Engineering Innovation in Medicine: Fall 2015

The Engineering Innovations in Medicine 2015-2016 Class is underway! This year we have 70 students from mechanical engineering, material science, bioengineering, electrical engineering, and rehabilitation medicine pursuing 15 projects. We have an outstanding team of clinical and industry mentors who inspired these projects and will be working with the teams throughout the year.

In the first two weeks of classes students have completed a prototyping challenge, toured the Institute for Simulation in Surgery at UW hospital, dived into needs finding, and met with their mentors to launch each project. We are excited to see what everyone creates this year!

Prototyping challenge during the first day of class.

Sasha Portnova to present in The International Conference of Undergraduate Research

AlexSasha Portnova is presenting her research on 3D-printed wrist-driven hand orthoses today in The International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR). The conference is an annual multidisciplinary forum that connects students from universities in seven countries across the world. Sasha was the sole person selected from the ME department at UW to present. Great work, Sasha!

Congratulations to Gaurav Mukherjee, Emerging Leaders in Science & Society 2016

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Gaurav will join the Emerging Leaders in Science & Society (ELISS) with a class of graduate and professional students from a wide range of disciplines from five partner campuses: Purdue, UW-Seattle, Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill, and UC-Irvine. ELISS prepares and empowers their fellows to take a collaborative, cross-disciplinary approach to solving real-world problems. Congratulations!