January 30, 2019
Professor Denise Wilson speaks to Nature on the gender pay gap
ECE professor Denise Wilson has been working and studying in the engineering field for 30 year. As a professor in sensors and photovoltaics and engineering education, she shared her thoughts on the gender pay gap with Nature. “A lot of women who go into software and app development are doing well,” she was quoted as…
January 22, 2019
Chet Moritz appointed as Hwang Professor
Chet Moritz, professor of electrical & computer engineering, rehabilitation medicine and physiology & biophysics, has been named the Cherng Jia and Elizabeth Yun Hwang Endowed Professor in the University of Washington’s (UW’s) Department of Electrical Engineering. He is the second recipient of this award, Rajesh Rao, director of the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) and…
ECE student named 2018-19 PES scholarship recipient
Ishaan Bhimani, a second year student in ECE, was awarded 2018-19 IEEE Power & Energy Society scholarship. Selected students for this honor are high achievers with strong GPAs with distinctive extracurricular commitments who are committed to exploring the power and energy field. According to IEEE PES, “power and energy engineers work with some of today’s…
January 11, 2019
Professor Majumdar appointed WRF Distinguished Investigator
Electrical and Computer Engineering professor Arka Majumdar was appointed as a Distinguished Investigator by the Washington Research Foundation (WRF). The appointment is a 5-year Professorship with WRF. “This is a wonderful recognition of what Arka has been doing at the UW, said ECE professor and chair Radha Poovendran. “We are deeply grateful to WRF for…
December 13, 2018
At the UW, our sci-fi future has arrived
By Hannelore Sudermann From Columns Late this summer a group of astronomers from around the country, including assistant professor Rory Barnes, discovered what could be Vulcan, Mr. Spock’s home planet. It is right where “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry said it could be—in a solar system surrounding 40 Eridani A, a star 16 light years…
November 28, 2018
UW-led philosophy team receives $1.5M grant to study the ethics of neurotechnology research
By Sarah McQuate UW News Brain-computer interfaces have the potential to give patients better and more natural control over their prosthetic devices. Through this method, a chip in a patient’s brain picks up a thought — neural activity triggered by focusing on specific visual imagery — to move a joint and then transmits that signal…
November 26, 2018
Maryam Fazel to lead NSF TRIPODS+X in data science
The National Science Foundation announced that it is awarding grants totaling $8.5 million to 19 collaborative projects at 23 universities for the study of complex and entrenched problems in data science. Three of these projects will be based at the University of Washington. The grants build on a 2017 award in the Transdisciplinary Research in…
November 16, 2018
Scientists engineer a functional optical lens out of 2D materials
In optics, the era of glass lenses may be waning. In recent years, physicists and engineers have been designing, constructing and testing different types of ultrathin materials that could replace the thick glass lenses used today in cameras and imaging systems. Critically, these engineered lenses — known as metalenses — are not made of glass….
November 15, 2018
Repairing damaged nerves
ECE professor Chet Moritz, whose research is in the Restorative Technology Laboratory, is improving brain and spinal cord injuries. Currently, his research, funded by the National Science Foundation has had several breakthroughs using electrical stimulation to damaged nerves. Learn more here.
November 14, 2018
ECE Professor Brian Johnson leads Department of Energy-funded research
UW researchers partner with University of Colorado Boulder, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and semiconductor manufacturer Wolfspeed to develop low-cost, high-efficiency inverters for solar photovoltaic power plants The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has pledged $2.84M to a research team led by University of Washington (UW) electrical & computer engineering (ECE) professor Brian B. Johnson to lower the cost of…
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