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Wed, 10/20/2021

Putting the 'AI' in airplanes

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

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Sun, 10/10/2021 | Geekwire

Is the tide turning on renewable marine power?

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

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Fri, 10/01/2021 | NSF

New funding for nanocellular plastics

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.

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Thu, 09/30/2021 | UW News

Spotlight: Shawn Swanson pursues medical innovations through social entrepreneurship

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.

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Wed, 09/22/2021 | Wired

Here’s a Sneak Peek at the Far-Out Future of Space Travel

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

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Mon, 09/13/2021 | ASME

A Virtual River for Mental Health

Research in VR for mental health featured by ASME.

On the right is a man with a short beard and wearing a VR headset, to the left is a helicopter flying over an explosion drawn in yellow and black to make it look like he's seeing that simulation in VR

Sat, 09/11/2021 | The Washington Post

How virtual reality therapy can help make bad memories more manageable

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

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Tue, 08/24/2021 | UW Mechanical Engineering

A vision for robotics

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

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Thu, 08/19/2021

Shen Ren wins Society for Cryobiology award

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.

A tiny little flying robot about the size of two postage stamps sits in the palm of a hand

Tue, 08/17/2021 | National Science Foundation

Insect-scale flight system supported with new NSF grant

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.