February 5, 2011

Researchers Hope Sharing Costs Will Spur Optical Chips


February 4, 2011

UW, Backed by Intel and U.S. Military, Sets Up Center to Merge Electronics, Photonics


February 3, 2011

New center aims to dramatically lower barrier to making silicon photonic chips


February 2, 2011

Jandhyala to Chair Panel on “Cloud Computing for Electronic Co-Design: Challenges and Opportunities”

Professor Vikram Jandhyala will chair a panel on “Cloud Computing for Electronic Co-Design: Challenges and Opportunities” at DesignCon 2011 being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA between January 31 to February 3, 2011. This panel brings together experts from Texas Instruments, IBM, Cadence, Synopsys, Amazon Web Services, and Physware who will…


February 1, 2011

Alumnus Pamela Bhatti Receives the NSF CAREER Award

UW EE Alumnus Pamela Bhatti received the NSF CAREER Award to develop a MEMS-based biomimetic angular rotation sensor and vestibular prosthesis. Bhatti received her MS degree from the EE department in 1993 (Biorobotics Lab). After gaining some experience working in industry, she later obtained her PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Bhatti has…


January 9, 2011

Encouraging Women in Industry to Apply for Faculty Jobs


January 8, 2011

Hacking Kinect for Robotic Surgery

Students from EE’s Biorobotics Lab have adapted Microsoft’s Kinect gaming system for robotic surgery research. Visiting graduate student Fredrik Ryden has been working with Professors Howard Chizeck and Blake Hannaford on this project. The original video demonstrating the haptics-Kinect work was posted on YouTube last December and has received nearly 27,000 hits. Since then the…


January 7, 2011

Two More EE Students Awarded Mary Gates Scholarships

Congratulations to Gen Vigil and Ryan Charrier who have received Mary Gates Scholarships for 2010-2011! EE undergraduate student Elliot Saba also received the scholarship award as well. Vigil was awarded the Mary Gates Research Scholarship, and her faculty advisor is Professor Karl Böhringer. She has helped design, build and test a low-cost, point-of-care microfluidic device…


January 6, 2011

Encouraging women scientists in industry, government to enter academia


January 5, 2011

Patel’s Energy Work Noted in PCAST Report to White House

The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released and presented its report entitled “Designing a Digital Future for the White House and Congress:  Federally Funded Research and Development in Networking and Information Technology” to the White House and Congress. The report includes work from Assistant Professor Shwetak Patel’s research group on energy and water…



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