News

Wed, 02/10/2021 | UW News
List of 1,000 inspiring Black scientists includes ME's Ayokunle Olanrewaju
Seven University of Washington scientists, including ME Acting Assistant Professor Ayokunle Olanrewaju, are included in Cell Mentor’s list of 1,000 inspiring Black scientists, published in December 2020.

Tue, 01/12/2021
How 2020 Outstanding Engineering Peer Educator Lily Vu supported students during an unprecedented year
Lily Vu, winner of the 2020 Outstanding Engineering Peer Educator Award, describes her experience mentoring this year’s incoming engineers remotely.

Mon, 01/04/2021
UW's marine renewable energy research gets a boost
Two recent funding announcements from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) are good news for UW’s marine renewable energy research.

Thu, 12/17/2020
NIH backs UW effort to RESTRICT the spread of HIV
With new support from NIH, researchers are continuing development on a test designed to combat HIV.

Mon, 12/07/2020 | UW News
The Smellicopter is an obstacle-avoiding drone that uses a live moth antenna to seek out smellsA new bio-hybrid drone uses a moth antenna to autonomously sniff out odors.

Mon, 11/16/2020 | edg3 FUND
Video features ME 'Water Warriors'
A new video from Kitsap Bank's edg3 FUND highlights ME students in the startup Aquagga. Aquagga is a finalist in the 2020 edg3 FUND competition.

Fri, 11/13/2020 | WE-REACH
Chung wins WE-REACH funding for COVID-19 rapid diagnostics
Jae-Hyun Chung is developing a portable COVID-19 test using an innovative nanotube sensor-based technology.

Thu, 11/05/2020
Steve Shen: Journal Editor Extraordinaire
Through a concerted effort over six years, making sometimes difficult decisions, Steve Shen doubled the impact factor of the ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics.

Thu, 09/24/2020
Welcome new faculty
Join us in welcoming new faculty to the ME department this school year.

Wed, 09/02/2020
UW teams up with regional first responders on mask decontamination
Thanks to a unique and innovative Washington partnership, first responders have a new tool for the pandemic. Stations across the region have begun receiving University of Washington-designed, locally manufactured systems to decontaminate the high-demand face masks needed to protect them from COVID-19 while carrying out their essential duties.

Mon, 08/24/2020 | UW College of Engineering
Engineering STARS
ME alumna Ewurama Karikari and other STARS graduates fill us in on what they’ve been up to since receiving their engineering degrees.

Tue, 08/18/2020 | UW Industrial & Systems Engineering
Banerjee wins Amazon award
Ashis Banerjee has been awarded a prestigious 2019 Amazon Research Award.

Mon, 07/27/2020 | Dept of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
Can the coronavirus spread in hospital air?
Using state-of-the-art sensors, ME and Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences researchers are teaming up with UW colleagues to track aerosols in a hospital environment.

Fri, 07/24/2020 | American Physical Society
Professor Michelle DiBenedetto receives APS’s 2020 Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid DynamicsThe award recognizes "exceptional young scientists who have performed original doctoral thesis work of outstanding scientific quality and achievement in the area of fluid dynamics."

Wed, 07/15/2020 | UW News
A GoPro for beetles: Researchers create a robotic camera backpack for insectsA UW team has developed a tiny wireless steerable camera small enough to ride aboard an insect.

Mon, 07/13/2020 | UW News
Laurel Morgan Miller Marsh awarded Fulbright ScholarshipME graduate student Laurel Morgan Miller Marsh has been awarded a Fulbright to conduct research in Germany. Marsh's dissertation work focuses on flow-diverting stents and their use to treat cerebral aneurysms.

Thu, 07/09/2020
UW leading effort to map northwest’s robotics training resourcesAs part of a major project by the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute, the University of Washington is leading a canvassing effort to identify all of the potential training resources in advanced robotics for manufacturing across five states: Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho and Alaska.

Mon, 07/06/2020
'Acoustic tweezers' may offer noninvasive solution to kidney stones and other medical applications
In a new paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of UW researchers describe a method for using ultrasound to noninvasively control a solid object within a living body.

Thu, 06/18/2020 | UW Alumni Association
Naresh Goyal’s passion for education
The Goyal Family Endowed Scholarship honors the legacy of Naresh "Nick" Goyal (BSME, '72) and offers students the same opportunity Naresh had – to pursue an engineering degree and gain an education that will last a lifetime.

Mon, 06/08/2020
Together we willFabrication engineers help meet the need for medical supplies due to COVID-19.


Tue, 05/05/2020
Two ME students in the 2020 Husky 100ME Seattle students Alyssa Spomer and Behnoosh Parsa are among the 100 University of Washington students named to the 2020 Husky 100 cohort, an honor given to just 100 students across all UW's degree programs and 3 campuses annually.

Wed, 04/29/2020 | UW News
Solar researchers across country join forces with industry to boost U.S. solar manufacturingA new coalition called the U.S. Manufacturing of Advanced Perovskites Consortium, or US-MAP, aims to accelerate the domestic commercialization of perovskite technologies.

Tue, 04/14/2020 | UW News
UW’s 3D printed COVID-19 face shields: From innovation to delivery3D printers across the UW's three campuses were running 24/7 to print face shields for health care workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mon, 04/06/2020 | UW Foster School of Business
ME Team Wins 2020 Environmental Innovation ChallengeAquagga, one of four ME-affiliated teams competing, was named the winner of the $15,000 Grand Prize at the 2020 Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge (EIC).