July 26, 2016
WiSE Summer Bridge Students Develop Smart, Stable Walker
Through a collaboration with WiSE (Women in Science and Engineering), two pre-engineering students had the opportunity to develop the Wise Walker, a more stable option for walker users. April Opsvig and Zoe Nelson designed the device over a one-month internship, under the guidance of Research Associate Professor Linda Bushnell. PhD student (and TA on the…
July 15, 2016
Microsoft’s Prestigious Collaborator Award
Electrical engineering professors, Dr. Georg Seelig and Dr. Shwetak Patel, received the Microsoft Research’s 2016 Outstanding Collaborator Award. The award highlights and celebrates the amazing academics who have worked with the company on research initiatives. Since its founding in 1991, Microsoft Research (MSR) is dedicated to a model of open collaboration with academia. For Seelig…
Professors Hack Surgical Robot in Motherboard Special
It began as a surgical device for the military, one that could fit in an armored vehicle in the combat zone. However, the robot – named Raven II – became a strong platform for advancing the software, the control, and network security for medical robotics. Motherboard visited the BioRobotics Lab at the University of Washington, illustrating…
Students Develop a Piano-Playing Robotic Hand
As a part of their Spring 2016 capstone project, electrical engineering students, Yedi Luo, Qing Ran, Huy Nguyen, Yuhao Wang and Jiwei Wang, created a robotic hand that plays the piano through both autonomous and semi-autonomous modes. The modes are two-prong. The robotic hand can play autonomously by reading sheet music via Optical Character Recognition….
Professor Chizeck Weighs in on Police Robots on NPR Special
[July 11, 2016] This past week, the nation experienced deep tremors in the wake of police shootings. After white police officers killed Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, the continued dialogue of racial bias flooded onto the streets in the form protests and marches. On July 7, these protests turned deadly as a gunman killed five…
July 11, 2016
World Record in DNA Storage
Electrical Engineering Assistant Professor George Seelig, along with Luis Ceze, UW’s Torode Family Career Development Professor of computer science and engineering (CSE) and Karin Strauss, a researcher at Microsoft and affiliate professor for the CSE Department, reached a new milestone in the revolutionary process of DNA data storage. The team of researchers encoded and decoded…
July 7, 2016
Students Help Develop Device to Combat Malaria
Mayoore Jaiswal, a doctoral student in the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE), wants to build something that has a positive impact on someone’s life. She has utilized her electrical engineering expertise to help combat malaria, a disease that affects over 200 million people annually. “I wanted to work on a meaningful project,” Jaiswal said. “I…
Adjunct Professor Ulrich Hetmaniuk Appointed NIAC Co-Director
Adjunct Professor Ulrich Hetmaniuk, who is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics, has been appointed co-director of the Northwest Institute for Advanced Computing (NIAC). NIAC was established by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Washington to advance the use of computing in engineering and scientific discovery. “NIAC serves as a…
Students Make Cloud Printing Available to Everyone, on Any Device
Electrical engineering students, Wenlu Chang, Jessica Perng and Wesley Tsai, developed a low-cost, user-friendly solution to cloud printing as a part of their undergraduate capstone project. Their product – the Plugable Cloud Print Device – allows any printer to become a cloud printer at an affordable price. Cloud printing is a relatively new convenience, allowing…
Student, Rahil Jain, Invents Device for Improved Infectious Disease Diagnosis
Electrical engineering PhD student, Rahil Jain, likes to develop instruments that can improve lives. His current project aims to improve the performance of existing rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs), like the flu. This proposal has progressed to the final round of the APF 2016 Student Technology Prize for Primary Healthcare. The grand prize for the competition…
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