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April 4 | Foster School of Business
ChemE Seniors win the 2013 UW Environmental Innovation Challenge!
Assistant professor Danilo Pozzo's senior design team "Polydrop," were the first prize winners at the 2013 UW Environmental Innovation Challenge. Their prize-winning prototype is an additive that transforms regular coatings into conductive coatings to enable the use of carbon fiber composites in the transportation industry. Their solution prevents the accumulation of static charges that can interfere with a vehicle's sensitive electronics.
In addition to the grand prize winners, engineering students presented and demonstrated their cleantech prototypes on these teams:
Pure Blue Technologies: Water disinfection and desalination technology. From EE: Michael Lee and Sep Makhous (2nd place).
EcoMembrane: Prevention of scaling/fouling of desalination and wastewater treatment membranes using ultrasound. From CEE: Jaffer Alali (honorable mention).
Upcycle: Bio-briquette maker that transforms bio-waste into fuel for cook stoves. From ME: Eri Amasawa, Nishita Anand, Bryan Ferguson (honorable mention).
See also: King5 Evening Magazine video |
Seattle PI article |
Xconomy article
April 3, 2013
A whopping 24 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships!
Twenty-four of our engineering students have been awarded the very prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. Fellows are anticipated to become knowledge experts who can contribute significantly to research, teaching, and innovations in science and engineering. Last year, 15 UW engineering students were awarded the fellowships.
March 27 | NPR
UW Computer science student featured in "humanitarian hackathon"
As a participant in the 2013 International Women's Hackathon, CSE sophomore Laura McFarlane worked on an app to combat human trafficking. McFarlane's team built their smartphone app with a way for users to connect with help but looks like it's just about fun for teens. "This ... helped me see it from the perspective of the girls who are getting trafficked. It put a face to the numbers," said McFarlane.
December, 2012 | UW Electrical Engineering
Seven UWEE Undergrads Receive IEEE Power & Energy Society Scholarships
Seven UW EE undergraduates have been awarded scholarships in the amount of $2,000 from the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES). These scholarships recognize undergraduate students who have declared a major in electrical engineering, are high achievers with strong GPAs and distinctive extracurricular commitments, and are committed to exploring the power and energy field.
December 2, 2012 | The Seattle Times
Engineering students turning 2013 Malibu into fuel-saving dual-motor hybrid
Several dozen UW engineering students will have helped transform a Chevy Malibu into an electric-biodiesel hybrid that will run on two motors — one for the front wheels, one for the back. The car will use battery power for the first 45 miles, then switch to a biodiesel engine. ME student Brendan Boyer says the real-world aspect of the project is especially interesting: "I'm actually modeling a real part that has to survive a crash, that has to meet federal safety standards," he said.
November 28, 2012 | Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity
BioE PhD student and mentor awarded NIH fellowship for research in infectious disease and cancer
Fourth-year Bioengineering PhD student Nuvala Fomban's research looks at how nanotechnology and the molecules he has developed can improve the way infectious diseases and cancer are diagnosed and monitored. For his efforts, he has received a pre-doctoral fellowship to train with the Nanotechnology and Physical Sciences Training Program in Cancer Research. Fomban is also a UW LSAMP graduate mentor and UW PEERs leader.
November 20, 2012 | UW Daily
Design-Build-Launch team prepares for takeoff
A team of students is building a rocket to launch 10,000 feet into the earth's atmosphere and measure CO2 levels and the quantity of random particles in the atmosphere. At 10,000 feet the rocket, equipped with a camera, will split in half and eject a variety of instruments along with a small parachute. The team will then recover the rocket and study the data gathered by the instruments. The summer competition is part of the nationwide Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC).
October 28, 2012 | UW Chemical Engineering
ChemE Students Win at ChemE Car Global Finals
The undergraduate ChemE Car team won two awards at the AIChE ChemE Car Global Finals in Pittsburgh. The team took home the "Most Creative Drive System Award," and "Golden Tire Award," both awards in the quality and creativity in the technical work category. See also: About the car and team
October 25, 2012 | UW Today
A UW team this week claimed top prize in the first 3D4D Challenge, an international contest to use 3-D printing for social benefit in the developing world. The three undergraduates won $100,000 to form a company that will work with partners in Oaxaca, Mexico to build machines that can transform waste plastic into composting toilets and pieces for rainwater harvesting systems. See also: Daily
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