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Spring 2025 ME newsletter
Learn about mechanical engineers in sustainability, a new graduate certificate and other recent news.
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ALUMNI CONNECTIONS
Stay connected
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.
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.
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.
HUSKY EXPERIENCE
Capstone creations
Students displayed innovative capstone design projects at the 2025 expo.
DEPARTMENT SPOTLIGHT
Mehmet Kurt
Associate Professor,
Mechanical Engineering
As director of Kurtlab, Mehmet Kurt's research is focused on biological and biomedical challenges, particularly in the areas of brain biomechanics, neuromechanics imaging, nonlinear systems and smart biomedical devices. Kurt's projects include investigating the nonlinear dynamics of the human brain during head impacts, studying aneurysm stability through aneurysm wall motion imaging and measuring brain tissue stiffness in vivo through ultra-high resolution magnetic resonance elastography.
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