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Mon, 06/24/2024 | UW News

US News's Best Graduate Engineering Programs

In U.S. News & Report's recently updated rankings, the College of Engineering ranks No. 21 overall and nine engineering subdisciplines rank in the top 35.

A researcher uses RAPID monitoring technology to collect data in the aftermath of Washington’s Bolt Creek wildfire in 2022. Photo courtesy of RAPID center.

Thu, 06/20/2024 | UW Civil & Environmental Engineering

Enhancing disaster response & public health research

 The Natural Hazard and Disaster Reconnaissance Facility (RAPID) has received an NIH grant to enhance research on the intersection of engineering and public health.

Jon Schlueter plays guitar in the lab of UW Medicine professor Chet Moritz.

Mon, 06/17/2024 | UW Medicine

Restoring hand function

UW engineering and medicine researchers are leading groundbreaking research enabling some people with paralysis to regain hand strength and function via electrical stimulation to the spine.

A group of people posing to the camera on a red semi-truck in a workshop.

Fri, 06/14/2024 | UW Mechanical Engineering

An electrifying experience

New this year, the student club Electric Truck (E-Truck) is converting a medium-duty diesel truck into a battery electric vehicle.

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Tue, 06/11/2024 | UW Human Centered Design & Engineering

Designing for 21st century challenges

Microsoft support drives human centered design and engineering innovation in design education.

A person sits in the middle of grassland with a laptop. There are trees surrounding the researcher.

Fri, 06/07/2024 | UW News

In the field

Civil and environmental engineering doctoral student Joel Eklof is in Alaska studying factors that lead to permafrost thaw and educating foster care youth.

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Wed, 06/05/2024 | UW News

Isolating one voice with a glance

UW researchers have developed AI headphones that let the wearer listen to a single person in a crowd, by looking at them just once.

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Mon, 06/03/2024 | UW Mechanical Engineering

From clubs to careers

Mechanical engineering students, alumni and faculty share how student clubs and organizations can lead to successful careers.

A collage shows multiple teams participating in the Dempsey Startup Competition. Participants hold large checks and celebrate their achievements on stage.

Thu, 05/30/2024 | UW Foster School of Business

Dempsey Startup Competition recap

Congrats to the engineering students and alums on the winning teams from this year's Dempsey Startup Competition! Alumnus Paul Mikesell, '96, was also honored at the event.

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Tue, 05/28/2024 | UW Materials Science and Engineering

A breadth of knowledge

Materials science and engineering students displayed a wide range of research topics to peers, faculty and industry professionals at the 2024 Research & Industry Showcase in April.

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Thu, 05/23/2024 | UW News

Older adults, tech and COVID

UW researchers interviewed 16 adults, ages 65 to 80, about how their technology use with their social support networks changed during the pandemic.

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Wed, 05/22/2024 | UW Aeronautics and Astronautics

Origami breakthrough

Ph.D. student Jimmy O’Neil proves origami tubes deliver softer impacts and breaks a manufacturing barrier with broad applications.

A black-and-white photo of a computer chip with the letters "AI" stamped on it, mounted to a motherboard

Wed, 05/22/2024 | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering

A call for AI data transparency

Electrical and computer engineering alumnus and affiliate professor Jai Jaisimha is the co-founder of the Transparency Coalition.ai, a nonprofit that advocates for transparency and regulation of the data used to train artificial intelligence.

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Fri, 05/17/2024 | UW News

Curbing misinformation on YouTube

UW researchers have developed a prototype browser extension called Viblio, which lets viewers and creators add citations to the timelines of YouTube videos.

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Wed, 05/15/2024 | UW Electrical and Computer Engineering

Why animals can outrun robots

Researchers investigate why walking, running, and jumping are challenging tasks for robots while the same activities appear to be relatively easy for humans and other animals.

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Mon, 05/13/2024 | UW News

Reducing teen stress with VR

UW researchers find that a virtual reality environment for teens may offer an accessible, affordable way to reduce stress.

A small brown circuit board sits on a gray background. To its right are a small copper plate, sheets of glass fibers in a crosshatch pattern, small chunks of vitrimer plastic that’s been removed from a circuit board, and a computer chip.

Thu, 05/09/2024 | UW News

Recyclable circuit boards

A UW-led team has developed a printed circuit board that can be recycled repeatedly with negligible material loss.

A group of students, including one adult and several pre-teens, engaging in a science experiment in a classroom setting

Tue, 05/07/2024 | UW News

Discovery Days 2024

Elementary and middle school students from across Washington visited the UW to learn about engineering at Discovery Days this month.

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Thu, 05/02/2024 | UW Civil & Environmental Engineering

A biochar solution for urban runoff

Civil and environmental engineering researchers test biologically derived charcoal filters and fungi as tools in purifying city waters, a step towards eco-friendly solutions.

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Mon, 04/29/2024 | UW News

Understanding TikTok

Allen School Associate Professor Franziska Roesner discusses how TikTok’s ‘black box’ algorithm and design shape user behavior.

A woman in a white lab coat and blue gloves sitting at a desk with a computer displaying green fluorescent cell imaging

Thu, 04/25/2024 | UW Medicine

AI to help speed protein engineering

Study findings promise to shift the field away from trial-and-error approach and toward computational approaches.

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Mon, 04/22/2024 | UW News

UPWARDS for the future

The UW is leading an international group in semiconductor research and workforce development.

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Wed, 04/17/2024 | UW Chemical Engineering

Recruiting robots for materials discovery

Chemical engineering researchers are using open-source tools to build modular robots that can run complex experiments.

Jenq Neng Hwang

Mon, 04/15/2024 | UW News

Training AI without enough data

 Jeng-Neng Hwang, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, discusses his team's method to training AI when there are limited datasets.

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Thu, 04/11/2024 | UW News

US News' Best Graduate Schools

UW's graduate programs in AI, programming language, systems and computer science overall placed in the top ten. Other engineering programs have yet to be announced.