News

Mon, 04/15/2024

ME students, alums and faculty share how clubs can lead to successful careers.

Mon, 04/01/2024

Students were recognized for their research that aims to improve robotics, batteries, disease diagnoses and more.

Mon, 03/18/2024 | UW College of Engineering

COE researchers are advancing electric vehicle innovation, including ME Assistant Professor Shijing Sun and ME Professor Corie L. Cobb.

Mon, 03/11/2024 | UW Medicine

A clinical trial showed that a medical device developed by ME and UW Medicine rescued people from multiorgan failure. 

Mon, 03/11/2024 | GeekWire

Two teams with ME students won Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge awards.

Thu, 02/29/2024 | Kitsap Sun | USA TODAY Network

ME student Merrill Keating was named USA Today's Washington state Woman of the Year for 2024.

Mon, 02/26/2024

Research shows the importance of accessible environments for children using assistive technologies.

Fri, 02/16/2024

Join us in welcoming John Palmore Jr. and Renee Desing as new faculty to the ME department this school year.

Wed, 02/14/2024 | UW News

UW researchers, including ME and ISE Associate Professor Ashis Banerjee, have developed a method that teaches a low-cost robot to identify objects on a cluttered shelf.

Mon, 02/12/2024

Researchers, co-led by ME Assistant Professor Mohammad Malakooti, are creating a device that harvests heartbeat energy to extend battery life in pacemakers.

Wed, 01/24/2024

ME researchers will work on projects funded by the U.S. Department of Energy that could improve the manufacturing of composites and electric vehicle batteries.

Mon, 01/22/2024

ME students and faculty partner with UW Medicine to create devices that can treat multi-organ failure and improve catheter safety.

Tue, 12/19/2023 | UW Institute for Nano-Engineered Systems

Assistant Professor Lucas Meza and Professor Vipin Kumar co-teach community college students in an intensive summer program.

Mon, 12/11/2023 | Forbes

Brian Pinkard (ME Ph.D. '20), Aquagga co-founder and CTO, was included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 North America list.

Mon, 12/11/2023

A team is testing new methods to assess the potential impacts of tidal turbines on marine mammals.

Thu, 12/07/2023 | UW Population Health Initiative

Research co-led by Associate Professor Mehmet Kurt will develop machine learning strategies to improve glioblastoma segmentation in the Sub-Saharan Africa patient population.

Thu, 12/07/2023 | The Washington Post

ME and Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine Assistant Professor Feini (Sylvia) Qu commented on the recent study.

Mon, 12/04/2023

The ME External Advisory Board visited with alumni and strengthened industry connections at Blue Origin’s Orbital Launch Site and the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Mon, 11/27/2023 | UW CoMotion

ME Research Professor Eric Seibel’s team completed a successful first clinical trial of ThermoTape. The project has received the prestigious CoMotion-Murdock Trust Commercialization Initiation Award.

Mon, 11/20/2023 | American Heart Association

The study involved ME Assistant Professor Mohammad Malakooti, UW Medicine and BioE.

Mon, 11/13/2023

The grant was awarded to Assistant Professor Mohammad Malakooti and Assistant Professor Krithika Manohar.

Mon, 11/06/2023 | UW College of Engineering

ME student Sebastian Bustos-Nuno shares his summer research experiences at the UW Clean Energy Institute’s Washington Clean Energy Testbeds, where he was mentored by Ph.D. student Ethan Schwartz.

Mon, 11/06/2023

Two alums with service experience share ME’s role in their career journeys.

Mon, 10/16/2023 | The American Society of Mechanical Engineers

ME researchers designed, tested and recommended strategies that successfully reduced the noise caused by floating bridge expansion joints.

Mon, 10/16/2023 | University of Washington

ME graduate Raymond Haug was caught in a cycle of addiction, homelessness and prison before he transformed his life and found a calling.