November 6, 2018

2018 Lytle Lecture featuring Claire Tomlin

Claire Tomlin, the Charles A. Desoer Chair in the College of Engineering, professor in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California Berkeley, spoke last night (Nov. 5) at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering’s 11th annual Lytle Lecture. Tomlin works in the area of control theory and hybrid systems, with applications to air…


October 29, 2018

We are hiring multiple full-time, tenure-track positions

The Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Washington, Seattle Invites applications for multiple full-time tenure-track positions with a nine-month service period annually, from exceptional candidates with strong record of collaboration and creativity. Hiring will be made primarily at the Tenure-Track Assistant and Associate Professor levels with an anticipated start date…


October 24, 2018

Remembering Professor Mohamed El-Sharkawi

The Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering sadly announces the recent passing of beloved emeritus professor Mohamed El-Sharkawi. El-Sharkawi was a Fellow of IEEE, a professor of Electrical Engineering, an associate chair and a professor in the Clean Energy Institute. His research focused on electric and renewable energy, electric safety, electric drives, power electronics, intelligent…


October 15, 2018

Long-range backscatter earns ACM IMWUT Distinguished Paper Award

By Kristin Osborne Researchers in the University of Washington Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and the Allen School were recognized this week with the IMWUT Vol 1. Distinguished Paper Award for their 2017 paper, “LoRa Backscatter: Enabling the Vision of Ubiquitous Connectivity.” The award, which was announced during the Ubicomp 2018 conference in Singapore,…


October 12, 2018

ECE graduate student wins awards for research

Niveditha Kalavakonda is a hard-working, innovative graduate student and the past month is evidence of this. The Electrical & Computer Engineering Ph.D. student won first place in the Grace Hopper Celebration in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Student Research Competition two weeks ago and two first place awards in the overall graduate category at…


Researchers develop 3-D printed objects that can track and store how they are used

By Sarah McQuate Cheap and easily customizable, 3-D printed devices are perfect for assistive technology, like prosthetics or “smart” pill bottles that can help patients remember to take their daily medications. But these plastic parts don’t have electronics, which means they can’t monitor how patients are using them. Now engineers at the University of Washington…


October 3, 2018

ECE community grieves loss of friend, faculty and alum, John Ehrenberg

The Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering sadly announces the recent passing of a friend, faculty and alum John Ehrenberg on Sept. 27. Ehrenberg passed away in his home at the age of 74. As a graduate student, a research professor and then an affiliate faculty member in the Department, he spent 45 years at…


September 19, 2018

ECE welcomes 2018 faculty members

Tenure Track Faculty   Brian Johnson Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2013 M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2009  B.S. Physics, Texas State University, 2008 Brian Johnson will join the Electrical Engineering department in the spring as an assistant professor. For the past five years, he…


September 14, 2018

Electrical Engineering celebrates new name: Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

UW Electrical Engineering has changed its name to the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) to expand student opportunities and better reflect current teaching, research and service. By Chelsea Yates The department’s new name — which went into effect on September 16, 2018 — has been widely endorsed by university and college leadership, faculty, students, staff,…


August 1, 2018

Nanofabrication Intensive Short Course



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