News
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.
Fri, 04/24/2020 | UW Mechanical Engineering
Waste to water
An ME co-founded company addressing chemical cleanup won the 2020 Environmental Innovation Challenge.
Tue, 04/14/2020 | UW News
UW’s 3D printed COVID-19 face shields: From innovation to delivery3D printers across the UW's three campuses were running 24/7 to print face shields for health care workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mon, 04/06/2020 | UW Foster School of Business
ME Team Wins 2020 Environmental Innovation ChallengeAquagga, one of four ME-affiliated teams competing, was named the winner of the $15,000 Grand Prize at the 2020 Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge (EIC).
Tue, 03/10/2020 | UW Medicine
3D beating heart tissue experiment heads to Space StationME professor Nathan Sniadecki and graduate student Ty Higashi are part of a team that's sending beating heart tissue to space to study how microgravity and other physical forces in space exact their effects on heart muscle.
Tue, 03/10/2020
The Women of Fluid MechanicsME graduate student Courtney Otani shares personal stories and practical advice from women in fluid mechanics.
Fri, 03/06/2020 | Foster Blog
Funding Awards Announced for Jones + Foster AcceleratorAeroSpec, led by ME's doctoral candidate Jiayang (Joe) He, will receive up to $25k in funding from the Jones + Foster Accelerator at the UW Foster School of Business.
Thu, 01/23/2020 | Office of Global Affairs
Posner awarded Global Innovation FundCongratulations to Professor Jonathan Posner on being awarded the Global Innovation Fund from the Office of Global Affairs for his cookstove-related BURN injury investigations in Nepal and Ghana (BURNING).
Fri, 01/17/2020 | College of Engineering
ME alumni receive UW Engineering Diamond AwardsCongratulations to ME alumni James Skaggs and Allen Israel for winning the College of Engineering's 2020 Diamond Awards for Distinguished Achievement in Industry and the Dean’s Award, respectively. The 2020 Diamond Awards will be held on Saturday, June 6.
Fri, 12/06/2019 | Society for Experimental Mechanics
Professor Junlan Wang receives the 2020 SEM M.M. Frocht AwardProfessor Junlan Wang receives the 2020 M.M. Frocht Award from the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM), a prestigious award recognizing outstanding achievement as an educator in the field of experimental mechanics.
Thu, 11/14/2019 | NBC News Learn
Discovering You - Kat Steele
Associate prof Kat Steele and her team's work to help kids move better was featured in an episode of NBC News Learn!
Tue, 10/22/2019 | College of Engineering
Making Medicine AccessibleMedsForAll, an Engineering Innovation in Health project-turned-startup, is developing an affordable alternative to the EpiPen.
Mon, 10/07/2019
Welcome new facultyJoin us in welcoming new faculty to the ME department and congratulating current faculty on recent promotions.
Thu, 10/03/2019 | CoMotion Blog
Seibel spotlighted on CoMotion blogRead about Research Professor Eric Seibel's numerous innovations on CoMotion's blog series, “UW Researcher Spotlight.”