College of Engineering
Washington Engineer

April 2023

The waves of San Diego dyed pink for tracking
 
Research with a splash of color
 
The phrase “a splash of color” took on a very literal meaning for a research team that is using environmentally safe pink dye to investigate the movement of water where a river flows into the ocean.
 
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Zerina Kapetanovic adjusting test equipment at the UW campus
 
A new form of wireless communication
 
A UW research team is the first to demonstrate a system enabling devices to send and receive data without relying on externally generated or ambient radio frequency signals.
 
 
 
Professor Charles Marcus makes adjustments on equipment in his lab at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark
 
Asking quantum questions
 
Asking deep, possibly unknowable, questions has been the driving force behind Charles Marcus’s entire life. Marcus joined the UW in March as a professor of materials science and engineering and of physics.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Di Xiao headshot
 
Di Xiao named chair of Materials Science & Engineering
 
The professor — who has a joint appointment in materials science and engineering, physics, and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory — began his chair appointment in March.
 
 
 
Patrick Boyle, center, with bioengineering Ph.D. candidate Alexander Ochs, left, and junior Jamie Yang, right, in the CardSS Lab looking at a computer screen
 
Research from the heart
 
When it comes to cardiac systems research, Patrick Boyle wants to play his cards right. Boyle is an assistant professor of bioengineering.
 
 
 
A smartphone being used to screen a blood sample
 
Using smartphones for blood sugar screening
 
UW and UW Medicine researchers modified a commercially available test strip into a prototype that enables people to self-test for prediabetes.
 
 
 
 

Kai-Mei Fu discusses the potential of quantum research and its importance

 
Research | UW News
 
 

Michelle DiBenedetto receives NSF CAREER Award for research on microplastics at the ocean surface

 
Awards | Mechanical Engineering
 
 

Arvind Krishnamurthy and Michael Taylor to help spur innovation in distributed computing through new multi-university research center

 
Research | Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
 
 

Behçet Açıkmeşe elected AIAA Fellow

 
Awards | William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics
 
 

Dayong Gao announced as ISBER president

 
Awards | Mechanical Engineering
 
 

Georg Seelig receives Rozenberg Tulip Award for work in DNA computing

 
Awards | Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
 
 

Juan Carlos Idrobo named MSA Fellow for microscopy contributions

 
Awards | Materials Science & Engineering
 
 

UW researchers develop a new approach for measuring the speed of enzymes on the genomic highway

 
Research | Bioengineering
 
 

Leilani Battle awarded 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship for work with massive datasets

 
Awards | Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
 
 

PacTrans receives $15 million USDOT renewal grant to expand work to improve the movement of people and goods

 
Awards | Civil & Environmental Engineering
 
 

Aeronautics and astronautics researchers develop film evaporation experiment for the International Space Station

 
Research | William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics
 
 

Yinhai Wang honored with ASCE’s 2023 Francis Turner Award, elevated to Distinguished Member

 
Awards | Civil & Environmental Engineering
 
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