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Two students stand on either side of a canoe and fasten foam insulation to the sides

Thu, 02/08/2024

Making a big splash

Members of the UW Concrete Canoe Team gain hands-on experience designing and constructing a canoe almost entirely out of concrete.

Nancy Allbritton

Tue, 02/06/2024 | National Academy of Engineering

Nancy Allbritton elected to the NAE

The Frank & Julie Jungers Dean of the College of Engineering and professor of bioengineering has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Election to the Academy is one of the highest honors given to an engineer. 

A person wearing safety glasses looking at electronic equipment

Tue, 02/06/2024 | UW Clean Energy Institute

Clean energy graduate certificate

Launched this year, the Clean Energy Institute's new graduate certificate in clean energy is open to all UW grad students.

A group of people around a table working on a project together

Thu, 02/01/2024 | UW Mechanical Engineering

A healthy collaboration

Engineering students and faculty partner with UW Medicine to create devices that can treat multi-organ failure and improve catheter safety.

Mo Malakoutian smiling at the camera

Tue, 01/30/2024 | UW Civil and Environmental Engineering

Expanding impact

Affiliate instructor and alumnus Mo Malakoutian on how he's applied his engineering background to public service and local government.

Ed Habtour and Lauren Kuehne headshots.

Thu, 01/25/2024 | UW Aeronautics and Astronautics

An inclusive workshop

Aeronautics & Astronautics finds success with a model adapted from Aquatic & Fishery Sciences that strengthens fellowship applications and fosters community.

closeup of cabbage in soil

Tue, 01/23/2024 | UW Human Centered Design & Engineering

Reimagining smart agriculture

UW engineers and computer scientists receive an NSF grant to reimagine smart agriculture with black diasporic farming communities.

Laurelhurst with a conceptual overlaid network

Tue, 01/23/2024 | UW Industrial Systems and Engineering

Building community resilience

Industrial and systems engineering chair Cynthia Chen will lead an interdisciplinary NSF-funded effort to transform disaster response.

Close up of a smart phone on top of a book with the ChatGPT app opened on the screen

Thu, 01/18/2024 | UW News

ChatGPT and other language models

UW researchers answer common questions about language models like ChatGPT.

Two men working on a motherboard covered with circuits

Wed, 01/17/2024 | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering

A new chip for wireless communication

A UW research team has designed a computer chip that can send and receive large amounts of data at high speeds while minimizing signal distortion.