Device to Measure Energy Use

October 4, 2011

Device to Measure Energy Use

October 3, 2011

Raven Part of Unimate 50th Anniversary Celebration

The Raven surgical robot, developed in UWEE’s Biorobotics Lab, was recognized by the IEEE’s International conference on Robotics and Systems (IROS) in San Francisco last month. The conference logo lists Raven among the famous robots celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first real robot Unimate which was invented by George Devol and Joseph Engleberger in…

October 2, 2011

Genesis of a Genius

Kirschen Awarded 1.4M DoE Grant

Professor Daniel Kirschen has been awarded a 1.4 million dollar grant from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), Green Electricity Network Integration (GENI) for a project entitled “Energy Positioning: Control and Economics.” He will be carrying out this project in collaboration with Professor Ian Hiskens of the University of Michigan. Congratulations Professor…

October 1, 2011

New leader for electrical engineering

September 7, 2011

Shwetak Patel Honored With MacArthur “Genius” Grant

EE and CSE Professor Shwetak Patel is one of 22 honorees named as a 2011 MacArthur Fellow today. The five-year, $500,000 grant was awarded for “inventing low-cost, easy-to-deploy sensor systems that leverage existing infrastructures to enable users to track household energy consumption and to make the buildings we live in more responsive to our needs.”…

September 6, 2011