July 22, 2020
A GoPro for beetles: Researchers create a robotic camera backpack for insects
Story by Sarah McQuate | UW News In the movie “Ant-Man,” the title character can shrink in size and travel by soaring on the back of an insect. Now researchers at the University of Washington have developed a tiny wireless steerable camera that can also ride aboard an insect, giving everyone a chance to see…
July 15, 2020
Alaska Airlines adopts software tool developed by UW ECE undergraduate students
Story by Wayne Gillam | UW ECE News When stepping into an airplane to go on vacation, visit a loved one or take a business trip, most people don’t think much, if at all, about the mechanics involved with keeping the plane running smoothly. However, what’s “under the hood” is crucial to getting people where…
July 13, 2020
UW ECE student Zheyi Han creates miniturized optical systems for 3D imaging and biomedical diagnostics
Interview by Renske Dyedov, originally published on Washington Nanofabrication Facility’s User Spotlight feature section. University of Washington Electrical & Computer Engineering (UW ECE) Ph.D. candidate Zheyi Han has been a part of the Washington Nanofabrication Facility (WNF) community as both a student worker and as a graduate research assistant for over five years. In this…
July 9, 2020
Forward with Society of Women Engineers at UW (SWE)
When Natalie Salazar learned that the UW would be moving spring classes online to align with Washington’s “Stay Home, Stay Healthy” order, she knew that the Society of Women Engineers at UW (SWE)’s plans for the rest of the year would be dramatically impacted. “Our chapter typically hosts coding classes, introduction to engineering workshops and career…
July 7, 2020
UW ECE and CEE students collaborate on remote-controlled sensing vehicle for WSDOT
Students embrace twice the problem-solving For a highly collaborative capstone project that entails developing a remote-controlled sensing vehicle, moving the course online due to COVID-19 meant twice the opportunity to utilize problem-solving skills. “The pandemic is a great opportunity to do things differently – challenge conventional approaches, use technology more and be more connected even…
July 2, 2020
A professor’s long career and vision for the future leaves an ongoing legacy
Story by Wayne Gillam | UW ECE News On June 6, 2020, University of Washington Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (UW ECE) Professor Emeritus Robert (Bob) Albrecht passed away at his Seattle home from complications arising from inclusion body myositis. He was 85 years old. Albrecht joined the UW in 1961, as a professor…
June 26, 2020
UW students thrive online, engineering devices to assist people with disabilities
Story by Wayne Gillam | UW ECE News When the University of Washington (UW) moved all courses online last quarter in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, instructors across campus were faced with an immediate challenge — how to quickly re-purpose lectures, lessons and experiences designed for in-person classes into something that would work well…
June 24, 2020
ENGINE Showcase’s Top 3 winning teams announced!
CONGRATULATIONS to the 2020 ENGINE Showcase’s Top 3 winning teams of RealWear, the UW College of Engineering, and Microsoft! The UW Electrical & Computer Engineering’s ENGineering INnovation and Entrepreneurship (ENGINE) capstone program is the culmination of a student’s electrical and computer engineering education. The ENGINE program was created to enable students to work in teams…
June 22, 2020
WiBotic raises $5.7M to boost wireless systems for charging up robots and drones
Seattle-based Wibotic says it’s secured $5.7 million in fresh investment to ramp up development of its wireless charging and power optimization systems, five years after being spun out from the University of Washington. “We’re heading into our toddler phase here,” WiBotic CEO Ben Waters joked during an interview with GeekWire. Investors in the Series A funding round…
June 17, 2020
Teaching Computers to Recognize Human Actions in Videos
Identifying various movements and actions that people make with their bodies just from watching a video is generally considered to be a natural, simple task. For example, most people would easily be able to identify a subject in a video clip as, say, “jumping back and forth,” or “hitting a ball with their foot.” These…
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