UW Department of Mechanical Engineering

Husky 100

Congrats to the ME students in this year’s Husky 100 — a cohort of students making the most of their time at the UW.

Meet the Husky 100

A move toward mobility

Undergraduate student Thomas Brown hopes to use his engineering skills to improve mobility aids.

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What is ME? Research Areas Faculty Future Students Current Students Courses

UW ME is hiring faculty

Explore our department's available tenure-track assistant professor faculty positions.

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Why choose ME?

Learn about ME, job trends, answers to frequently asked questions and more.

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A new way to monitor the brain

ME researchers developed a device that could measure brain pressure to better understand sleep issues or traumatic brain injury.

Reengineering pediatric mobility aids

ME doctoral student Mia Hoffman studies self-initiated mobility in toddlers with neuromuscular conditions.

AI for engineering

Two new professional programs, directed by ME Professor Steve Brunton, enable engineers to add AI and machine learning to their expertise.

Improving medical images

ME Assistant Professor Ashish Manohar shares how mechanical engineers can contribute to improving medical imaging for better health outcomes.

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May

18

Mon

A&A Distinguished Speaker Seminar with UCSB's Bassam Bamieh

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Student Union Building (HUB) - 334
May

19

Tue

PhD Final Examination: Carlos Abarca

10:00 am - 11:30 am
May

19

Tue

ME Seminar: John Palmore Jr., UW ME

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Interdisciplinary Engineering Building (IEB) - Interdisciplinary Engineering Building G106
May

20

Wed

PhD Final Examination: Mia Hoffman

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

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ALUMNI CONNECTIONS

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Mentoring students, supporting industry collaboration, and being part of the vision to expand UW ME’s facilities are ways alumni help shape the future of the department.

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COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION

Translating ideas into impact

The UW is launching hundreds of companies across a wide range of fields. ME is a leading department at the UW for innovation, commercialization and industry collaboration, making up 14% of all UW startups.

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HUSKY EXPERIENCE

Clubs & competitions

Registered student organizations are a way to work on a hands-on project while gaining key skills in leadership, teamwork and time management. Our students build electric vehicles, adapted toys, race cars, robots, submarines and more.

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About the department

Research areas

Learn how ME is working to create a healthier, more sustainable world.

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DEPARTMENT SPOTLIGHT

Eric Seibel

Research Professor,
Mechanical Engineering

As director of the UW Human Photonics Lab, Eric Seibel is a research professor in ME and an adjunct research professor in bioengineering, electrical & computer engineering and oral health sciences. Seibel has co-developed an optical projection tomography microscope and invented the scanning fiber endoscope. The Human Photonics Lab's goals are to advance the frontier of medical devices and optical technologies to enhance human performance, detect diseases and guide treatments.

Improving cancer diagnoses

A medical device, developed in part by Seibel's lab, provides rapid imaging of biopsies to improve breast cancer diagnoses.

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#1 the UW’s ranking for most innovative public university in the U.S. by Reuters in 2019

2x national average female undergraduates

#3 source of UW startups

923 new patents filed
since 2012

14 affiliated research centers

$13M annual research funding

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