Recent Honors

Eve Riskin (ECE) received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. 08/20 More »

Jessica Ray (CEE) was named a member of the 2020 Talented 12 list of young chemists working to solve world problems by the weekly newsmagazine Chemical & Engineering News, or C&EN. 08/20 More »

Richard Ladner (CSE) was the recipient of the National Science Board's 2020 Public Service Award, for his career of contributions to increasing public understanding of science and engineering. 08/20 More »

Maryam Fazel (ECE) has been named the first recipient of the new Moorthy Family Inspiration Career Development Professorship, for her work as a researcher and educator. 08/20 More »

Adriana Schulz (CSE) and Nadya Peek (HCDE) have have been named as “Innovators Under 35” recognized by MIT Technology Review as part of its 2020 TR35 Awards. 06/18 More »

Arka Majumdar (ECE) and Lillian Ratliff (ECE) are each a recipient of the 2020 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program (ONR YIP) award. 04/20 More »

10 UW engineering professors receive Google Faculty Research Awards: Tom Anderson, Jennifer Mankoff, James Fogarty, Jon Froelich, Sewoong Oh and Adriana Schulz of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering; Leah Findlater and Sean Munson of the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering; Julian Marshall of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering; and Amy Orsborn of both the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and the Department of Bioengineering. 03/20 More »

 Hannaneh Hajishirzi (CSE) and Yin Tat Lee (CSE) were awarded Sloan Research Fellowships. 02/20

Steven L. Kramer (CEE) was elected a memeber of the National Academy of Engineering for his contributions to geotechnical earthquake engineering, including liquefaction, seismic stability, and seismic site response. 02/20

Behçet Açıkmeşe (A&A) received the 2019 Award for Technical Excellence in Aerospace Control from the IEEE Control System Society. 12/19

Justin Little (A&A) was a recipient of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Research Program. 10/19

Uri Shumlak (A&A) was elected American Physical Society Fellow. 10/19

Corie L. Cobb (ME) is the recipient of a 2019 DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA). 09/19 More »

Per Reinhall (ME) and Mari Ostendorf (ECE) have been elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences. 07/19 More »

Steve Brunton (ME), Alvin Cheung (CSE), Elizabeth Nance (ChemE), and Kevin Schneider (ECE affilate) are the recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers 07/19

Corie L. Cobb (ME) is the recipient of a 2019 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award (NTFA) 05/19 More »

Shwetak Patel (CSE, ECE) Shwetak Patel will receive the prestigious ACM Prize in Computing for "contributions to creative and practical sensing systems for sustainability and health." 04/19 More: UW News » |  CSE News » |  ECE News

Mark Zachry (HCDE) was named Fellow of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing in honor of his scholarly productivity, leadership, and service to the field. 3/19 More »

Steve Brunton (ME) won the 2019 SIAG/CSE Early Career Prize. 03/19 More »

Mari Ostendorf (ECE) has been elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics. She also won the 2018 IEEE Flanagan Medal. 12/18

Matthew O’Donnell (BioE) received the 2019 IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award "for leadership in biomedical ultrasonics and medical imaging technologies." 12/18 More »

Daniel Schwartz (ChemE, CEI) received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the NSF. 10/18 More »

Yinhai Wang (CEE) received ITE Innovation in Education Award. 07/18 More »

Brett Maurer (CEE) received a CAREER award to investigate long-past earthquakes by studying soil liquefaction.. 06/18 More »

David Castner (ChemE) received the AVS’s highest research honor, the Medard W. Welch Award for leading advances in surface analysis methods applied to organic and biological samples. 6/18 More »

Eve Riskin (EE) received the 2017 Diversity Award of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association. 05/18 More »

Steve Kramer (CEE) was presented with the 2018 H. Bolton Seed Medal by the American Society of Civil Engineers. 03/18 More »

Yin Tat Lee (CSE) has won an NSF CAREER Award to develop new, efficient algorithms for convex optimization. 02/18 More »

Anne Goodchild (CEE) was named 2017 Person of the Year by Transportation Club of Seattle. 02/18 More »