News

Fri, 03/10/2023 | University of Washington Magazine
ME student soars
After addiction and prison, Raymond Haug transformed his life and found a calling in mechanical engineering.

Thu, 03/09/2023
Michelle DiBenedetto receives NSF CAREER Award
The ME assistant professor received the award to support her research about the fluid dynamics of microplastics at the ocean surface.

Wed, 03/08/2023 | UW ECE News
IV fluid monitor developed
An EIH project that involved ME students and faculty engineered a low-cost, accessible and highly accurate IV fluid monitor.

Wed, 03/08/2023 | UW Foster Blog
ME wins big at 2023 Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge
Learn about the winning student teams, including second-place ME team AMOR (Advanced Multi-Organ Regeneration).

Wed, 03/08/2023 | GeekWire
ME teams win awards at health competition
A GeekWire story about the 2023 Hollomon Health Innovation Competition mentions winning teams with ME students.

Fri, 03/03/2023 | UW Foster School of Business
ME finalists compete in health innovation competition
At the UW's 2023 Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge, finalist teams that competed included 8 teams with ME students.

Tue, 02/21/2023
Welcome new faculty member
Assistant Professor Jenny Robinson builds tissue models to better understand how cells respond to changing environments.

Mon, 02/13/2023
New course aims to help students succeed as researchers
Graduate students share their research interests and their experience taking ME’s new course “Entering Research.”

Tue, 01/31/2023 | UW Institute for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine
Meet Jenny Robinson
Meet Jenny Robinson, Ph.D., new assistant professor of Orthopedics and Sports Medicine and Mechanical Engineering.

Tue, 01/24/2023 | UW College of Engineering
ME alum receives 2023 Diamond Award
Steve Chisholm (B.S.,'86) received a 2023 Diamond Award from the College of Engineering.

Mon, 01/23/2023
ME research wins Best Paper Award
Ph.D. student Garrett Kelley and Professor Ramulu Mamidala researched the setup for manufacturing 3D-printed parts.

Tue, 01/17/2023
A new sensing system for tiny flying robots
ME researchers created a sensing system that enables 10-mg aerial robots to control their flight.

Thu, 01/12/2023 | The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Researchers destroy "forever chemicals"
Researchers led by Igor Novosselov, ME research associate professor, created a reactor that can break down "forever chemicals" into harmless byproducts.

Thu, 01/12/2023 | Elsevier
New book about foot and ankle biomechanics
ME Affiliate Professor William Ledoux co-edited a recently published book that covers the anatomy, measurement and function of the foot and ankle.

Thu, 12/22/2022 | IEEE Spectrum
Autonomous flight for tiny robots
A team led by ME Assistant Professor Sawyer Fuller has put together the necessary sensing hardware to enable stable, autonomous flight for tiny robots.

Thu, 12/22/2022 | Springer Nature
Fruit-fly inspired robots hold steady
ME researchers created a sensing system that can help stabilize tiny flying devices.

Thu, 12/22/2022 | The National Digest
The benefits of automation
ME and ISE Associate Professor Ashis Banerjee shares how automation can help forecast supply chain movement and improve workplace health.

Tue, 12/20/2022 | UW College of Engineering
Preparing tomorrow’s clean energy leaders
A story about a multi-disciplinary course that trains students across the scales of clean energy includes ME graduate student Malia Steward.

Tue, 12/20/2022
An empowering education
Ph.D. candidate Malia Steward shares her journey to researching renewable energy and how she’s working to improve solar cell efficiency.

Fri, 12/16/2022 | UW Magazine
EcoCAR competition highlights UW’s ingenuity and compassion
A group of UW students, including ME students, built a car that made it to the finals of the EcoCAR Mobility Challenge last spring.

Mon, 12/05/2022
ME student speaks at STEM-OPS conference
ME student Raymond Haug spoke at a STEM Opportunities in Prison Settings (STEM-OPS) conference.

Mon, 11/14/2022
ME undergrad competes on ‘College Bowl’
Shruthika Kandukuri shares her recent experiences on the television game show.

Wed, 11/09/2022
Shining a light on 3D pathology researchers
Meet three former researchers from the Molecular Biophotonics Laboratory, led by ME Professor Jonathan Liu, who are bringing their skills to unique fields.

Mon, 10/31/2022
Accelerating 3D imaging
This year, the Molecular Biophotonics Lab is scaling up its prostate cancer research to include collaborations with other universities.

Fri, 10/21/2022 | UW Engineering Innovation in Health
Fall 2022 EIH projects announced
The EIH program announced 14 new health innovation projects for fall 2022.