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Mon, 12/07/2020 | UW News
The Smellicopter is an obstacle-avoiding drone that uses a live moth antenna to seek out smellsA new bio-hybrid drone uses a moth antenna to autonomously sniff out odors.
Tue, 12/01/2020
Lessons from a decade as ME chair
At the end of this year Per Reinhall will conclude his second term as “Chair Per” and return to research and teaching.
Mon, 11/16/2020 | edg3 FUND
Video features ME 'Water Warriors'
A new video from Kitsap Bank's edg3 FUND highlights ME students in the startup Aquagga. Aquagga is a finalist in the 2020 edg3 FUND competition.
Fri, 11/13/2020 | WE-REACH
Chung wins WE-REACH funding for COVID-19 rapid diagnostics
Jae-Hyun Chung is developing a portable COVID-19 test using an innovative nanotube sensor-based technology.
Thu, 11/05/2020
Steve Shen: Journal Editor Extraordinaire
Through a concerted effort over six years, making sometimes difficult decisions, Steve Shen doubled the impact factor of the ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics.
Tue, 10/27/2020
‘Eigensteve’ Brunton: YouTubing math for engineers
With over four million views and 90,000 subscribers, Professor Steve Brunton’s YouTube channel simplifies the mathematical fundamentals behind data-driven engineering concepts.
Thu, 09/24/2020
Welcome new faculty
Join us in welcoming new faculty to the ME department this school year.
Wed, 09/02/2020
UW teams up with regional first responders on mask decontamination
Thanks to a unique and innovative Washington partnership, first responders have a new tool for the pandemic. Stations across the region have begun receiving University of Washington-designed, locally manufactured systems to decontaminate the high-demand face masks needed to protect them from COVID-19 while carrying out their essential duties.
Tue, 09/01/2020 | UW Mechanical Engineering
Life suspended: The past and future of cryopreservation
The idea of freezing and later thawing out the human body has been a favorite of storytellers for decades, but the science of cryopreservation may be even more interesting.
Mon, 08/24/2020 | UW College of Engineering
Engineering STARS
ME alumna Ewurama Karikari and other STARS graduates fill us in on what they’ve been up to since receiving their engineering degrees.
Tue, 08/18/2020 | UW Industrial & Systems Engineering
Banerjee wins Amazon award
Ashis Banerjee has been awarded a prestigious 2019 Amazon Research Award.
Thu, 08/06/2020 | UW Mechanical Engineering
Engineering innovations offer promise during pandemic
Engineering innovations confront health care challenges with new urgency during the COVID-19 crisis.
Mon, 07/27/2020 | Dept of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
Can the coronavirus spread in hospital air?
Using state-of-the-art sensors, ME and Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences researchers are teaming up with UW colleagues to track aerosols in a hospital environment.
Fri, 07/24/2020 | American Physical Society
Professor Michelle DiBenedetto receives APS’s 2020 Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid DynamicsThe award recognizes "exceptional young scientists who have performed original doctoral thesis work of outstanding scientific quality and achievement in the area of fluid dynamics."
Wed, 07/15/2020 | UW News
A GoPro for beetles: Researchers create a robotic camera backpack for insectsA UW team has developed a tiny wireless steerable camera small enough to ride aboard an insect.
Mon, 07/13/2020 | UW News
Laurel Morgan Miller Marsh awarded Fulbright ScholarshipME graduate student Laurel Morgan Miller Marsh has been awarded a Fulbright to conduct research in Germany. Marsh's dissertation work focuses on flow-diverting stents and their use to treat cerebral aneurysms.
Thu, 07/09/2020
UW leading effort to map northwest’s robotics training resources
As part of a major project by the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute, the University of Washington is leading a canvassing effort to identify all of the potential training resources in advanced robotics for manufacturing across five states: Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho and Alaska.
Mon, 07/06/2020
'Acoustic tweezers' may offer noninvasive solution to kidney stones and other medical applications
In a new paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of UW researchers describe a method for using ultrasound to noninvasively control a solid object within a living body.
Thu, 06/18/2020 | UW Alumni Association
Naresh Goyal’s passion for education
The Goyal Family Endowed Scholarship honors the legacy of Naresh "Nick" Goyal (BSME, '72) and offers students the same opportunity Naresh had – to pursue an engineering degree and gain an education that will last a lifetime.
Mon, 06/08/2020
Together we willFabrication engineers help meet the need for medical supplies due to COVID-19.
Thu, 05/28/2020
CREATE for accessibilityThe new UW CREATE center is led by an interdisciplinary team whose mission is to make technology accessible and to make the world accessible through technology.
Mon, 05/11/2020 | UW Mechanical Engineering
Hearts in space
Mechanical engineering professor Nathan Sniadecki explains the research benefits of organ and tissue chips and why some — like the heart tissue chips developed in his lab — are sent into space.
Tue, 05/05/2020
Two ME students in the 2020 Husky 100
ME Seattle students Alyssa Spomer and Behnoosh Parsa are among the 100 University of Washington students named to the 2020 Husky 100 cohort, an honor given to just 100 students across all UW's degree programs and 3 campuses annually.
Wed, 04/29/2020 | UW News
Solar researchers across country join forces with industry to boost U.S. solar manufacturingA new coalition called the U.S. Manufacturing of Advanced Perovskites Consortium, or US-MAP, aims to accelerate the domestic commercialization of perovskite technologies.