June 1, 2016
UW EE Students Make Sweet 16 Round at UWBPC
Written by Tommy Merth and Carley Rich, UW EE Undergraduate Student Employees, Public Relations team Congratulations to Di Sun and Shane Colburn and their teams for making the Sweet 16 round at the UW Business Plan Competition (UWBPC). While the UWBPC is geared toward entrepreneur majors, students from the Electrical Engineering department have always played…
UW EE Co-Authored Research Discovers Nature’s Most Efficient Proton Conductor
Sharks and rays have long been known for their ability to sense the very weak electric fields produced by their prey and other animals in the ocean. A new study published May 13 in Science Advances offers a leap forward in understanding how sharks and their kin do this — and also reveals the discovery…
May 16, 2016
Measuring Lung Function Over the Phone with SpiroCall
For individuals who manage chronic lung disease, it’s vitally important to be able to easily obtain accurate data to measure their lung function. Now, patients can do just that by simply picking up any phone anywhere in the world — thanks to a tool called SpiroCall. Developed by a team of researchers lead by Shwetak Patel,…
April 27, 2016
UW EE Hosts Alumni Breakfast for UW Discovery Days
The UW EE Community celebrated our alums this weekend at Discovery Days on Saturday, April 23, 2016. Engineering Discovery Days is a two-day event sponsored by the College of Engineering allowing students and faculty from all UW Engineering departments to share their work with students and teachers from area schools, families and the community. We…
Student Success: Ph.D. Student Utku Baran Receives College of Engineering Student Award for Research
With more than a dozen first-authored papers and three patents to his name in just three years of Ph.D. studies, EE student Utku Baran has received the College of Engineering Student Award for Research. “I’m very happy to represent EE in the College of Engineering awards,” said Baran. He will receive the award at the…
April 20, 2016
Student Success: Conner Ballew Admitted to Caltech Ph.D. Program
Conner Ballew, who graduates this spring with his master’s degree, has been admitted to Caltech’s Electrical Engineering Ph.D. Program, where he plans to research biophotonics and biomedical imaging. Ballew will be working with faculty advisor Lihong Wang, whose lab pioneered photoacoustic tomography (PAT), which is a medical imaging technique that combines both light and sound…
April 15, 2016
Eli Shlizerman Models Monarch Butterfly’s Internal Compass
The secret ways of the migratory monarch butterfly are not so secret anymore, thanks to a research team that includes assistant professor Eli Shlizerman, who has joint appointments in the Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics departments. The researchers have uncovered how exactly monarch butterflies process information about the time of day and the sun’s position…
April 14, 2016
Ulrich Hetmaniuk Appointed Co-Director of NIAC
Adjunct Professor Ulrich Hetmaniuk, who is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics, has been appointed co-director of theNorthwest 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…
April 13, 2016
Mani Venkata Honored with Outstanding Leadership and Service Award
Affiliate Professor S.S. (Mani) Venkata has been honored with a 2016 Robert M. Janowiak Outstanding Leadership and Service Award. The award is given to individuals with a record of leadership and service to the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association (ECEDHA) and to electrical and computer engineering. Venkata accepted the award at the ECEDHA…
April 12, 2016
BioRobotics Lab Deep Brain Stimulation Research Featured by Medtronic
Jeffrey Herron Howard Chizeck The work of EE Ph.D. student Jeffrey Herron and Professor Howard Chizeck, in UW EE’s BioRobotics Lab, is featured in a new video and article by Medtronic, which is funding the groundbreaking research to improve treatment for neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor. The research specifically entails developing…
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