The Post-Disaster Rapid Response Research Facility builds on Joe Wartman’s post-disaster data collection expertise, including leading data collection following the 2014 Oso landslide, the deadliest in U.S. history.

An alumnus who aligned his passions for diving and oceanography with mechanical engineering, Glenn Piper, '80, spoke with ME about the value of hands-on learning.

From the Ability & Innovation Lab to the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, the College of Engineering is innovating novel devices to help people of all abilities live out their dreams.

In low-resource settings, lack of access to anesthesia can prevent life-saving surgery. Engineering students are working to create an affordable, portable anesthesia delivery device that could make surgeries possible and reduce unnecessary deaths.

Two electrical engineering Ph.D. students are applying computer vision and machine learning to the fight against malaria, one of the most severe public health problems globally.

For researchers in the UW’s UbiComp Lab, a smartphone offers much more than access to email, Facebook and Pokémon Go: It has the power to detect disease and, ultimately, save lives.