August 3, 2015
UW EE Alum Jeffrey Walling Honored with Outstanding Teaching Award
UW EE alum Jeffrey Walling (Ph.D. ’08) was honored with the University of Utah’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award for 2015. This is the second excellence in teaching award Walling has received since he began teaching five years ago. An assistant professor, Walling places an emphasis on providing various methods to help his…
August 2, 2015
Memorial Scholarship Honors Alum Stephanie Subak
In honor of UW EE alum Stephanie Subak, who was an inspiration to students and an advocate for women in the electrical engineering field, Subak’s employer for more than 34 years, Fluke Corporation, has established the Stephanie Subak Memorial Scholarship. Subak, 58, passed away while doing what she loved—frequenting the outdoors. An avid outdoorswoman, Subak…
August 1, 2015
Why Electrical Engineering? Undergraduates Share Their Stories
From wanting to help people by developing robotics devices to creating wireless power solutions, undergraduate students Amanda Loh and Jeff Raines share why they decided to pursue a degree in electrical engineering. Learn more about the UW EE bachelor’s degree program.
July 13, 2015
EE’s Sumit Roy to Investigate Efficient Use of Radio Spectrum
EE Professor Sumit Roy has received a three-year grant from the U.S. Air Force’s Contested Environment Radio Frequency Exploitation and Research (CERFER) program to investigate more efficient use of the radio spectrum, which is the driver of the modern Internet era. With escalating demands on the radio spectrum, Roy’s research will specifically explore the co-existence…
July 12, 2015
UW EE Senior Shruti Misra Is Powering Promise
UW EE senior Shruti Misra is featured this week on UW’s homepage for her“Be Boundless” story. With a passion for sustainability, Misra is a project lead for UW Solar and is helping to spread solar power across campus. Congratulations, Shruti!
July 11, 2015
EE’s Daniel Kirschen and Payman Arabshahi to Investigate the Resilience of Power Systems in Natural Disasters
Natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes and floods impact power systems, as demonstrated by events such as Hurricane Sandy in 2012. The resulting power outages can last up to weeks, causing hardship for many people. To address this problem, EE Professors Daniel Kirschen(lead PI) and Payman Arabshahi (co-PI) have received a three-year $349,000 grant from…
July 10, 2015
UW EE Eve Riskin’s MobileASL Featured in Scientific American
MobileASL technology, developed by a research team led by EE faculty member Eve Riskin, has been featured in Scientific American. MobileASL was developed to improve wireless cell phone communication for people using sign language. The technology, which achieved higher quality video at lower bandwidths, was designed specifically for people communicating via American Sign Language (ASL) on…
July 9, 2015
EE’s Vikram Jandhyala Discusses Unlocking Innovation at UW
July 8, 2015
UW Nanofabrication Facility Receives $37 Million to Expand
The UW Washington Nanofabrication Facility (WNF), directed by EE Professor Karl Bohringer, has received up to $37 million in funding from the UW Board of Regents for an extensive expansion project. “The building infrastructure is from the 80s and desperately needs updating,” Bohringer said. “Lab activities have about tripled in the past four years since we…
July 7, 2015
Matt Reynolds and Shwetak Patel’s SideSwipe is the Future of Smartphones
Developed in the labs of UW EE Professors Matt Reynolds andShwetak Patel, SideSwipe technology was featured in the July issue of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. SideSwipe enables the entire space around a smartphone to become interactive using gesture control. The phone’s own wireless transmissions are used to sense and respond to specific hand gestures. This…
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