Autumn 2025 ME newsletter
Learn about tissue regeneration, faster cancer diagnoses, student team wins and other recent news.
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Jan27Tue
PhD Qualifying Examination: Navneet Kaur
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
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Jan27Tue
ME Seminar: Lin Han, Drexel University
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Interdisciplinary Engineering Building G106
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.
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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