Thu, 04/26/2018 | UW College of Engineering

Dean Michael Bragg has announced the recipients of the 2018 Dean's Medal for Academic Excellence: Trevor Hedges (Aeronautics & Astronautics) and Kaitlyn Zhou (Human Centered Design & Engineering and Computer Science). Selection criteria include grades, rigor and distribution of courses, research experience, extracurricular activities, and leadership. Medals will be presented at the College of Engineering Awards Ceremony and reception on Thursday, May 24. Read more about the honorees on the Dean's Medal page.

Wed, 04/25/2018 | UW Faculty & Staff Insider and UW Engineering

UW's Awards of Excellence recipients are honored for achievements in teaching, mentoring, public service and staff support. This year's honorees include three from UW Engineering: BioE professor Suzie Hwang Pun (Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award); Sonya G. Cunningham, director of the STARS Program (David B. Thorud Leadership Award); and EE Ph.D. student Eldridge Alcantara (Excellence in Teaching Award). The winners will be honored at 3:30 p.m. on June 7 at a ceremony in Meany Hall for the UW community and general public. See the complete list of honorees.

Thu, 04/19/2018 | UW News

Wearable cameras such as Snap Spectacles promise to share videos of live concerts or surgeries instantaneously, but their small batteries are not suited to high-definition video streaming. Now, UW engineers have developed a new HD video streaming method that skips the power-hungry parts and has something else, like a smartphone, process the video instead. The team includes faculty members Shyam Gollakota (CSE) and Joshua Smith (CSE, EE).

Wed, 04/18/2018 | UW News

A new approach for blind an low-vision users browsing web pages uses the keyboard as a two-dimensional way to access tables, maps and nested lists. Results find this tool lets blind and low-vision users navigate these kinds of sites much more successfully than traditional screen readers.

Thu, 04/12/2018 | UW News

Researchers at the University of Washington have designed a convenient and natural product that uses proteins to rebuild tooth enamel and treat dental cavities. The method takes inspiration from the body’s own natural tooth-forming proteins and is detailed in a new paper by lead author Mehmet Sarikaya (MSE, ChemE) and colleagues.

Tue, 04/03/2018 | UW Information Technology

Researchers use cloud computing to understand how to turn Lake Washington microbes into allies for a cleaner world.

Thu, 03/15/2018 | UW News

Researchers at the University of Washington and the Allen Institute for Brain Science have developed a new method to classify and track the multitude of cells in a tissue sample. In a paper published March 15 in the journal Science, the team reports that this new approach — known as SPLiT-seq — reliably tracks gene activity in a tissue down to the level of single cells. Senior author is Georg Seelig, a UW associate professor in EE and CSE. The article includes a video illustration of the concept using ping-pong balls.

Thu, 03/01/2018 | UW Foster School of Business

Student entrepreneurs dazzled at the 2018 Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge, hosted by the UW Foster School’s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship. Teams of UW Engineering students won top honors.

• A team of BioE Ph.D. students and recent graduates won first place ($15,000) for A-Alpha Bio, a technology that helps fully characterize drug candidates in the pre-clinical stage.
• Second place ($10,000) was awarded for OLA Simple, a point-of-care technology platform for genetic disorders and conditions developed by a team of BioE and EE graduate students.
• A team of ME and EE graduate students won third place ($5,000) for ACBI, technology that makes continuous bladder irrigation treatment faster, less expensive, and safer.

Fri, 02/23/2018

The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) and the University of Washington’s Urban Freight Lab at the Supply Chain Transportation and Logistics Center (SCTL) have analyzed solutions for alleviating urban congestion by making truck parking spaces more productive and reducing the growth of truck traffic.

Tue, 02/20/2018 | UW News

Although mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones let us communicate, work and access information wirelessly, their batteries must still be charged by plugging them in to an outlet. But engineers at the University of Washington have for the first time developed a method to safely charge a smartphone wirelessly using a laser. Co-authors of a new paper are Shyam Gollakota (CSE) and Arka Majumdar (EE and physics).

