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Professor Steve Brunton writing math equations on a lightboard with a marker

Tue, 10/27/2020

‘Eigensteve’ Brunton: YouTubing math for engineers

With over four million views and 90,000 subscribers, Professor Steve Brunton’s YouTube channel simplifies the mathematical fundamentals behind data-driven engineering concepts.

Aniruddh Vashisth, Michelle DiBenedetto, Krithika Manohar

Thu, 09/24/2020

Welcome new faculty

Join us in welcoming new faculty to the ME department this school year.

15 N95 masks inside a glowing green chamber

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.

A researcher pressing buttons on an electronic device in a lab

Tue, 09/01/2020 | UW Mechanical Engineering

Life suspended: The past and future of cryopreservation

The idea of freezing and later thawing out the human body has been a favorite of storytellers for decades, but the science of cryopreservation may be even more interesting.

A collage of three students

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.

Ashis Banerjee

Tue, 08/18/2020 | UW Industrial & Systems Engineering

Banerjee wins Amazon award

Ashis Banerjee has been awarded a prestigious 2019 Amazon Research Award.

A faculty reviewing a student’s medical device prototype

Thu, 08/06/2020 | UW Mechanical Engineering

Engineering innovations offer promise during pandemic

Engineering innovations confront health care challenges with new urgency during the COVID-19 crisis.

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 Dynamics

The 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 insects

A 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 Scholarship

ME 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 resources

As 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 will

Fabrication engineers help meet the need for medical supplies due to COVID-19.

Mon, 06/08/2020

Mechanical goes virtual

How ME has adapted for remote education.

A researcher adjusting device on another person's legs

Thu, 05/28/2020

CREATE for accessibility

The new UW CREATE center is led by an interdisciplinary team whose mission is to make technology accessible and to make the world accessible through technology.

Mon, 05/11/2020 | UW Mechanical Engineering

Hearts in space

Mechanical engineering professor Nathan Sniadecki explains the research benefits of organ and tissue chips and why some — like the heart tissue chips developed in his lab — are sent into space.

Tue, 05/05/2020

Two ME students in the 2020 Husky 100

ME 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 manufacturing

A new coalition called the U.S. Manufacturing of Advanced Perovskites Consortium, or US-MAP, aims to accelerate the domestic commercialization of perovskite technologies.

Fri, 04/24/2020 | UW Mechanical Engineering

Waste to water

An ME co-founded company addressing chemical cleanup won the 2020 Environmental Innovation Challenge.

Tue, 04/14/2020 | UW News

UW’s 3D printed COVID-19 face shields: From innovation to delivery

3D 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 Challenge

Aquagga, 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).

Tue, 03/10/2020 | UW Medicine

3D beating heart tissue experiment heads to Space Station

ME professor Nathan Sniadecki and graduate student Ty Higashi are part of a team that's sending beating heart tissue to space to study how microgravity and other physical forces in space exact their effects on heart muscle.

Tue, 03/10/2020

The Women of Fluid Mechanics

ME graduate student Courtney Otani shares personal stories and practical advice from women in fluid mechanics.