UW EE to Demo SERS Team Project at SmartAmerica Expo

August 5, 2014

UW EE to Demo SERS Team Project at SmartAmerica Expo

Members of the UW EE department and UW startup BluHaptics, along with other members of the Smart Emergency Response Systems (SERS) team will demonstrate their technology at the SmartAmerica Expo in Washington, D.C. on June 11. This is part of the SmartAmerica Challenge. The SERS team conducted a trial run of the technologies that they…

August 4, 2014

Rudell Receives NSF Funding to Advance Work on Broadband Radio Transceivers

UW EE Assistant Professor Chris Rudell, and Professor R. Gharpurey of the University of Texas, have received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation. The goal of this research is to minimize hardware overhead and complexity by exploring circuits and architectures for frequency-agile broadband radio transceivers, including half and full-duplex radio systems. Research efforts…

August 3, 2014

Chizeck, Bonaci, Calo Win Best Paper Award at IEEE Ethics 2014

Congratulations to Professor Howard Chizeck, EE graduate student Tamara Bonaci and Assistant Professor Ryan Calo of the UW School of Law for receiving the best paper award at the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science, and Technology. This year’s conference was the first of its kind, and was held on May 23-24th in…

August 2, 2014

Mentor Graphics Acquires Nimbic, Inc.

Mentor Graphics Corp. has announced that it has acquired Nimbic, Inc., a leading provider of Maxwell-accurate, 3D full-wave electromagnetic simulation solutions. Nimbic was founded in 2006 (as Physware) by Professor Vikram Jandhyala, with a founding tech team that included ACE Lab and UW EE alumni Dr. Dipanjan Gope, Dr. Swagato Chakraborty, Dr. James Pingenot, and…

August 1, 2014

EE Professional Master’s Program

A Look into EE 547: Linear Systems Theory Course During the winter quarter 2014, UW EE’s Professional Masters Program (PMP) offered a challenging course in Linear Systems Theory taught by Research Associate Professor Linda Bushnell. “The unique aspect of this course was introducing a hands-on hardware platform in the lab for a traditionally very theoretical…

July 6, 2014

UW Engineers Gear Up for SmartAmerica Challenge

July 5, 2014

SNUPI named “Technology Alliance Innovation Showcase Company of the Year”

SNUPI Technologies has been named the Technology Alliance Innovation Showcase Company of the Year. The startup was co-founded by UWEE’s Professor Shwetak Patel, Professor Matt Reynolds, grad student Gabe Cohn, and CSE’s Jeremy Jaech. The company has been in the news in recent months, having raised $7.5 million dollars to commercialize its first product, WallyHome….

July 4, 2014