April 6, 2011
Ramses Alcaide awarded NSF Fellowship
Ramses Alcaide, who was an UWEE undergraduate and is now a graduate student at the University of Michigan, has been awarded an NSF Fellowship. You might remember him as one of the students flying a blimp around the CSE atrium last June. GRFP awards provide three years of support including an annual stipend, cost-of-education allowance,…
April 4, 2011
2011 UW Environmental Innovation Challenge Winners
UWEE students and faculty were part of two winning teams taking part in this year’s Environmental Innovation Challenge. Undergraduate student Kerwin Loukusa was a member of the first-place winning team, while grad student Charlie Matlack and Professor Howard Chizeck were associated with the team taking second. A total of 17 teams from around the region…
April 3, 2011
Myers and Gebhart Win Gates Leadership Scholarships
Congratulations to Gennie Gebhart and Kelly Myers who have recently been awarded the 2011 Mary Gates Leadership Scholarship. Other EE undergraduates or students mentored by EE faculty who have previously received Gates Scholarship Awards include Bryan Boyko, Ryan Charrier, Joy Kim, Elliot Saba, and Gen Vigil. Sophomore Gennie Gebhart has been awarded a very competitive 2011 Mary Gates…
April 1, 2011
2011 Annual EEIC Poster Contest Announcement
The Electric Energy Industrial Consortium (EEIC) is sponsoring a poster contest, and all interested graduate and undergraduate students are encouraged to submit a poster for this competition on an energy-related topic. Monitory awards will be given in each of the three poster entry categories. In addition, the 1st place winners in the Graduate Research and…
March 3, 2011
Seelig Awarded the 2011 Sloan Research Fellowship
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Georg Seelig for receiving the 2011 Alfred P. Sloan Research Award! Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research of early-career scientists and scholars that show outstanding promise. These two-year fellowships are awarded yearly to 118 researchers in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their…
March 2, 2011
EE/CSE IEEEXtreme Team Wins Regional Prize
Students from EE and CSE took first place in region six at the IEEEXtreme Team competition. IEEEXtreme is a global challenge in which teams of IEEE student members compete in a 24-hour time span against each other to solve a set of programming problems. The competition is supported by an IEEE Student Branch, and advised and proctored…
February 2, 2011
Jandhyala to Chair Panel on “Cloud Computing for Electronic Co-Design: Challenges and Opportunities”
Professor Vikram Jandhyala will chair a panel on “Cloud Computing for Electronic Co-Design: Challenges and Opportunities” at DesignCon 2011 being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA between January 31 to February 3, 2011. This panel brings together experts from Texas Instruments, IBM, Cadence, Synopsys, Amazon Web Services, and Physware who will…
February 1, 2011
Alumnus Pamela Bhatti Receives the NSF CAREER Award
UW EE Alumnus Pamela Bhatti received the NSF CAREER Award to develop a MEMS-based biomimetic angular rotation sensor and vestibular prosthesis. Bhatti received her MS degree from the EE department in 1993 (Biorobotics Lab). After gaining some experience working in industry, she later obtained her PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Bhatti has…
January 9, 2011
Encouraging Women in Industry to Apply for Faculty Jobs
January 8, 2011
Hacking Kinect for Robotic Surgery
Students from EE’s Biorobotics Lab have adapted Microsoft’s Kinect gaming system for robotic surgery research. Visiting graduate student Fredrik Ryden has been working with Professors Howard Chizeck and Blake Hannaford on this project. The original video demonstrating the haptics-Kinect work was posted on YouTube last December and has received nearly 27,000 hits. Since then the…
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