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March 10, 2010 | Fortune
magazine
Can
the Toyota Way survive Toyota's ways?
Despite
massive recalls, some say Toyota's lean philosophy has continued to be
well regarded as a model to follow. Not everyone is defending the Toyota
Way, however. Kailash Kapur, an industrial and systems engineering
professor at the University of Washington who has worked with General
Motors and Ford, said Toyota's troubles further prove why business
leaders should re-evaluate lean.
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Dec. 22, 2009 | Science
News
Texting
and driving don't mix, just as suspected
Sending
or receiving messages proves even worse than cell phone calls for young
adults on simulators. Linda Boyle, associate professor of civil &
environmental engineering and industrial and systems engineering who
studies driving distractions, is quoted.
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March 14, 2010 | The
New York Times
An
express lane from camera to computer
High-speed
data communication isn’t so speedy by the time it reaches your video
player or smartphone. But soon, some data exchanges between consumer
gadgets may travel at the higher rate of fiber optics. Electrical
engineer Michael Hochberg is quoted.
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March 15, 2010 | Time
magazine
How
safe is your cell phone?
Both
the National Cancer Institute and the World Health Organization say
there isn't evidence to support the assertion that cell phones are a
public-health threat. But some scientists worry that there has been a
dangerous rush to declare cell phones safe, using studies they feel are
inadequate and too often weighted toward the wireless industry's
interests. An analysis published by bioengineer Henry Lai determined
that far more independent studies than industry-funded studies have
found at least some type of biological effect from cell-phone exposure.
RELATED
MATERIAL
Exposure to low-level magnetic fields causes DNA damage
in rat brain cells, researchers find
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March 22, 2010 | The
Seattle Times
Minding
the young brain
Columnist
Jerry Large talks with John Medina about promoting academic success in
children, one of the most e-mailed Seattle Times stories last week.
Medina is an affiliate professor of bioengineering.
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March 21, 2010 | The
Everett Herald
Friendships
helped biotech pioneer rise to the top
In
January, the UW's Department of Bioengineering gave its first-ever
Volunteer Service Award. The recipient was Everett's Joe Eichinger,
whose pioneering career was spent not as an academic, but as a brilliant
entrepreneur. Bioengineer Paul Yager is quoted.
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March 11, 2010 | The
Seattle Times
Medical
device entrepreneur Joe Eichinger dies
Joe
Eichinger, who spent a lifetime building a career as one of the region's
best-known medical-device entrepreneurs, died Monday at his Everett
home. Mr. Eichinger valued new ideas coming out of the UW. He spent many
hours teaching students and faculty how to translate those skills into
the business world. This year, he became the first-ever recipient of the
UW's Department of Bioengineering Service Award.
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March 21, 2010 | The
Tacoma News Tribune
Light
winter means water supply is low
Stream
flow predictions for this summer are way down. That’s bad news for
hydropower generators, farmers and fish. “It’s the classic El Niņo
pattern, where more of the precipitation heads south and we get less in
the north,” said civil engineer Alan Hamlet, a hydrologist with the UW’s
Climate Impacts Group.
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Feb. 1, 2010 | Discovery
Channel magazine
Clean
chemistry
We
tend to take cleaning products for granted, trusting they are safe for
children and pets. Not always, though. Civil and environmental engineer
Anne Steinemann has found toxins in the products' fragrances.
SOURCE
MATERIAL
Toxic chemicals found in common scented laundry
products, air fresheners |
July 23, 2008
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Feb. 25, 2010 | The
(UK) Times
Meet
Marvin, the robot that can plug itself in
For
the first time, machines have become truly automatic, able to move
around and continue their tasks without humans needing to juice them up.
The device is the brainchild of Josh Smith, principal engineer at Intel
Labs Seattle and affiliate professor in the UW department of electrical
engineering and computer science & engineering, who had spent years
working on machinery that can sense electric fields.
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March 4, 2010 | The
Wall Street Journal: Digits blog
Microsoft's
Ballmer: 'Competition' is helping search business
Ballmer
spoke to computer science students at the University of Washington,
where he spent most of his time emphasizing how seriously Microsoft is
taking “cloud computing,” a trend towards online applications.
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March 4, 2010 | Puget
Sound Business Journal: TechFlash blog
Notes:
Steve Ballmer's 'Five dimensions of the cloud'
Speaking
at the University of Washington this morning, Microsoft CEO Steve
Ballmer laid out his vision for cloud computing -- describing a future
in which distributed networks of data centers create new opportunities
for businesses and individual "creators," and transform the activities
of cloud computing providers.
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March 4, 2010 | The
Seattle Times: Brier Dudley's blog
Microsoft's
Ballmer to UW students: E-mail me for a job
Cloud
computing was the focus of Steve Ballmer's talk at the University of
Washington today, but the Microsoft chief executive was also doing a
little recruiting. Ballmer told the packed house at the computer science
department's Paul G. Allen Center that Microsoft is the area's biggest
local employer and "we'd love to have you."
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March 4, 2010 | The
Seattle Times: Brier Dudley's blog
Video:
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer at UW
Here's
Steve Ballmer's speech at the UW. It has demos of new Bing maps
features, a peek at a Windows Mobile 7 phone and a funny video where
people on the UW campus try to define the term "cloud computing."
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Feb. 28, 2010 | The
Tacoma News Tribune
UW
Tacoma Institute of Technology hasn't yet realized creators' dreams
The
UW Institute of Technology has awarded more than 500 bachelor’s and
master’s degrees in computer science, computer engineering and
information technology. It currently has 236 undergraduates and 36
graduate students. Now a dispute between UWT administration and some on
the institute’s faculty and advisory board has exposed an institution in
transition, if not in trouble. Larry Crum, an emeritus research
professor in engineering and bioengineering and the founding director of
the institute, is quoted.
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Feb. 26, 2010 | West
Seattle Herald
Slide
show: Schmitz Park School goes global
Schmitz
Park Elementary School hosted international UW students as part of the
grade school’s “Passport” program. Heba Al Mohsin from Saudi Arabia, who
plans to major in materials science and engineering, and Andreas
Svensson, a graduate student in mechanical engineering, were among 30
students who represented the Foundation for International Understanding
Through Students.
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March 3, 2010 | Los
Angeles Times
Engineer
Fahim Anwar becomes a comedian
Until
recently, Fahim Anwar was leading a double-life: Aerospace engineer by
day. Comedian by night. Now the UW mechanical engineering alum and
former Boeing employee guest-starring role as an M.I.T. dropout on
"Chuck" aired in early February. His gig on MTV's reality show "Disaster
Date" (in which he plays one of the disasters) debuts in May.
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