News

Wed, 02/09/2022

The collaboration will focus on advancing innovation in core robotics, and AI technologies and their applications. Professor Ashis Banerjee is part of the joint advisory committee.

Mon, 02/07/2022 | UW Medicine

Researchers at the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine share how they’ve adapted space technology to understand how the heart can be injured by the coronavirus.

Mon, 01/24/2022 | UW Mechanical Engineering

ME Professor Corie L. Cobb, the Washington Research Foundation Innovation Professor in Clean Energy, has been selected as recipient of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Director’s Fellowship Award.

Thu, 01/20/2022

With research aiming to increase access to critical cancer detection technology, ME graduate students Andrew Lewis and Chen Gong won the Best Paper Award at the 2021 International Symposium on Medical Robotics.

Thu, 01/13/2022

From student to teacher to researcher and intern, Shayla Payne shares the path that has led her toward a career in engineering for human health.

Tue, 01/11/2022 | National Science Foundation

A new NSF grant supports UW planning for an Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) on Data-driven High-rate Composites Manufacturing to partner with industry on high-performance, lightweight materials.

Mon, 01/03/2022 | NanoES

With new funding from NSF, a UW research team aims to develop a dramatically smaller endoscope to image previously inaccessible areas of the heart and brain.

Thu, 12/09/2021

The ME department welcomes new faculty members for the 2021–2022 school year.

Thu, 12/09/2021 | UW News

A team led by the UW has developed a new, non-destructive method that images entire 3D biopsies instead of a slice for determining prostate cancer aggressiveness. The 3D images provided more information than a 2D image — specifically, details about the tree-like structure of the glands throughout the tissue.

Tue, 11/23/2021 | UW Graduate School

Beth Halsne won The Graduate School's Three Minute Thesis Competition for her research on the power of patient input in picking prosthetic feet that work best for them.

Thu, 11/18/2021 | The Daily

UW's student newspaper The Daily features a series of lectures focused on issues surrounding mobility that are being organized by Professors Kat Steele and Heather Feldner.

Mon, 11/15/2021 | GeekWire

Somalytics, a new startup spun out of research by ME Associate Professor Jae-Hyun Chung, has developed ultrathin, flexible sensors that are built from tiny carbon nanotubes embedded in paper that can detect eye and body movement.
 

Wed, 11/03/2021

A new paper describes a type of carbon fiber reinforced material that is as strong and light as traditionally used ones, but can be repeatedly healed with heat, reversing any fatigue and providing a way to break it down when it reaches the end of its life.

Wed, 10/27/2021 | Nature

ME Research Professor Eric Seibel's innovations in oral health imaging are featured by Nature.

Fri, 10/22/2021 | Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute

The ARM (Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing) Institute has announced that it has evaluated and selected UW to receive the ARM Endorsement for academic program excellence in robotics education for manufacturing.

Wed, 10/20/2021

Machine learning presents tremendous opportunities to improve how we build airplanes. ME Assistant Professor Krithika Manohar is just getting started.

Sun, 10/10/2021 | Geekwire

ME Associate Professor Brian Polagye is quoted in a Geekwire article about new wave energy generation devices.

Fri, 10/01/2021 | NSF

A grant from the National Science Foundation will support research by UW Engineering professors Lucas Meza, Vipin Kumar and Marco Salviato to study and develop nanostructured foam plastics that are both light and tough.

Thu, 09/30/2021 | UW News

Shawn Swanson - ME PhD, Engineering Innovation in Health all star, MedsForAll founder and Population Health Social Entrepreneurship Fellow - is profiled by the UW Population Health Initiative.

Wed, 09/22/2021 | Wired

NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) research is featured by Wired.

Mon, 09/13/2021 | ASME

Research in VR for mental health featured by ASME.

Sat, 09/11/2021 | The Washington Post

Research in using VR to treat PTSD featured by the Washington Post.

Tue, 08/24/2021 | UW Mechanical Engineering

The UW MACS Lab builds robots and machines that combine vision, intelligence and manipulation to play games, perform tasks and advance robotics research goals.

Thu, 08/19/2021

Shen Ren, a postdoctoral fellow in UW ME and the UW Center for Dialysis Innovation, has been named winner of the 2021 Peter L. Steponkus Crystal Award for his work in cryopreservation.

Tue, 08/17/2021 | National Science Foundation

NSF has awarded the Autonomous Insect Robotics Lab, led by ME’s Sawyer Fuller, a grant to develop control systems for flying robots that weigh just fractions of an ounce.