July 8, 2015
UW Nanofabrication Facility Receives $37 Million to Expand
The UW Washington Nanofabrication Facility (WNF), directed by EE Professor Karl Bohringer, has received up to $37 million in funding from the UW Board of Regents for an extensive expansion project. “The building infrastructure is from the 80s and desperately needs updating,” Bohringer said. “Lab activities have about tripled in the past four years since we…
July 7, 2015
Matt Reynolds and Shwetak Patel’s SideSwipe is the Future of Smartphones
Developed in the labs of UW EE Professors Matt Reynolds andShwetak Patel, SideSwipe technology was featured in the July issue of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. SideSwipe enables the entire space around a smartphone to become interactive using gesture control. The phone’s own wireless transmissions are used to sense and respond to specific hand gestures. This…
July 6, 2015
EE Graduate Student Ethan Keeler Wins Best Scientific Poster Award
UW EE graduate student Ethan Keeler received the Best Scientific Poster Award at the 9th annual Nano and Micro Systems (NAMIS) International Summer School in Montreal, Canada, held June 29-July 3, 2015. Keeler competed against 40 other students and researchers. A second year graduate student, Keeler’s poster was titled “MEMS Resonator and Photonic Crystal Integration for…
July 5, 2015
UW EE Alum Henry Louie Receives Fulbright Award
UW EE Alum Henry Louie (Ph.D. 2008) is the recipient of a Fulbright Award, allowing him to spend a year at Copperbelt University in Kitwe, Zambia, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in power engineering and conducting research on energy poverty. “Receiving a Fulbright Award is a prestigious honor, and one that I am very proud…
July 4, 2015
UW EE’s Daniel Kirschen Teams up with BPA to Improve Wind Energy Usage
EE Professor Daniel Kirschen has received funding to work toward improving the electric grid, particularly as it pertains to storing and using excess wind energy. With an outdated electric grid, and an increase in renewable energy usage, ensuring that energy is being optimally used is a current challenge in the field. Sponsored by the Bonneville…
July 3, 2015
Now Available: Spring/Summer 2015 Issue of The Integrator
July 2, 2015
New UW EE Innovation Award Honors Hook Founder
For graduate student Rahil Jain, the idea for his company, Hook, came about from trying to save a few dollars when converting his existing home devices to smart gadgets. “I like tech and I am a cheapskate!” Jain said. “I wanted to automate my apartment without spending hundreds of dollars.” Jain’s idea and entrepreneurial spirit…
July 1, 2015
Two EE Faculty Receive CoMotion Innovation Fund Awards
Of 11 CoMotion Innovation Fund Awards granted to cutting-edge projects with promising impact, two awards fund EE Faculty member projects. Congratulations to EE Faculty members Karl Böhringer and Eric Klavins! As part of the annual awards, teams must compete for funding by pitching their project idea to a panel comprised of venture capitalists, senior executives,…
June 13, 2015
UW EE Alum Tom Doyle Establishes Endowed Scholarship
EE Alum Tom Doyle (BSEE ’64) knows what it feels like to receive scholarships. And now, he also knows what it feels like to financially support students. In late June, Doyle established an endowed scholarship for electrical engineering students. “I’ve established the endowment in gratitude for scholarship assistance I received while pursuing a bachelor’s degree…
June 12, 2015
UW EE Researchers Engineer Yeast to Communicate
Yeast has been around for thousands of years, but they are just now saying their first words, thanks to a team of UW researchers who have engineered yeast cells to communicate. This important step may lead to the future building of multicellular organisms. Led by EE faculty member Eric Klavins, the team’s research was published…
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