November 5, 2013

UW EE’s Raven Robot Makes its Big Screen Debut in ‘Ender’s Game’

The Raven II robot of UW EE’s BioRobotics Lab has been in the spotlight on many occasions, from fulfilling an 11 year old’s wish experience through the Make-a-Wish Foundation, to becoming the first open-source platform for surgical robotics research for seven universities across the country. But Hollywood? The surgical robot makes its big screen debut…


November 4, 2013

Meet the real-life robo-surgeon who fixes brains in ‘Ender’s Game’


November 3, 2013

Graduate Student Jessica Tran Selected to Attend the 2013 Rising Stars in EECS

Jessica J. Tran was selected to attend the 2013 Rising Stars in EECS: An Academic Career Workshop for Women at MIT. This workshop will bring together roughly 40 top EECS graduate and postdoctoral women interested in academia. Her research interests are in digital signal processing-video compression and Human Computer Interaction. She is advised by Professor…


November 2, 2013

Seattle Children’s developing cochlear implant to hear music


November 1, 2013

UWEE Undergrads Win 2013-2014 IEEE Power & Energy Society Scholarships

Seven UW EE undergraduates have again been selected to receive scholarships awarded in the amount of $2,000 from the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES). These scholarships recognize undergraduate students who have declared a major in electrical engineering, are high achievers with strong GPAs and distinctive extracurricular commitments, and are committed to exploring the power…


October 8, 2013

New UW-Pacific NW National Lab computing-research institute holds first public workshop


October 7, 2013

UW EE and Agilent Partner to Build Embedded Systems Teaching Laboratories

In today’s sophisticated and complex embedded systems, the sheer nature and quantity of signals that must be recognized and understood frequently challenges the equipment used to measure them. UW EE and Agilent Technologies Inc. are partnering to build a state-of-the-art facility for electrical engineering students which will incorporate all of the industry’s latest cutting-edge electronic…


October 6, 2013

Stephen Boyd: Making the best decisions in smart systems, products


October 5, 2013

UW EE Receives Funding from SRC’s New Semiconductor Synthetic Biology Program

The Klavins Lab has received a $375K grant from the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) as part of the new Semiconductor Synthetic Biology program (SSB). The UW is one of six universities to be initially funded for their research; MIT, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Yale, Georgia Tech, and Brigham Young will also each receive funding during…


October 4, 2013

Music to One’s Ears

Signal Processing Improvements in Cochlear Implants Help Users Hear Music Better UW EE professor Les Atlas, professor Jay Rubinstein of otolaryngology and bioengineering, and members of their labs have developed a technique that lets cochlear implant users perceive differences between musical instruments. This is a significant improvement from what standard cochlear implants can offer to…



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