News

Fri, 05/27/2022 | UW News

With EcoCAR, which just wrapped up the last year of its four-year challenge, UW students rebuilt a car and experienced post-COVID camaraderie under the hood of a hybrid vehicle.

Tue, 05/03/2022

Abby Simcox represented the UW in March for College Week 2022 on the word puzzle game show.

Thu, 04/28/2022 | UW NanoES

Congrats to Ayokunle Olanrewaju and Aniruddh Vashisth for receiving Northwest Nanotechnology Infrastructure seed grants from the Institute for Nano-engineered Systems.

Wed, 04/27/2022 | Cision PR Newswire

ME’s Xu Chen has received a 2022 Sandra L. Bouckley Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineers Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).

Fri, 04/22/2022 | UW News

ME’s Aniruddh Vashisth and other UW Engineering researchers discuss their innovative methods to design and manufacture sustainable electronics.

Tue, 04/19/2022 | The American Society of Mechanical Engineers

The latest issue of ME Magazine features ME Professor Jon Liu and team’s research to improve the diagnosis of prostate cancer.

Mon, 04/18/2022

UW researchers collaborate to investigate and advance nanofoams, a new tiny but mighty material.

Tue, 04/12/2022 | Carnegie Mellon University

UW and Carnegie Mellon researchers use NASA funding to advance foldable structures that fit into a tiny compartment for launch and expand into super-structures in outer space.

Mon, 04/11/2022 | National Science Foundation

ME Assistant Professor Mehmet Kurt has received an NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award for his research on nonlinear resonances of highly damped, soft materials.

Mon, 03/28/2022 | College of Engineering

ME's Brian Polagye and other engineering instructors share what they've discovered from more than a year of remote teaching.

Wed, 03/23/2022 | Newswise

An innovative technique called burst wave lithotripsy developed by researchers, including ME Associate Professor Michael Bailey, may provide an effective, more accessible alternative for noninvasive treatment of kidney stones, according to initial human studies.

Fri, 03/11/2022 | UW News

In a new study, UW researchers have shown that a dental tool they created can measure the acidity built up by the bacteria in plaque that leads to cavities.

Mon, 03/07/2022 | Foster Blog

Congrats to the engineering teams that swept the 2022 Holloman Health Innovation Challenge. ME students were on the teams that won first, second and third place.

Mon, 02/28/2022 | NASA

ME Assistant Professor Jeffrey Lipton and Zac Manchester of Carnegie Mellon have received NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Phase 2 funding to make kilometer-scale space structures from a single launch. The project will utilize materials developed by ME grad student Sawyer Thomas.

Fri, 02/25/2022 | NSF

A National Science Foundation grant will support research by ME Associate Professor Xu Chen to study how to enable engineered systems to rely on and respond to real-time data collected from multiple sources.

Tue, 02/22/2022

What do mechanical engineers do in the world of tech? ME alumni at Microsoft, Amazon and Oracle share their career stories and advice.

Wed, 02/09/2022

The collaboration will focus on advancing innovation in core robotics, and AI technologies and their applications. Professor Ashis Banerjee is part of the joint advisory committee.

Mon, 02/07/2022 | UW Medicine

Researchers at the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine share how they’ve adapted space technology to understand how the heart can be injured by the coronavirus.

Mon, 01/24/2022 | UW Mechanical Engineering

ME Professor Corie L. Cobb, the Washington Research Foundation Innovation Professor in Clean Energy, has been selected as recipient of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Director’s Fellowship Award.

Thu, 01/20/2022

With research aiming to increase access to critical cancer detection technology, ME graduate students Andrew Lewis and Chen Gong won the Best Paper Award at the 2021 International Symposium on Medical Robotics.

Thu, 01/13/2022

From student to teacher to researcher and intern, Shayla Payne shares the path that has led her toward a career in engineering for human health.

Tue, 01/11/2022 | National Science Foundation

A new NSF grant supports UW planning for an Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) on Data-driven High-rate Composites Manufacturing to partner with industry on high-performance, lightweight materials.

Mon, 01/03/2022 | NanoES

With new funding from NSF, a UW research team aims to develop a dramatically smaller endoscope to image previously inaccessible areas of the heart and brain.

Thu, 12/09/2021

The ME department welcomes new faculty members for the 2021–2022 school year.

Thu, 12/09/2021 | UW News

A team led by the UW has developed a new, non-destructive method that images entire 3D biopsies instead of a slice for determining prostate cancer aggressiveness. The 3D images provided more information than a 2D image — specifically, details about the tree-like structure of the glands throughout the tissue.