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
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
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