October 3, 2010

Will a Flood of Tiny Sensors Help Us Cut Emissions?


October 2, 2010

Hand With a Sixth Sense


September 12, 2010

Böhringer, Ritcey named 2011 IEEE Fellows

       Professors Jim Ritcey and Karl Böhringer have been named IEEE Fellows effective January 1, 2011. Karl’s citation is “for contributions to microelectromechanical systems, parallel and distributed robotic manipulation, and self-assembly”, while Jim’s reads “for contributions to bit-interleaved coded modulation with iterative decoding”. The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the IEEE…


September 10, 2010

Professor Jandhyala Named an Inaugural Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellow

Congratulations to Professor Vikram Jandhyala for being selected by the UW Center for Commercialization to receive the inaugural Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellow. Candidates for this honor were nominated by department chairs and C4C technology managers.  Interim President Phyllis Wise established the Provost’s UW Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellows Program in recognition of the value that UW faculty entrepreneurship…


September 7, 2010

College of Engineering putting diversity front and center


September 6, 2010

A Riveting Puzzle Full of Whimsy (and “Whimsies”)


September 5, 2010

Shwetak Patel receives Top Innovator Award

Professor Shwetak Patel has been honored by Seattle Business magazine with a 2010 Top Innovator award. He also will be featured on the cover of the soon-to-be released November issue and on seattlebusinessmag.com. The award ceremony was held on October 21 at Seattle’s Hard Rock Cafe. Congratulations Shwetak!


September 4, 2010

2010 Outstanding Paper awarded to Kaibao Nie

EE Adjunct Professor Kaibao Nie was lead author on the paper recently selected by IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering to receive its 2010 Outstanding Paper award. The paper, “Encoding frequency modulation to improve cochlear implant performance in noise”, was authored by Nie, Ginger Stickney, and Fan-Gang Zeng. The award was presented at the 32nd Annual…


September 3, 2010

Nichols’ Poster Takes Second at OCEANS 2010

EE graduate student Nicole Nichol’s poster “Call and Component Evaluation for Improved Performance of Recognition of Killer Whale Individuals” tied for second place in the Student Poster Program held as part of the 2010 IEEE OCEANS conference, held in September at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle. Fifty eight poster abstracts were…


September 2, 2010

Students’ Article Featured on Cover of Nanotechnology

The September 2010 issue of the journal Nanotechnology featured an article by UW EE students Ehsan Saeedi, Christian Marcheselli, and Angela Shum – plus their article was featured on the cover! The article, “Inertially assisted nanoscale self-assembly”, appears in Nanotechnology Volume 21, Number 37. These students work with Professor Babak Parviz in the Bionanotechnology Lab….



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