what to reg­is­ter for autumn quar­ter when reg­is­tra­tion takes place in May, but stu­dents don’t know if they will be admit­ted to their major of choice.

For those apply­ing to CEE for upper-division admis­sion, please select autumn quar­ter courses accord­ing to your “Plan B” — that is, what you would take if you were not offered CEE admis­sion.  These courses will be place­holder classes for now.  If you are offered admis­sion to the major, you will be pro­vided with add codes and instruc­tions for the required set of 300-level CEE courses to take autumn quar­ter.  You will then be able to drop your place­holder classes and add the CEE courses over the sum­mer.  The 300-level CEE courses are reserved for new CEE majors, so don’t worry about try­ing to secure them at this time (before admis­sions notification).

Happy reg­is­ter­ing~!

It’s spring quarter — getting ready for application time!

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It’s spring quar­ter and near­ing the appli­ca­tion period for engi­neer­ing majors at the UW, includ­ing Civil & Envi­ron­men­tal Engi­neer­ing.  Online appli­ca­tions for Autumn Quar­ter admis­sion will be accepted begin­ning June 20 and close on July 1, 2013, at 5pm.  You can learn more about the engi­neer­ing appli­ca­tion online.

After the July 1 dead­line, the CEE Under­grad­u­ate Admis­sion Com­mit­tee will review appli­ca­tions and aim to get admis­sions deci­sions out to stu­dents by the last week of July.  This will be sent to you via email, so please look for the CEE deci­sion notice (and check your junk mail.)   Stu­dents offered admis­sion will be asked to reply to accept or decline our offer of admis­sions using an online form.

Stu­dents offered upper-division admis­sions will be pro­vided with instruc­tions on how to reg­is­ter for the required set of 300-level CEE courses to be taken in autumn quar­ter.   Stu­dents offered admis­sion through direct and early admis­sion will be assisted in their course planning.

All newly-admitted CEE majors, includ­ing those admit­ted via Early Admis­sion and Direct Fresh­man Admis­sion options, should plan to attend the CEE Ori­en­ta­tion for New Majors sched­uled for Mon­day, Sep­tem­ber 23, 2013.    Newly admit­ted trans­fer stu­dents must attend the University’s Advis­ing and Ori­en­ta­tion Ses­sion dur­ing the sum­mer as well as the CEE depart­men­tal orientation.

Stay tuned for more infor­ma­tion!  This blog is active from spring to autumn quar­ter to help stu­dents and appli­cants stay informed and updated about the CEE appli­ca­tion and admis­sions processes.

 

 

Information Sessions for prospective students

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Are you a prospec­tive stu­dent seek­ing admis­sion to the civil engi­neer­ing pro­gram at the UW for autumn 2013?  Or you may a high school or com­mu­nity col­lege stu­dent con­sid­er­ing Civil & Envi­ron­men­tal Engi­neer­ing (CEE) at the UW as a pos­si­ble major.   Attend a CEE Infor­ma­tion Ses­sion and learn about the major from fac­ulty, stu­dents, and the CEE advi­sor.  Infor­ma­tion ses­sion dates for autumn 2012 are now on the CEE Web­site for prospec­tive undergraduates.

The next one is sched­uled for Fri­day, Octo­ber 12, from 3:30–4:20pm in More Hall on the UW Seat­tle cam­pus.  Hope to see you there!

CEE Orientation Information (emailed to you)

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New majors should have received infor­ma­tion regard­ing the CEE Ori­en­ta­tion for New Majors via email today.  You’re invited to attend either ses­sion, on Wednes­day (9/19) or on Fri­day (9/21), regard­less of how you replied online. I rec­om­mend Wednesday!

Enjoy your Labor Day week­end!  We’ll see you in sev­eral weeks!

Get your UW email!

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Some stu­dents still haven’t set up their UW email account and are using a com­mer­cial account (such as Hot­mail or Yahoo) as their pri­mary email for the UW.  Not a good idea. Please set up a UW email account and for­ward this to your per­sonal email account, if needed.   Gmail is good as the UW has a GoogleApps con­tract.  Of the com­mer­cial accounts, Hot­mail and Yahoo often seem to have more prob­lems with email deliv­ery, viruses, and spam than oth­ers.  In any case, please be sure you’re receiv­ing email sent to your UW account.

CEE email list for majors (“civeugs”)

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All newly-admitted CEE majors will soon be sub­scribed to the CEE Majors email list (called “civeugs”), so look for the sub­scrip­tion con­fir­ma­tion to arrive via your UW email!  Soon there­after, you’ll start receiv­ing infor­ma­tion and announce­ments of inter­est to all CEE majors — like oppor­tu­ni­ties for schol­ar­ships, intern­ships, study abroad, research involve­ment, course changes, spe­cial events, and much more — so don’t miss out!

