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Group photo of the NEMS 2023 class

Tue, 12/26/2023 | UW Institute for Nano-Engineered Systems

Empowering students with nanotechnology insights

Seattle-are community college students explore nanotechnology through a four-week intensive summer program that is part of the Path to UW Program.

A hand wearing a glove next to a paw print in the snow

Tue, 12/26/2023 | UW News

How changing snow affects wildlife

Two UW professors teamed up to find out how climate change will affect how predators hunt prey.

child's hands adjusting a circuit board

Mon, 12/18/2023

The art of early engineering education

Embracing creativity, four faculty reach the earliest of audiences and inspire the next generation of engineers.

Woman standing next to a metal railing, placing an object inside a flume at the Harris Hydraulics Lab

Mon, 12/18/2023 | UW Mechanical Engineering

Monitoring for marine life

A team is testing new methods to assess the potential impacts of tidal turbines on marine mammals.

A group of students standing behind small aircrafts placed on the floor

Wed, 12/13/2023

Taking hands-on learning to new heights

More than 80 students join together to design and develop a radio-controlled aircraft as part of the UW chapter of Design Build Fly.

Campus view in the fall

Mon, 12/11/2023 | UW News

2023's highly cited researchers

Congrats to College of Engineering faculty and researchers who've been named to Clarivate's Highly Cited Researchers list for 2023.

a group of people wearing safety vests and hardhats standing in the IEB construction site

Mon, 12/11/2023

Construction site turned classroom

Undergraduates from civil and environmental engineering tour the under-construction Interdisciplinary Engineering Building to inspect reinforcing steel.

This image compares 16 images generated by Stable Diffusion. In the lower right quadrant, images generated to represent “a person from Papua New Guinea” show four dark-skinned people, while the other 12 images, representing people from Oceania, Australia and New Zealand show only light-skinned people.

Thu, 12/07/2023 | UW News

AI imaging software and stereotypes

A UW study has found that AI image generator Stable Diffusion perpetuates racial and gendered stereotypes.

An assistive-feeding robotic arm attached to a wheelchair uses a fork to stab a piece of fruit on a plate among other fruits.

Tue, 12/05/2023 | UW News

A robot's journey

Allen School researchers discuss the successes and challenges of developing assistive-feeding robots.

Margot Adam standing in front of a lake outside of Austin, Texas

Fri, 12/01/2023 | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering

Public policy and renewable energy

Recent electrical and computer engineering grad Margot Adam is studying public policy to improve renewable energy production, distribution and access.