Washington Engineer - July 2011 Video Message
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Hi, I'm Matt O'Donnell, dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Washington.
I'm very pleased to announce that the National Science Foundation awarded a new Engineering Research Center in Sensorimotor Neural Engineering to the University of Washington. This center represents a university-wide collaboration with faculty across campus and with our partner institutions in Boston and San Diego, and also international partners in Tokyo and Vancouver.
As part of the center, we have a rich connection of companies involved in the neural engineering field, and I like to think of this network being a rich dendritic network with connections that will help to revolutionize the field of both neural engineering and advanced prosthetics.
This center complements our Science and Technology Center in optoelectronic materials and devices and represents the second major NSF center we have in the College of Engineering.
I'm also very pleased to welcome the U Dub's new president, Michael Young. Michael comes to us from the University of Utah, where he was president there, and during his tenure raised the budget from $1.6 billion to $2.6 billion.
We're really excited about his role in technology transfer and the way he transformed it at Utah. During his five years there, his spinoffs totaled 102, which led the nation. We really look forward to working with him to advance tech transfer and overall commercialization of technologies in the college.
Learn more about the new president, the new center, and more college news in this issue. Thanks for reading Washington Engineer.