ECE Advising Blog


January 27, 2022

City Light Internships now open

Seattle City Light’s summer internships are open for applications through February 8th and have been posted to UW’s Handshake!  There are several opportunities of interest for Electrical Engineering students such as the Electrical Engineering Intern, Grid Modernization Intern, Power Analyst/Data Science Intern, and Management Systems Intern. See the full list of available internships here.


CoMotion: Fundamentals for Startups

Join us on Fridays: Fundamentals for FINTECH Startups: Customer-Centricity: The Cornerstone of Culture This Friday, January 28th 12 – 1 p.m. Location: Online only (access link to come after registration) In this talk, we will be joined by Matt Oppenheimer, Co-founder & CEO of Remitly, a leading digital financial services provider for immigrants and their families in over…


Undergraduate Research Opportunity in Signal Processing

Hello, My name is Felix Schwock and I am a Ph.D. student in the ECE department under the supervision of Prof. Les Atlas and Prof. Shima Abadi. I am currently recruiting 3-5 undergraduate students to team up with me for the IEEE Five-Minute Video Clip Contest for IEEE ICASSP 2022. The topic of the contest is “Graph…


January 26, 2022

Info Session: Finding Funding for Graduate School – 2/9, 1:00 p.m.

The Graduate Funding Information Service (GFIS) invites UW graduate students to an info session on how to find funding for graduate school Wednesday, February 9, 2022 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time Learn more about how you can fund your graduate education. Join us for an overview of funding types, search tools, and search strategies, via Zoom. Register…


Fundamentals for Startups: Failing into Entrepreneurship – 2/4, 12 p.m.

Friday, February 4th, 12 – 1 p.m. Location: Online only (access link to come after registration) Entrepreneurship is all about learning, which means it’s all about failing. Learning how to fail is a skill that can be practiced – it takes preparation before, during, and after the “failure.” Turning a “failure” into a “lesson” doesn’t…


Fundamentals for FINTECH Startups: Customer-Centricity, The Cornerstone of Culture – 1/28, 12 p.m.

Friday, January 28th,12 – 1 p.m. Location: Online only (access link to come after registration) In this talk, we will be joined by Matt Oppenheimer, Co-founder & CEO of Remitly, a leading digital financial services provider for immigrants and their families in over 135 countries around the world. Matt will share his experience of building a mission-driven…


OPEN GRADER POSITION: CESI 508 Accounting & Finance for Construction – apply by 1/28

The Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering is currently recruiting a grader working with Affiliate Assistant Professor Mo Malakoutian on CESI 508 this winter.  The grader for this course will perform the following job duties: Attend instructor/grader meetings Attend lectures as directed Grade homework assignments and/or exams Maintain grading and/or assignment completion records Manage and…


Opportunity for grad students to mentor undergraduate teams (there’s a stipend!)

Greetings from the Space Grant office!  We are running a NASA Artemis challenge, and we have an opportunity that may interest grad students in ECE (this is only open to U.S. citizens, because it’s NASA funding).  For the challenge, teams of undergraduates tackle the question of “how do we access a lava tube on the…


Ask Us Anything – Curated Q&A with Career Coaches – 3/10, 3:30 p.m.

Thursday / March 10, 2022 / 3:30pm – 4pm Ever had a student tell you something about the job search and think to yourself: “hmm, I’m not sure if that’s accurate”? Have you been giving the same piece of internship advice to students for years and wondered if it’s still as sound as it once…


How We Help Students Discover Their Purpose & Explore Careers – 1/26, 3:30 p.m.

Wednesday / January 26, 2022 / 3:30pm – 4pm Many students are unclear about their major, career, and life plans…which can be a scary place for them to be. They often don’t know what questions to ask; don’t want to “waste” time exploring; and don’t have the self-confidence, self-direction, or social capital to further define what…



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