April 2, 2013

Student Professional Awareness Conference (SPAC) 2013

The University of Washington IEEE student branch hosted their annual Student Professional Awareness Conference (SPAC) on Monday, April 15th. This event provided companies with an opportunity to network with a variety of electrical engineering students while enjoying a catered dinner. In all, 23 members of industry and over 85 EE students participated in the event….


April 1, 2013

Ted Kummert (BSEE ’85) To Give UW EE’s 2013 Graduation Speech

This year’s electrical engineering graduates will mark the occasion with a ceremony on Friday, June 14 in Kane Hall 130 that includes remarks by distinguished EE alum, Ted Kummert. After more than two decades at Microsoft, Ted is well-qualified to share a challenge to graduates as they leave the UW and pursue positions in the corporate…


March 5, 2013

2013 EEIC Poster Contest Winners

        The Electric Energy Industrial Consortium (EEIC) held its annual poster contest where undergraduate and graduate students had the opportunity to present their research projects to EEIC member companies. The contest was held on April 4, 2013 in the Paul Allen Center (CSE) Atrium, and awards were given in each of the three…


March 4, 2013

UW EE at the 2013 IEEE RFID Conference

Congratulations to all of the UW EE authors for being nominated for a best paper award at the 7th Annual IEEE International Conference on RFID. In all, three of the five best paper award candidates went to papers with UW EE and CSE affiliation. This year’s conference keynote speaker is also UW EE faculty member,…


March 3, 2013

Shwetak Patel Receives 2013 NSF CAREER Award

The National Science Foundation has given a 2013 CAREER Award to EE/CSE Assistant Professor Shwetak Patel. His proposal is titled “New Systems and Tools for Residential Sustainability Sensing”. From the proposal: “The goal of this multi-year research project is to democratize sensing for sustainability by developing a complete electricity and water sensing and analytics platform…


March 2, 2013

Huang and Sanehira Receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Congratulations to Kevin Huang and Erin Sanehira who have been named winners of the 2013 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Award! These prestigious awards from the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) provide three years of support including an annual stipend, cost-of-education allowance, an international travel allowance, and TeraGrid supercomputer access. More details about the…


March 1, 2013

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February 5, 2013

UW EE and Agilent Technologies Collaborate on New High-Tech RF and Microwave Teaching Laboratory

The UW Electrical Engineering Department is pleased to announce the opening of the new Agilent Technologies RF Laboratory. This new teaching lab was made possible through generous in-kind support from Agilent Technologies. Agilent provided deep discounts on state-of-the-art hardware and software for the lab, which will support the department’s curriculum in electromagnetics and wireless technologies….


February 4, 2013

Agilent Technologies and University of Washington Collaborate to Build High-Tech RF and Microwave Teaching Laboratory


February 3, 2013

Jessica Tran Receives American Sign Language Project Scholarship

EE graduate student Jessica J. Tran has won an American Sign Language Project scholarship for her dissertation research titled, “Human-Centered Optimization of Mobile Sign Language Video Communication.” She is advised by Professor Eve A. Riskin (EE), Professor Richard E. Ladner, and Associate Professor Jacob O. Wobbrock (iSchool). Jessica’s research contributes to an ongoing research project…



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