Alum Milton Zeutschel Honored with Diamond Award

May 4, 2015

Alum Milton Zeutschel Honored with Diamond Award

Update: View award ceremony photos here. For Milton Zeutschel, BSEE ’60, growing up on a farm in North Dakota, where he routinely fixed anything that broke, led him to become a successful entrepreneur. “If anything went wrong, we had to figure out how to fix it,” Zeutschel said. “Starting my own businesses, I was also…

May 3, 2015

‘Making dumb things smart’

May 2, 2015

UW Engineers Take First Place in Hack the Commute

The hard work of UW engineering students will make life easier for a certain group of people: those traveling in wheelchairs or on crutches. Comprised of four students, including UW EE Ph.D. student Nick Bolten, team Hackcessible won first place at the civic Hack the Commute competition for their app that plans travel routes for…

May 1, 2015

William Hwang Honored with Dean’s Medal

Undergraduate William Hwang’s four-page curriculum vitae just got longer. The senior, who has impressed faculty with his ability to excel at graduate level research, among other talents, has received the 2015 College of Engineering Dean’s Medal for Academic Excellence. “I am very honored and humbled to be selected for this prestigious award,” Hwang said. Each…

April 12, 2015

The First to Hack a Teleoperated Surgical Robot, UW EE Researchers Prove Security Risks Exist

A teleoperated surgical robot has been hacked for the first time— by a team of UW researchers with good intentions. The researchers, including several Electrical Engineering graduate students in the BioRobotics Lab, demonstrate how these robots are vulnerable to cyber attacks when used in remote settings. Their research, described in a recently publishedArXiv paper, comes…

April 11, 2015