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Abby Simcox on Wheel of Fortune

Tue, 05/03/2022

ME undergrad competes on ‘Wheel of Fortune’

Abby Simcox represented the UW in March for College Week 2022 on the word puzzle game show.

Two scientists in a lab wearing PPE

Thu, 04/28/2022 | UW NanoES

ME faculty receive nanotech awards

Congrats to Ayokunle Olanrewaju and Aniruddh Vashisth for receiving Northwest Nanotechnology Infrastructure seed grants from the Institute for Nano-engineered Systems.

Xu Chen headshot

Wed, 04/27/2022 | Cision PR Newswire

Xu Chen receives SME award

ME’s Xu Chen has received a 2022 Sandra L. Bouckley Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineers Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).

Aniruddh Vashisth

Fri, 04/22/2022 | UW News

Making Earth-friendly electronics

ME’s Aniruddh Vashisth and other UW Engineering researchers discuss their innovative methods to design and manufacture sustainable electronics.

Researcher working on an electronic equipment

Tue, 04/19/2022 | The American Society of Mechanical Engineers

3D cancer imaging

The latest issue of ME Magazine features ME Professor Jon Liu and team’s research to improve the diagnosis of prostate cancer.

Nanobubbles

Mon, 04/18/2022

Bubbles for toughness

UW researchers collaborate to investigate and advance nanofoams, a new tiny but mighty material.

Kilometer-Scale Space Structures concept

Tue, 04/12/2022 | Carnegie Mellon University

Folding space structures

UW and Carnegie Mellon researchers use NASA funding to advance foldable structures that fit into a tiny compartment for launch and expand into super-structures in outer space.

Headshot of Mehmet Kurt

Mon, 04/11/2022 | National Science Foundation

Mehmet Kurt receives NSF CAREER award

ME Assistant Professor Mehmet Kurt has received an NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award for his research on nonlinear resonances of highly damped, soft materials.

Photos of four UW professors

Mon, 03/28/2022 | College of Engineering

Learning outcomes

ME's Brian Polagye and other engineering instructors share what they've discovered from more than a year of remote teaching.

An illustration of doctors performing surgery

Wed, 03/23/2022 | Newswise

Using sound waves to break up kidney stones

An innovative technique called burst wave lithotripsy developed by researchers, including ME Associate Professor Michael Bailey, may provide an effective, more accessible alternative for noninvasive treatment of kidney stones, according to initial human studies.