15 UW students, alumni selected for Fulbright Scholarships

July 3, 2010

15 UW students, alumni selected for Fulbright Scholarships

July 2, 2010

Frankye Jones named 2010 Distinguished Graduate Program Assistant

Frankye Jones has been awarded the Distinguished Graduate Program Assistant Recipient for 2010 by The UW Graduate School. This award is in its second year, having been established by Vice Provost and Dean Gerald Baldasty in 2009. Nominations for the award are solicited campus-wide from all faculty Graduate Program Coordinators. Professor Bruce Darling nominated Frankye…

July 1, 2010

Ali Al-Awami awarded ‘Best Poster’

At the recent 2010 General Meeting of the IEEE Power and Energy Society in Minneapolis, EE Ph.D. student Ali Al-Awami’s poster presentation “Combining Wind and Thermal Bids in Short-Term Electricity Markets” was selected as “Best Poster”. Professor Mohamed El-Sharkawi, Ali’s Ph.D. advisor, was co-author of the presentation. More information on the meeting can be found…

June 3, 2010

Bowen Cheng awarded ‘Best Paper’

EE Ph.D. student Bowen Cheng has been honored with the “Best Paper of the Symposium” award at the 42nd International Symposium on Microelectronics, held in San Jose, California last year (the award was made this year). His paper, titled “Microspring Characterization and Flip Chip Assembly Reliability”, was chosen out of 150 total candidates. Bowen is…

NASA Talk is High Tech Prescription for Contact Lenses

June 2, 2010

2010 Graduation Ceremony Video

We’ve made the video available in three different sizes. The largest size will require a reasonably fast broadband connection (1.5mbps). To watch any of the videos, you will need either a web browser that can handle HTML5 video (e.g. Google Chrome, Apple’s Safari) or the most recent version of Adobe’s Flash Player with Firefox and…

Erik Josberger receives Astronaut Scholarship

EE undergraduate Erik Josberger has been awarded a $10,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation. The scholarship is for the upcoming 2010-2011 academic year. Recipients are chosen based on their proven ability to perform research and develop ideas, innovation and technology, as well as for their exceptional academic performance. Awards are very competitive – Erik…

June 1, 2010