October 4, 2015
Future Women Engineers Celebrate Ada Lovelace Day
October 3, 2015
Memorial Scholarship Honors Alum Stephanie Subak
In honor of UW EE alum Stephanie Subak, who was an inspiration to students and an advocate for women in the electrical engineering field, Subak’s employer for more than 34 years, Fluke Corporation, has established the Stephanie Subak Memorial Scholarship. Subak, 58, passed away while doing what she loved—frequenting the outdoors. An avid outdoorswoman, Subak…
October 2, 2015
UW EE Alum Biswanath Mukherjee is a Highly Cited Researcher
UW EE alum Professor Biswanath Mukherjee (Ph.D. ’87) is listed as a highly cited researcher by Thomson Reuters in a report titled “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds.” After completing his Ph.D. at UW EE, Mukherjee joined the University of California, Davis, College of Engineering. Mukherjee served as chair of the Department of Computer Science…
SNUPI Start-up Sells WallyHome Sensor Technology to Sears
SNUPI Technologies, a start-up cofounded by UW EE and CSE Professors Shwetak Patel and Matt Reynolds, UW EE alum Gabe Cohn (Ph.D. ’14) and CSE alum Jeremy Jaech has sold its WallyHome sensor technology to Sears. SNUPI’s first product, the WallyHome water leak detection system alerts homeowners to problems such as water leaks by monitoring…
October 1, 2015
UW Ranked #11 in World by U.S. News & World Report
The University of Washington is ranked #11 by U.S. News & World Report for Best Global Universities for 2016. A total of 750 universities were evaluated and ranked based on several factors including reputation across the world and region, research, publications cited and international collaboration. The new ranking comes less than a month after Reuters…
September 12, 2015
Trailblazer for Women in Engineering, Professor Emerita Irene Peden Turns 90
The UW EE community celebrated the 90th birthday of Professor Emerita Irene Peden on Friday, October 2. More than 25 of Peden’s former Ph.D. students, colleagues and friends gathered to celebrate not only Peden’s birthday, but the culmination of a successful fundraising campaign to establish an endowed fellowship for electrical engineering women in Peden’s honor. “What…
September 10, 2015
Eve Riskin Featured in Closing the Gender Gap Video
Professor Eve Riskin, who was the fourth woman hired by UW EE, is featured in a new video about closing the gender gap in engineering. Together with colleague Joyce Yen, Riskin created the Leadership Excellence for Academic Diversity (LEAD) workshops, which provide information to leaders in academia about how to recruit more women. The video…
September 9, 2015
Denise Wilson Receives NSF Grant to Research Student Engagement
Professor Denise Wilson has received an NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) grant to research student engagement in the classroom. As previous research indicates there is no one formula that instructors can use to engage all types of students in all types of classes, the research intends to uncover small changes that faculty can incorporate…
September 8, 2015
Mani Venkata Honored with IEEE Power & Energy Society Award
S.S. (Mani) Venkata, a former UW EE professor, has been honored with the IEEE Power & Energy Society Douglas M. Staszesky Distribution Automation Award. The award recognizes Venkata’s contributions to the automation of electric utility distribution systems, which carry electricity from transmission systems to individual consumers. The award includes a scholarship to a school of…
September 7, 2015
Professor Denise Wilson Uncovers Arsenic in U.S. Red Wines
Testing a total of 65 wines from the top four states that produce wine in the U.S., including Washington, Professor Denise Wilson found that all wine samples contained concerning levels of arsenic. The wine samples averaged 24 parts per billion while the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulated arsenic level for drinking water allows no more than…
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