Tue, 02/20/2018

Nearing completion of a dual Ph.D. in aerospace engineering and astrobiology, Osazonamen Igbinosun reflects on her journey from U.S. Navy pilot to UW engineer, scientist and mentor.

Thu, 02/15/2018 | UW News

Five faculty members at the University of Washington have been awarded early-career fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Among the new Sloan Fellows, announced Feb. 15, are Maya Cakmak, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, and Arka Majumdar, assistant professor of electrical engineering and physics. The fellowships honor early-career researchers whose achievements mark them as the next generation of scientific leaders.

Mon, 02/12/2018 | UW News

For photographers and scientists, lenses are lifesavers. They reflect and refract light, making possible the imaging systems that drive discovery through the microscope and preserve history through cameras. But today’s glass-based lenses are bulky and resist miniaturization. Engineers at the University of Washington have successfully combined two different imaging methods — an ultrathin lens along with robust computational processing — to create full-color images.

Mon, 02/12/2018 | UW News

University of Washington engineers have turned tissue paper – similar to toilet tissue – into a new kind of wearable sensor that can detect a pulse, a blink of an eye and other human movement. The sensor is light, flexible and inexpensive, with potential applications in health care, entertainment and robotics.

Tue, 02/06/2018

Airplanes? Fossils? Health care? Accessibility? Whatever you’re into, the WOOF 3D Print Club wants to show you how it can benefit from 3D printing

Fri, 02/02/2018 | GeekWire

Materials Science & Engineering graduate student Robert Masse is passionate about renewable energy technology and its potential contribution to addressing climate change. His business, Astrolabe Analytics (formerly Cloud Instruments), focuses on improving battery analytics to assist in the quest for better batteries. Masse recently won the Global Student Entrepreneur Award and is featured in GeekWire as a "Geek of the Week."

Wed, 01/31/2018 | UW News

The outsized impact of materials science on today’s world has prompted UW and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to create the Northwest Institute for Materials Physics, Chemistry and Technology — or NW IMPACT. The new joint research endeavor will power discoveries and advancements in materials that transform energy, telecommunications, medicine, information technology and other fields.

Wed, 01/24/2018 | UW News

Researchers from the Molecular Information Systems Lab at the University of Washington and Microsoft are looking to collect 10,000 original images from around the world to preserve them indefinitely in synthetic DNA manufactured by Twist Bioscience. DNA holds promise as a revolutionary storage medium that lasts much longer and is many orders of magnitude denser than current technologies.

Tue, 01/16/2018 | UW News

UW scientists have built a biomaterial-based delivery system that uses mathematical logic to target therapeutics with a high degree of precision. When specific physiological conditions are met, the casing dissolves and releases its therapeutic freight.

Tue, 01/09/2018

As a Clean Energy Institute outreach ambassador, ChemE graduate student Gabriella Tosado is encouraging K-12 students statewide to pursue engineering and science.

Mon, 01/08/2018 | UW News

The UW Reality Lab will focus on developing next-generation virtual and augmented reality technologies and educating an industry workforce.

Fri, 12/29/2017

STARS is part of the effort to grow the pipeline of Washington students who will graduate and enter high-demand STEM and health care fields, a public-private partnership was initiated in 2011 to support low- and middle-income students as they earn their bachelor’s degrees and enter the workforce.

Tue, 12/19/2017 | Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering

ISE Professor Christina Mastrangelo will lead the new UW site for the Center for Health Organization Transformation, a National Science Foundation funded Industry-University Cooperative Research Center focused on providing innovative, evidence-based transformational strategies in healthcare.

Wed, 12/13/2017 | UW News

UW Engineering celebrated two major fundraising and construction milestones on Wednesday for the Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering, which will allow the UW to double its annual computer science and engineering degree production, offer an unparalleled education to more of Washington’s students and grow its high impact research programs.

Tue, 12/05/2017 | UW News

The University of Washington has launched a new institute aimed at accelerating research at the nanoscale: the Institute for Nano-Engineered Systems, or NanoES. Housed in a new, multimillion-dollar facility on the UW’s Seattle campus, the institute will pursue impactful advancements in a variety of disciplines — including energy, materials science, computation and medicine.