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Mishaal Aleem, Dustin Richmond and Kate Schultz

Mon, 11/15/2021

Promoting equity in engineering

Three alumni reflect on the impact that the College of Engineering’s PEERs program has had on their work as engineers and computer scientists.
 

Political ads and the election - examples

Tue, 11/09/2021 | UW News

Political ads and the election

UW researchers find that political ads during the 2020 presidential election cycle collected personal information and spread misleading information.

Robert Masse

Fri, 11/05/2021 | Clean Energy Institute

Elevating battery standards for the skies

Founded by MSE doctoral student Robert Masse, Astrolabe Analytics wins a small business innovation research grant from the U.S. Air Force to accelerate battery innovation for electric aviation.

headshot of Princess Imoukhuede

Tue, 11/02/2021 | UW Medicine Newsroom

Princess Imoukhuede announced as chair of Bioengineering

The incoming Hunter and Dorothy Simpson Endowed Chair and Professor of the Department of Bioengineering will join the UW in January from the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis.

team photo

Mon, 11/01/2021 | UW News

Designing an ‘adaptable society’

A UW-led team has received NSF funding to further research into how urban societal systems can be organized to be both efficient and resilient.

a plane being assembled in a factory with two insets of PIXI-DUST graphs in the top right corner

Wed, 10/27/2021 | UW Mechanical Engineering

Putting the ‘AI’ in airplanes

Machine learning presents tremendous opportunities to improve how we build airplanes. ME Assistant Professor Krithika Manohar is just getting started.

Karen Thomas-Brown

Mon, 10/25/2021

Meet Karen Thomas-Brown

The College’s new Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion shares what drew her to the role and offers advice on what we all can do to support DEI efforts.
 

A video still frame that shows a student testing a rover

Wed, 10/20/2021 | UW News

Students design a rover to help fish

As part of an industry capstone project, engineering students created a rover to inspect sewer pipes and culverts for damage that may prevent fish migration.

High altitude view of Earth at night

Wed, 10/20/2021 | UW Aeronautics and Astronautics

WA Space Grant moves to A&A

The renowned NASA program's relocation to A&A will help strengthen hands-on student learning.

Azadeh Yazdan headshot

Wed, 10/20/2021 | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering

Azadeh Yazdan receives $3.2M grant to investigate ways neurotechnology could induce targeted changes in the brain, leading to better treatments for stroke

UW ECE News Stroke is a killer, and for those who survive, it can have a devastating impact. According to the World Stroke Organization, the disease is a leading cause of death and disability globally, causing an estimated 5.5 million deaths and 116 million years of healthy life to be lost…