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ALUMNI CONNECTIONS

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Mentoring students, supporting industry collaboration, and being part of the vision to expand UW ME’s facilities are ways alumni help shape the future of the department.

 

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COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION

Translating ideas into impact

The UW is launching hundreds of companies across a wide range of fields. ME is a leading department at the UW for innovation, commercialization and industry collaboration, making up 14% of all UW startups.
 

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HUSKY EXPERIENCE

 Clubs & competitions

Registered student organizations are a way to work on a hands-on project while gaining key skills in leadership, teamwork and time management. Our students build electric vehicles, adapted toys, race cars, robots, submarines and more.

 

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Biomechanics research

A move toward mobility

Undergraduate transfer student Thomas Brown hopes to use his engineering skills to improve mobility aids.

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DEPARTMENT SPOTLIGHT

Eric Seibel

Research Professor,
Mechanical Engineering

As director of the UW Human Photonics Lab, Eric Seibel is a research professor in ME and an adjunct research professor in bioengineering, electrical & computer engineering and oral health sciences. Seibel has co-developed an optical projection tomography microscope and invented the scanning fiber endoscope. The Human Photonics Lab's goals are to advance the frontier of medical devices and optical technologies to enhance human performance, detect diseases and guide treatments.

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Improving cancer diagnoses

A medical device, developed in part by Seibel's lab, provides rapid imaging of biopsies to improve breast cancer diagnoses.

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#1 the UW’s ranking for most innovative public university in the U.S. by Reuters in 2019
2x national average female undergraduates
#3 source of UW startups
923 new patents filed
since 2012
14 affiliated research centers
$13M annual research funding
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