March 24, 2016

EE Students Participate in First Annual Health Innovation Challenge

At the first annual Health Innovation Challenge held on March 3, three of 18 participating interdisciplinary teams contained electrical engineering students. Congratulations to teams Walk n’ Roll, OstomyTech and Appropriate Solutions for being selected to participate in the selective tradeshow-style competition, where students pitched their innovative projects. Hosted by the Foster School’s Buerk Center for…


March 23, 2016

Entrepreneurial Students Present Project at Booz Allen Hamilton Idea Fest

As part of UW EE’s new Entrepreneurial Engineering Capstone Course, which kicked-off winter quarter 2016, students collaborating with Booz Allen Hamilton presented their project at the annual Booz Allen Hamilton Idea Fest, at the Columbia Tower, on Saturday, March 5. The student team is comprised of UW EE seniors Philip David, Kevin Fukuhara, Kyle Lashbrook,…


March 22, 2016

Four Faculty Receive Google Research Awards

Chris Rudell Joshua Smith Hannaneh Hajishirzi Shyam Gollakota Congratulations to faculty members Chris Rudell, Joshua Smith, Hannaneh Hajishirzi and Shyam Gollakota who received Google Research Awards. The funding covers tuition for one graduate student and allows faculty and students to work with Google engineers and researchers. A total of 151 projects were funded from 950…


March 17, 2016

With NSF Grant, Sumit Roy Investigates Wireless Broadband Access for Underserved Areas

Thanks to a new NSF Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI) grant, EE Professor Sumit Roy will work with researchers from the United States and South Africa with the goal of bringing reliable, low-cost wireless broadband access to traditionally underserved areas. This is a pressing topic of importance for both countries. As part of the NSF…


March 15, 2016

Passive Wi-Fi Named Breakthrough Technology of 2016

A new Passive Wi-Fi system developed by a team of UW researchers has been named one of the top 10 breakthrough technologies of 2016 by MIT Technology Review. The Passive Wi-Fi system, which uses 10,000 times less power than conventional methods, not only saves the battery life of devices such as smartphones and computers, but…


March 10, 2016

EE Professor Shares Experiences with STARS Students

Professor Linda Bushnell was the stars of the show at a recent information session for students in January 2016. The information session was specifically for students enrolled in the Washington STate Academic RedShirt (STARS) in Engineering Program, which supports incoming freshmen who are interested in pursuing an engineering degree and who are from economically and educationally…


March 5, 2016

Professor Howard Chizeck Interviewed by Popular Mechanics


February 28, 2016

Shwetak Patel Featured in New Big Data Documentary

A new documentary titled “The Human Face of Big Data” highlights research being conducted in the UbiComp Lab, directed by Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering Professor Shwetak Patel. The documentary specifically features two UbiComp Lab projects, HydroSenseand ElectriSense, which collect data to monitor water consumption and appliance usage. The film, which won a “Best…


February 25, 2016

Professor Shwetak Patel and Department Collaborators Honored with PECASE Awards

Associate Professor Shwetak Patel is one of three from UW to be honored with a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The other two recipients are department collaborators David Masiello, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, and Luke Zettlemoyer, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering. The award, given to 150…


February 20, 2016

Eve Riskin Studies New Way to Recruit Women Faculty

In a new study, women scientists and engineers who successfully transitioned from industry careers to university faculty were interviewed to learn more about their experience with a new approach to recruiting women in academia, called “on-ramping.” Rather than the current practice of recruiting women from other universities, “on-ramping” strategies may increase the entire pool of…



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