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For researchers in the UW’s UbiComp Lab, a smartphone offers much more than access to email, Facebook and Pokémon Go: It has the power to detect disease and, ultimately, save lives.

The UWashington Hyperloop student team has been working hard to actualize transonic speed travel. This winter, they travel slightly more slowly to SpaceX headquarters to test their progress.

Alumnus Marc Edwards named one of the world’s most influential people by Time Magazine for uncovering Flint lead poisoning.

Upon graduation with a degree in industrial and systems engineering, Mike Francis embarked on two seemingly unrelated paths: one, as an industrial engineer with The Boeing Company, and the other as a home brewing hobbyist.

The brainchild of an ME alumnus-turned-Boeing engineer and two faculty members, BARC presents a unique path for university-industry collaboration.

The College of Engineering and Burke Museum partner on a 3-D scan-and-print project of mammoth proportions.