June 1, 2015

EE Researchers First to Wirelessly Power Devices with Existing Wi-Fi Hardware

A wireless world is getting even closer, thanks to a team of EE and CSE researchers who have harnessed energy from Wi-Fi signals to wirelessly power devices and recharge batteries. Unlike other similar systems that require new hardware, the new system, called power over Wi-Fi, was designed to work with traditional Wi-Fi routers. Led by…


May 13, 2015

UW researchers scaling up fusion hopes with DOE grant


May 12, 2015

UW EcoCAR 3 team to compete on home turf


May 11, 2015

BluHaptics Receives Most Promising Company Award

BluHaptics, a start-up with origins in the UW EE Department, was honored with the Most Promising Company Award at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston on May 4, 2015. BluHaptics is a UW EE and Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) spinoff, founded in 2013 by EE Professor Howard Chizeck, alum Fredrik Ryden (EE Ph.D. ‘13) and…


May 10, 2015

Innovations: Are Potholes a Thing of the Past?


May 9, 2015

In the Fast Lane: EE Students Ready for EcoCAR3 Year 1 Competition

Seattle may not be known for its automobile industry and UW may not even have an official automotive program, but if you step inside the UW EcoCAR3 team lab you may think otherwise. Especially when you hear how well the team performed at their first competition last year. “We did remarkably well last year and…


May 8, 2015

Graduate Student Eldridge Alcantara Receives College of Engineering Award for Teaching

People volunteer for many things, but not usually to teach a core undergraduate class. Unless, of course, you’re EE Ph.D. student Eldridge Alcantara. For volunteering to teach EE 235, a class on continuous time linear systems, Alcantara has been honored with the College of Engineering Graduate Student Award for Teaching. He will receive the award…


May 7, 2015

Graduate Student Receives SPIE Scholarship

Ph.D. student Utku Baran has received a prestigious Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, for his contributions to the field. “I was delighted to receive this award,” Baran said. “It is a great honor in the optics society.” The $3,000 scholarship will be used for education expenses….


May 6, 2015

Deaf Jam: Experiencing Music Through A Cochlear Implant


May 5, 2015

UW researchers hack a teleoperated surgical robot to reveal security flaws



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