Encouraging Women in Industry to Apply for Faculty Jobs

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…

January 4, 2011

Microsoft’s Craig Mundie Demos Haptics-Kinect Work from Biorobotics Lab

During a presentation last week at the Cleveland Clinic, Microsoft’s Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Craig Mundie spoke about the evolution of computing, which included a discussion about the haptics-Kinect work being done in the UW EE’s Biorobotics Lab. Visiting graduate student Fredrik Ryden has been working with Professors Howard Chizeck and Blake Hannaford on…

January 3, 2011

Chizeck Elected to AIMBE’s College of Fellows

Professor Howard Jay Chizeck has been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering’s (AIMBE) College of Fellows for 2011. Chizeck was elected for his “contributions to the use of control system theory in functional electrical stimulation assisted walking.” The AIMBE consists of 1,000 individuals who are the outstanding bioengineers in academia, industry…

January 2, 2011