The Trend in
ENGINEERING
Autumn 2019 Edition
Fueled by floods
UW researchers are racing to determine how hydropower demand will impact supplies of rice and fish along the Mekong River — and the communities who rely on them.
Meet Nancy Allbritton
The nationally recognized leader, educator and researcher joins us on Nov. 1 as the next dean of UW Engineering.
Atari Women
Human Centered Design & Engineering researchers unearth and celebrate the forgotten histories of women who helped shape the early days of Atari — and the computer gaming industry ever since.
An engineering STAR
Alumna Ewurama Karikari shares how the UW STARS program helped her transform her passions for math and robotics into a mechanical engineering mechatronics degree.
Have you heard?
UW researchers develop the first smartphone app that can identify ear infections in children.
SARP wins big
The Society for Advanced Rocket Propulsion — UW’s student rocketry club — clinched the top spot this summer at the 2019 Spaceport America Cup.
Great minds think alike
UW researchers have created a method for two people help a third person solve a task using only their thoughts.
Combatting misinformation
The new UW Center for an Informed Public will work to promote an informed society, resist strategic misinformation and strengthen democratic discourse.
Advancements in Alzheimer’s research
UW researchers show that a synthetic peptide can inhibit toxicity and aggregation of Alzheimer’s disease proteins.
