August 9, 2016
Career Fair 2016
The annual UW EE Career Fair is an excellent opportunity for companies and potential employers to connect with students about job and internship opportunities. Held in the fall, the UW EE Career Fair attracts hundreds of electrical engineering students. Career Fair 2015 featured 23 employers and was visited by 377 students. View photos photos from…
Alum Mike Lei Leads Smartwatch Revolution with Company Mobvoi
As Chief Technology Officer of Mobvoi, UW Electrical Engineering (EE) alumnus, Mike Lei, leads a company focused on intuitive design, infallible functionality and brilliant human-machine interaction. The startup, which is shaking up the tech community, has already received multi-million dollar investments from search giant, Google. Within ten minutes of opening their Kickstarter campaign for their…
August 8, 2016
Graduate Students Develop Revolutionary Process for Secure Body Password Transmission
Sending a password or secret code over airborne radio waves like WiFi or Bluetooth means anyone can eavesdrop, making those transmissions vulnerable to hackers who can attempt to break the encrypted code. Now, University of Washington electrical engineering Ph.D. students, Mehrdad Hessar and Vikram Iyer, have devised a way to send secure passwords through the…
July 26, 2016
WiSE Summer Bridge Students Develop Smart, Stable Walker
Through a collaboration with WiSE (Women in Science and Engineering), two pre-engineering students had the opportunity to develop the Wise Walker, a more stable option for walker users. April Opsvig and Zoe Nelson designed the device over a one-month internship, under the guidance of Research Associate Professor Linda Bushnell. PhD student (and TA on the…
July 15, 2016
Microsoft’s Prestigious Collaborator Award
Electrical engineering professors, Dr. Georg Seelig and Dr. Shwetak Patel, received the Microsoft Research’s 2016 Outstanding Collaborator Award. The award highlights and celebrates the amazing academics who have worked with the company on research initiatives. Since its founding in 1991, Microsoft Research (MSR) is dedicated to a model of open collaboration with academia. For Seelig…
Professors Hack Surgical Robot in Motherboard Special
It began as a surgical device for the military, one that could fit in an armored vehicle in the combat zone. However, the robot – named Raven II – became a strong platform for advancing the software, the control, and network security for medical robotics. Motherboard visited the BioRobotics Lab at the University of Washington, illustrating…
Students Develop a Piano-Playing Robotic Hand
As a part of their Spring 2016 capstone project, electrical engineering students, Yedi Luo, Qing Ran, Huy Nguyen, Yuhao Wang and Jiwei Wang, created a robotic hand that plays the piano through both autonomous and semi-autonomous modes. The modes are two-prong. The robotic hand can play autonomously by reading sheet music via Optical Character Recognition….
Professor Chizeck Weighs in on Police Robots on NPR Special
[July 11, 2016] This past week, the nation experienced deep tremors in the wake of police shootings. After white police officers killed Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, the continued dialogue of racial bias flooded onto the streets in the form protests and marches. On July 7, these protests turned deadly as a gunman killed five…
July 11, 2016
World Record in DNA Storage
Electrical Engineering Assistant Professor George Seelig, along with Luis Ceze, UW’s Torode Family Career Development Professor of computer science and engineering (CSE) and Karin Strauss, a researcher at Microsoft and affiliate professor for the CSE Department, reached a new milestone in the revolutionary process of DNA data storage. The team of researchers encoded and decoded…
July 7, 2016
Students Help Develop Device to Combat Malaria
Mayoore Jaiswal, a doctoral student in the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE), wants to build something that has a positive impact on someone’s life. She has utilized her electrical engineering expertise to help combat malaria, a disease that affects over 200 million people annually. “I wanted to work on a meaningful project,” Jaiswal said. “I…
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