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CoE
NewsFlash | Vol. 4, No. 2 | May 26, 2010 |
NewsFlash is a monthly email of press items featuring our College's researchers. For a more complete and regularly updated list of COE media coverage, see In the Media.
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NewsFlash is a service of the UW College of Engineering and the UW Office of News and Information. If you have a newsworthy result about one month from publication, presentation or demonstration, please contact Hannah Hickey at (206-543-2580, hickeyh@uw.edu). |
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May 19, 2010 | Puget
Sound Business Journal: TechFlash blog
MicroGreen
raises $7 million, develops next-generation coffee cup
While
designing a lower-cost and higher-quality coffee cup is one of
MicroGreen Polymers' higher profile projects, the University of
Washington spin-out from mechanical engineer Vipin Kumar's lab is so
much more than that.
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May 19, 2010 | BusinessWeek
(via Associated Press)
Waste
Management invests in MicroGreen
Waste
Management Inc. is teaming up with a group of investors to help finance
MicroGreen Polymers Inc. Based in Seattle, MicroGreen uses its patented
technology to reduce the amount plastic required for production of
consumer products.
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May 20, 2010 | KPLU
Radio
Creating
life with synthetic biology
A
biological breakthrough is sending ripples through the scientific world.
Researchers have created the world's first organism whose genetic
material was assembled in a laboratory. Electrical engineer Georg Seelig
is quoted.
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May 17, 2010 | New
Scientist
Innovation:
Teaching robots some manners
Computer
science graduate student Peter Henry, adviser Dieter Fox and
collaborators think they can help robots learn to move through a crowd
as humans do. Rather than pre-programming fixed instructions, the team
thinks it's simpler to drop a robot untrained into the real world but
equip it with the smarts to study and mimic the behavior of those around
them.
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May 18, 2010 | Puget
Sound Business Journal: TechFlash blog
Video:
Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn welcomes Facebook
Seattle
Mayor Mike McGinn, UW computer science professor Ed Lazowska and other
political and technology leaders were on hand today to welcome Facebook
to Seattle. UW computer science and engineering alum Greg Badros,
Facebook's director of engineering, also spoke at the event.
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May 1, 2010 | Chemistry
World
Managing
change: Returning to academia
Over
the years, various programs have had little success encouraging women to
apply for academic positions in science and engineering. That's why
electrical engineer Eve Riskin, who directs the UW's ADVANCE program,
created On-Ramps to help outstanding women researchers in industry
become professors. She especially hopes to recruit women industrial
chemists for the next On-Ramps workshop, in spring 2011.
RELATED
MATERIAL
Workshop seeks to lure women researchers from
industry to academia
| April 21, 2009
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May 23, 2010 | The
Seattle Times (via Everett Herald)
Too
few engineers to meet Boeing's need
Adam
Bruckner has noticed a disturbing trend during his 38 years as a UW
professor of aeronautics engineering. His tests are less rigorous. His
students, less prepared. Even the format of classes is changing,
morphing into something that requires less manpower and smaller amounts
of state money. Bruckner, the chair of the only aeronautical engineering
program in the Pacific Northwest, comments on the situation in an
article that appeared on many news sites.
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May 23, 2010 | The
Everett Herald
Brain drain
among Boeing's biggest challenges
Jim
Albaugh, president of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, considers the wave of
retirements as “the intellectual disarmament” of this country. And the
state’s budget crunch hasn't helped. Last year the UW turned away four
out of every 10 qualified engineering students, at a time when a
shortage of engineers is expected.
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May 3, 2010 | The
Seattle Times
UW:
Hard course ahead for funding
Due
to state budget cuts, the University of Washington's next president will
lead an institution that is much more autonomous from the state — an
institution that, in some ways, will more closely resemble a private
university. Some advocate the controversial idea of "differential
tuition." Proponents say more-expensive subjects — for instance,
engineering and computer science — typically lead to higher-paying jobs.
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If you have a newsworthy result about one month
from publication, presentation or demonstration, please contact Hannah
Hickey, hickeyh@uw.edu. Notice
of student and faculty awards and grants is also welcome.
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