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A yellow aquatic drone on a body of water with residential buildings and palm trees in the background

Fri, 12/06/2024 | UW Civil & Environmental Engineering

Capturing Hurricane Helene

The RAPID Facility team deployed sensors and drones in Florida to gather critical data before and after Hurricane Helene’s landfall.

AI medical image analysis model

Wed, 12/04/2024 | UW News

Spotting systemic diseases with AI

BiomedParse is an AI medical image analysis model that works across nine types of medical images to better predict systemic diseases, such as lupus and diabetes.

Two lithium ion batteries on a conveyer belt

Mon, 12/02/2024 | UW News

Academia and U.S. battery manufacturing

Jie Xiao, a professor of mechanical engineering, talks about batteries and how academia can help support the growing domestic battery manufacturing industry.

UW ECE Assistant Professor Sajjad Moazeni stands next to columns in Sylvan Grove on the UW campus.

Tue, 11/26/2024 | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering

The need for speed

Electrical & Computer Engineering's Sajjad Moazeni is developing a new kind of optical interconnect for data centers supporting AI and machine learning in the cloud.

David Prendez demonstrates how the car simulator works in the Human Factors and Statistical Modeling Lab.

Thu, 11/21/2024 | UW Industrial & Systems Engineering

Beyond autopilot

Engineering safer, smarter interactions with self-driving cars.

Two people sitting inside an AI generated sound bubble graphic

Tue, 11/19/2024 | UW News

AI headphones create sound bubble

A UW-led research team has developed a headphone prototype that allows listeners to hear people speaking within a bubble with a programmable radius of 3 to 6 feet.

A white square piece of foam on top of a bowl of vegetables.

Thu, 11/14/2024 | UW Material Science & Engineering

The future of foam

Engineering alumnus John Felts' bio-based foam is making waves in the packing industry.

The Liao family at the Wing Luke Museum. Photo credit: Wing Luke Museum.

Tue, 11/12/2024

A lasting legacy

A transformative gift from the Liao family supports the new Interdisciplinary Engineering Building.

The International Space Station

Fri, 11/08/2024 | UW News

Biology in Space

NASA has awarded $2.5 million to establish a regional scientific consortium based at the UW to study the effect of the space environment on living organisms.

Bridge across Elwha River

Wed, 11/06/2024 | UW Industrial & Systems Engineering

AI-driven disaster preparedness

PhD student Julia Lensing is leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance disaster preparedness and infrastructure resilience in Washington.