Academic Departments
The College of Engineering consists of ten academic departments, spanning a wide range of disciplines. To learn more about an individual department, click on its name to go to the department home page. To see the location of a department's primary office on campus, click on its address.
- Aeronautics & Astronautics
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Department Chair: Adam P. Bruckner
Main Office: 211E Guggenheim Hall
Phone: (206) 543-1950- Designs, develops, tests, and produces aircraft, missiles,
spacecraft and satellites
- Aerodynamics
- Aircraft and spacecraft design
- Flight dynamics and control
- Structural analysis and design
- Aircraft and spacecraft propulsion
- Designs, develops, tests, and produces aircraft, missiles,
spacecraft and satellites
- Bioengineering
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Acting Department Chair: Paul Yager
Main Office: BIO E 107
Phone: (206) 685-2000- Invents the future of healthcare
- Distributed diagnosis and home healthcare (D2H2)
- Engineered biomaterials and tissue engineering
- Molecular bioengineering and nanotechnology
- Medical imaging and image-guided therapy
- Computational and integrative bioengineering
- Invents the future of healthcare
- Chemical Engineering
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Department Chair: Eric Stuve
Main Office: 105 Benson Hall
Phone: (206) 543-2250- Transforms raw materials into useful products
- Petroleum
- Pulp and paper
- Pharmaceuticals
- Environmental engineering
- Consumer products - food, lipstick, detergent, nitrogen
- Biotechnology
- Electronic materials
- Nuclear chemical engineering
- Polymers, composites, colloids, interfaces
- Transforms raw materials into useful products
- Civil & Environmental Engineering
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Acting Department Chair: Timothy V. Larson
Main Office: 201 More Hall
Phone: (206) 543-2390- Plans, designs, constructs and manages facilities such as airports,
buildings, bridges, dams, water, and sewage systems
- Structures
- Transportation
- Environmental
- Geotechnical
- Construction
- Water resources, hydrology & hydraulic systems
- Plans, designs, constructs and manages facilities such as airports,
buildings, bridges, dams, water, and sewage systems
- Computer Science & Engineering
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Department Chair: Hank Levy
Main Office: 101 Paul G. Allen Center
Phone: (206) 543-1695- Designs and implements both hardware and software computer systems
- Ubiquitous Computing and Embedded Systems
- Networking
- Operating Systems
- Databases and Data Mining
- Software Engineering
- Graphics, Vision and Animation
- Artifical Intelligence and Robotics
- Computational Biology
- Technology in Education
- Designs and implements both hardware and software computer systems
- Electrical Engineering
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Department Chair: Leung Tsang
Main Office: AE100R Paul G. Allen Center
Phone: (206) 221-5270- Designs, produces, and operates devices and systems that use electric
and electromagnetic energy for sensing, processing, visualizing and
use of information
- Circuits, systems and controls (robotics)
- Signal and image processing
- Electronics, electronic devices, and photonics
- Computers
- Energy systems
- Electromagnetics and optics
- Designs, produces, and operates devices and systems that use electric
and electromagnetic energy for sensing, processing, visualizing and
use of information
- Industrial Engineering
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Acting Director: Richard Storch
Main Office: G10 Mechanical Engineering Building
Phone: (206) 543-1427- Designs effective ways to improve the use of materials, people,
machines, and energy in manufacturing and other industries
- Business aspects of engineering
- Building layouts and equipment selection
- Financial planning and cost control systems
- Manufacturing productivity improvement
- Statistical quality control, linear optimization, and stochastic modelling
- Designs effective ways to improve the use of materials, people,
machines, and energy in manufacturing and other industries
- Materials Science & Engineering
Department Chair: Alex Jen
Main Office: 302 Roberts Hall
Phone: (206) 543-2600- Develops new materials, process methods, equipment, and material
uses
- Biomimetics and biomaterials
- Ceramic Properties
- Composite materials
- Electronic, optical and magnetic materials
- Materials characterization, chemistry, modelling
- Metals & alloys
- Polymers
- Develops new materials, process methods, equipment, and material
uses
- Mechanical Engineering
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Department Chair: Mark Tuttle
Main Office: 143 Mechanical Engineering Building
Phone: (206) 543-5090- Design and manufacturing of mechanical devices and systems
- Conversion of thermal, chemical, solar, and wind energies into mechanical energy through engines and other power plants
- Design and manufacturing processes, especially as applied to transportation systems (airplanes, automobiles, trucks, etc)
- Application of engineering principles to the study of biological systems
- Ultra-high precision system dynamics and control
- Analytical numerical, and experimental fluid and structural analysis
- Technical Communication
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Department Chair: Judy Ramey
Main Office: 14H Loew Hall
Phone: (206) 543-2567- Combines visual, analytical, and language skills with knowledge
of printed publications, computers, audio-visual communications,
and media
- Technical manuals
- On-line help systems
- Multi-media educational materials
- Web design
- Technical Japanese Program
- Combines visual, analytical, and language skills with knowledge
of printed publications, computers, audio-visual communications,
and media