July 6, 2017
Professor Bruce Darling receives COE Faculty Award in Teaching
UW electrical engineering (UW EE) professor Bruce Darling was awarded the College of Engineering Faculty Award in Teaching for his outstanding contributions to engineering education. The annual award recognizes a faculty member who fosters innovative and lasting contributions to engineering education and displays high-level commitment to students both in and outside of the classroom. Professor Darling has…
July 5, 2017
UW researchers develop world’s first battery-free phone
June 30, 2017
Graduate student Nick Bolten receives Husky Seed Fund
Ph.D. student Nick Bolten received the 2017 Husky Seed Fund for his project UW OpenSidewalks. The fund supports students’ innovative ideas that are inclusive, impactful, and inventive to the UW. Bolten’s project will gather rich data on paths throughout the UW’s Seattle campus to add to the open, mapping database OpenStreetMap. This will help fulfill the…
June 28, 2017
Battery-free cellphone research featured in Wired
June 27, 2017
Researchers deliver first targeted treatment for movement disorder
June 23, 2017
Partnership with CMMB launches new center on smart, connected communities
CMMB Vision (CMMB) has awarded the University of Washington Department of Electrical Engineering (UW EE) a $1.5 million gift to establish a new research center. The CMMB Vision-UW Center on Satellite Multimedia and Connected Vehicles will focus on the development of the next generation of smart cars and ubiquitous connectivity. “We picked a vehicle, because it…
Graduate student Katherine Pratt featured at Smithsonian’s Future Con
Smithsonian’s Future Con was born out of a partnership with Awesome Con, Washington DC’s version of the popular, multi-genre entertainment convention Comic Con. What Future Con achieves is a balance between science and sci-fi, integrating the two to investigate what is possible in science, technology, engineering and space exploration. The convention brings together some of the brightest…
June 22, 2017
EcoCar receives first place for NSF Innovation Award
At the national competition, the UW EcoCar team took first place in the innovation topic paper and presentation for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovation Award. Students on the first-place team include UW electrical engineering (UW EE) students James Goin, Joanna Mazer, Denis Jivaikin, Ting-Yu (Jacky) Wang, Thaniel Schrimshire and Brandon Noyes and Paul G. Allen School of computer…
June 20, 2017
Professor Hajishirzi awarded Bloomberg grant for data science
June 19, 2017
Two Alums celebrated at COE’s 2017 Diamond Awards
Cherng Jia “CJ” Hwang (Ph.D. ’66) Diamond Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence In the basement of the old University of Washington Electrical Engineering (UW EE) building, Cherng Jia “CJ” Hwang was first introduced to semiconductor lasers. Here he worked with UW EE Professor Lynn Watt as a research assistant. These early days in the lab would…
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