The Trend alumni newsletter
Autumn 2026 Edition
Sowing the beads of life
UW Engineering researchers are adapting hydrogels to catalyze advances in farming, wastewater treatment, healthcare, biofuel, biomass and more.
Elevating emerging engineers
The Industry Capstone Program partners UW Engineering students with sponsor organizations to devise innovative solutions to real-world problems.
Chips2Future
A summer immersion in the epicenter of the modern semiconductor industry — Taiwan — was the experience of a lifetime for UW Engineering students.
UW Engineering launches Robotics programs
Cross-disciplinary Robotics graduate programs prepare engineers to lead the future of intelligent systems, advanced manufacturing, autonomous technologies and physical AI.
Engineering programs earn ABET accreditation
Eleven UW Engineering bachelor's degree programs have been accredited or reaccredited by ABET, the global accreditor of higher education programs in science, engineering and technology.
A collaboration worth celebration
The decade-long Boeing Advanced Research Collaboration is forging the future of flight — and providing a new model of strategic academic-industry partnership.
Rethinking shelf-stable food
With FDA acceptance of the first commercial food processing system based on his microwave sterilization technology, Juming Tang is helping reshape the future of shelf-stable food.
Engineering the future
Equipped with her doctorate in molecular engineering, Gizem Gökçe-Alpkılıç is using AI-powered tools to create proteins and solve global challenges, like drug-resistant infection.
Keeping watch on a one-of-a-kind bridge
UW researchers built a digital twin of Washington’s I-90 Homer Hadley floating bridge to monitor the world's first floating light rail crossing.
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