April 20, 2020
Tunoptix, startup led by two ECE faculty, wins federal grant to develop metalenses for imaging satellites
Story by Renske Dyedov | Institute for Nano-Engineered Systems Tunoptix, an optics startup co-founded by University of Washington (UW) Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) professors Karl Böhringer and Arka Majumdar, was awarded $223,000 in Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop metasurface lenses (or metalenses) for…
April 16, 2020
Wearable solar power could contribute to a brighter future
Story by Wayne Gillam | UW ECE News How do you feel when your cell phone battery dies, and there’s no wall outlet nearby or other convenient way to recharge? Irritated? Maybe even a bit panicked? Well, stay calm and carry on. A new book recently published by Denise Wilson, a professor in the University…
April 14, 2020
Two UW ECE faculty members receive highly regarded ONR YIP award
Story by Wayne Gillam | UW ECE News University of Washington Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (UW ECE) faculty members Arka Majumdar and Lillian Ratliff each recently received a prestigious award that will help further their research. Majumdar and Ratliff are two of only twenty-six award recipients nationwide to receive the 2020 Office of…
April 7, 2020
Encouraging equity and inclusion through interactive theater
Adapted from a story by Wayne Gillam, Center for Neurotechnology How can people address racism, sexism, xenophobia and other forms of oppression if they can’t identify when it happens? These and other forms of discrimination can be nuanced and aren’t always obvious to everyone. Sometimes, instances of oppression commonly experienced by underrepresented students can be…
April 3, 2020
UW ECE thanks Professor Bruce Darling for serving as Interim Chair
The University of Washington (UW) Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) would like to thank Professor Bruce Darling for serving as Interim Department Chair during Winter Quarter 2020. Darling was preceded by outgoing Chair Radha Poovendran at the end of 2019, and succeeded by incoming Chair Eric Klavins, who began his tenure April 1,…
March 25, 2020
Eric Klavins appointed as new UW ECE Department Chair
We are pleased to announce that Professor Eric Klavins has accepted the position of Department Chair of the University of Washington (UW) Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE), effective April 1, 2020 subject to approval of the Provost. Klavins has been with UW ECE since 2003 and holds adjunct appointments in the Paul G….
UW ECE faculty and alumni receive NSF CAREER awards
University of Washington (UW) Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) alumni Andrew Clark and Subhanshu Gupta, and UW ECE professor Baosen Zhang have each been honored with a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, one of the nation’s most coveted honors for early-career faculty. The…
March 20, 2020
Dr. Dakotah Lane, UW ECE alum turned medical professional, is leading his tribe’s battle against the coronavirus
The Lummi Nation doctor is currently under self-quarantine, but the tribe has been proactively preparing for a coronavirus outbreak for weeks. Adapted from a story by Lynda Mapes, The Seattle Times When Dakotah Lane decided to change careers and become a doctor, to come home and serve his people, he never thought he’d be in…
March 18, 2020
Awards support development of therapeutic neural interfaces
It’s said that there’s often more than one way to solve a problem, and Amy Orsborn, an assistant professor in the University of Washington (UW) Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE), likely knows this better than most. Orsborn’s ECE research focuses on building knowledge needed to engineer devices that can collaborate with dynamic, ever-changing…
March 11, 2020
ECE alum Junyi Zhu integrates electronics onto physical prototypes at MIT with “CurveBoards”
MIT researchers led by University of Washington (UW) Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) alum Junyi Zhu have invented a way to integrate “breadboards” — flat platforms widely used for electronics prototyping — directly onto physical products. The aim is to provide a faster, easier way to test circuit functions and user interactions with products such…
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