July 7, 2016
$1m for Rehabilitative Wireless Devices
A group of international researchers with the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE), including Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering Joshua Smith, developed an implantable device that can aid those suffering from spinal cord injuries and incontinence. The researchers advanced to be one of three finalists, receiving $1 million through the…
UW EE Students Design Underwater Mapping Device
In collaboration with Booz Allen Hamilton, students with the Department of Electrical Engineering design and implement the hardware for an underwater mapping device. The product was developed as a part of the students’ Entrepreneurial Design Capstone project. The students – Philip David, Kevin Fukuhara, Kyle Lashbrook, Shruti Misra, and William Thing – sought to design…
UW EE Students’ Research Presented in The Economist
UW EE doctoral students, Po-shen Lee and Sean Yan, had their work highlighted in a June 18 edition of The Economist. The research elucidated a concept that has been presumed, but not fully tested – illustrations in academic papers affect the papers’ widespread impact. The research – termed Viziometrics – was conducted through a defined…
Radha Poovendran Receives Distinguished Alumni Award
University of Washington Electrical Engineering Chair Radha Poovendran was honored with a 2016 ECE Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Maryland (UMD). Professor Poovendran was one of three recipients awarded with the honor. The award was presented to him by his PhD advisor, Professor John Baras, at the UMD award ceremony on May 20….
July 5, 2016
Professor Shlizerman Receives Teaching Award
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Eli Shizerman, who received the 2016 Applied Math Teaching Award for outstanding teaching by a member of the faculty. Shlizerman specialized in teaching courses in the field of Scientific Computing for both undergraduate and graduate students in the Colleges of Engineering and Arts and Sciences. In April, Shlizerman published research that…
Scientific American Highlights Professor George Seelig’s Research in DNA Storage
Electrical Engineering Associate Professor Georg Seelig, along with Computer Science and Engineering Professor Luis Ceze and Microsoft’s Karin Strauss, developed an original encoding system that can be copied onto DNA. The sequence was presented at the Association for Computing Machinery Conference and was recently mentioned in a May 31 Scientific American article. Within the last decade,…
June 1, 2016
UW EE Students Make Sweet 16 Round at UWBPC
Written by Tommy Merth and Carley Rich, UW EE Undergraduate Student Employees, Public Relations team Congratulations to Di Sun and Shane Colburn and their teams for making the Sweet 16 round at the UW Business Plan Competition (UWBPC). While the UWBPC is geared toward entrepreneur majors, students from the Electrical Engineering department have always played…
UW EE Co-Authored Research Discovers Nature’s Most Efficient Proton Conductor
Sharks and rays have long been known for their ability to sense the very weak electric fields produced by their prey and other animals in the ocean. A new study published May 13 in Science Advances offers a leap forward in understanding how sharks and their kin do this — and also reveals the discovery…
May 16, 2016
Measuring Lung Function Over the Phone with SpiroCall
For individuals who manage chronic lung disease, it’s vitally important to be able to easily obtain accurate data to measure their lung function. Now, patients can do just that by simply picking up any phone anywhere in the world — thanks to a tool called SpiroCall. Developed by a team of researchers lead by Shwetak Patel,…
April 27, 2016
UW EE Hosts Alumni Breakfast for UW Discovery Days
The UW EE Community celebrated our alums this weekend at Discovery Days on Saturday, April 23, 2016. Engineering Discovery Days is a two-day event sponsored by the College of Engineering allowing students and faculty from all UW Engineering departments to share their work with students and teachers from area schools, families and the community. We…
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