(This email list, run by the UW Mail­man ser­vice,  has the odd-sounding name of “civeugs,”  but appar­ently, my pre­de­ces­sor had good inten­tions in nam­ing it — it is short for “civil engi­neer­ing undergrads.”)

Stu­dents can post announce­ments of inter­est to the CEE majors list as well by writ­ing to civeugs@uw.edu, but it is a mod­er­ated list, so there may be a short delay in post­ing until a staff mem­ber can mon­i­tor and approve pend­ing postings.

The CEE Depart­ment also uses other lists — “cee-jobs” where we post career job announce­ments and “cegrads”, an email list for our grad­u­ate stu­dents.  You can learn more (includ­ing how to sub­scribe or unsub­scribe) on the CEE Stu­dent Resources web­site.

I send out advis­ing notes and other impor­tant announce­ments to the CEE majors list, so please be (and stay) subscribed!

Transfer Credits

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A num­ber of trans­fer stu­dents are writ­ing to ask about reg­is­tra­tion prob­lems, miss­ing trans­fer courses, unsat­is­fied pre­req­ui­sites and such.  The pri­mary rea­son for all these prob­lems is pretty com­mon — the stu­dent has for­got­ten to sub­mit an *offi­cial* up-to-date tran­script to the UW Admis­sions Office after com­plet­ing their last quar­ter at the trans­fer insti­tu­tion.  There­fore the UW has trans­fer courses up to the time the stu­dent applied to the UW (typ­i­cally through autumn quar­ter), but course­work for the fol­low­ing quar­ters are miss­ing.  So if you haven’t sub­mit­ted your offi­cial, up-to-date tran­script to the UW, do so now!

If you have a choice of how the tran­script is sub­mit­ted to the UW (elec­tronic or paper for­mat), request elec­tronic trans­fer as the cred­its will post more promptly.  Paper tran­scripts will be eval­u­ated man­u­ally and may take up to a cou­ple of months to post on the UW sys­tem. Courses from Wash­ing­ton State com­mu­nity col­leges will trans­fer as listed on the UW Course Equiv­a­lency Guide. For infor­ma­tion on trans­fer courses from four-year or out-of-state insti­tu­tions, see the CEE web­site for trans­fer stu­dents. In the mean­time, if you have dif­fi­cul­ties reg­is­ter­ing for your CEE courses due to miss­ing pre­req­ui­sites courses, you can request add codes for CEE courses at www.tinyurl.com/ceeaddcodes.  The add code will help you to get registered.

 

 

 

Summer break!

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I will be out of the office August 3 (Fri) and from August 7–17 for a sum­mer break.  I’ll be back in the office on Mon­day, August 20.

For add codes to CEE courses, com­plete online form at www.tinyurl.com/ceeaddcodes. If you need an appoint­ment, you can self-schedule an appoint­ment with me at www.tinyurl.com/cee-appt-ugrad. (This tool works for Gmail and UW accounts; not Yahoo, Hot­mail, etc.)  I’ve added more appoint­ment times for later in August and September.

Enjoy the sum­mer and our pre­cious sunny days!

 

Mariko Navin

 

Need an appoint­ment? You can self-schedule an appoint­ment with me online at www.tinyurl.com/cee-appt-ugrad. (This tool works for Gmail and UW accounts, but does not work with Yahoo, Hot­mail, etc.)

For add codes to CEE courses, com­plete online form at www.tinyurl.com/ceeaddcodes.

 

New majors: try registering if you haven’t already

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New CEE majors, try reg­is­ter­ing for your classes! Even if the civil engi­neer­ing major sta­tus doesn’t show up on your MyUW yet, you may be able to reg­is­ter.  (I’ve been told from some stu­dents that their pre-major sta­tus still shows up on MyUW, but they have been able to reg­is­ter. That’s prob­a­bly because the sys­tem rec­og­nizes that the major sta­tus change is effec­tive for autumn quar­ter.)  I have sub­mit­ted the change of major request for all new majors with pre­req­ui­sites completed.

Trans­fer stu­dents new to the UW: Your reg­is­tra­tion date is cur­rently tied to your UW Advis­ing & Ori­en­ta­tion ses­sion, but I am in the process of hav­ing this moved up so you can reg­is­ter ear­lier.  Don’t worry, though.  Autumn quar­ter CEE courses are reserved for you.  If you are con­cerned, just sub­mit a request for add codes for the sec­tions you wish online at www.tinyurl.com/ceeaddcodes.

Con­di­tional admis­sion stu­dents will need add codes to reg­is­ter until your change of major is final.

Getting ready for autumn quarter registration…

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For those of you accept­ing the CEE offer of admis­sions, I am sub­mit­ting your Change of Major forms and you should soon have “CIV E” major sta­tus appear on your MyUW — and become ready to reg­is­ter.   I have also send out reg­is­tra­tion infor­ma­tion for those who have accepted our offer.