ECE Advising Blog


October 19, 2022

UW Annual President’s Address – 10/20, 10 a.m.

UW President Ana Mari Cauce invites you to attend her annual address on Thursday, Oct. 20. Join her as she shares her vision for the year ahead and discusses the University of Washington’s critical role in accelerating change for the public good through education, innovation, discovery and collaboration. The address can be viewed remotely and will be recorded…


Colloquium Lecture (Technical Talk): On Human Models for Human-Robot Interaction – 11/15, 10:30 a.m.

November 15th 10:30am—11:30am | UW ECE 123 Abstract: Much of my work has dealt with human-robot interaction by pretending that people are like robots: assuming they optimize for utility, and run Bayes filters to maintain estimates over what they can’t directly observe. It’s somewhat surprising that this approach works at all, given that behavioral economics has long…


GradSWE: SWEsters Mentorship Program – sign up by 10/23

SWEsters is a mentorship program is designed to create groups of mentors with mentees in order to foster mini-professional and support networks within SWE. Sign-ups [docs.google.com]close on Sunday, October 23rd at 5PM. 


GradSWE: Outreach at Sanislo Elementary on 11/17 – sign up by 11/1

GradSWE is partnering up with UW Science Explorers, who hosts amazing lesson plans and hands-on activities for 4th and 5th graders at Sanislo Elementary! This is an exciting, in-person opportunity to teach STEM to underrepresented students on November 17th from 3-4PM! Sign-ups [docs.google.com] close on Tuesday, November 1st at 5 PM. 


ECE Endowed Lecture: Anca Dragan, UC Berkeley – 11/14, 3:15 p.m.

You are invited to the UW Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering’s annual Dean W. Lytle Endowed Lecture Series.  We are extremely excited to welcome Anca Dragan, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at UC Berkeley, as this year’s keynote speaker. Her lecture, Robotics algorithms that take people into account, will be held on Monday,…


Johns Hopkins: Tenure-track Assistant Professor – apply by 12/15

The Department of ECE at Johns Hopkins is seeking applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. Applicants in all areas of ECE will be considered. I would appreciate if you could help distribute this announcement within your department/school. Naturally, if you have an outstanding student or postdoc in the job market this year, please encourage…


Distinguished Teaching Awards – nominate by 11/11

Honors Six extraordinary individual faculty members — four from the Seattle campus and one each from the UW Bothell and UW Tacoma campuses. Highlights Recipients will be celebrated in June. Nominations due: Nov. 11 Make a Nomination


Distinguished Teaching Award for Teams – Nominate by 11/11

This new award is granted to instructional teams/collaborators (two to five people) from any UW campus. The teams may include faculty, students, TAs, staff educators, librarians and/or other members of the UW who support instruction. Highlights Recipients will be celebrated in June. Nominations due: Nov. 11 Make a Nomination


October 18, 2022

CoMotion: Winter 2023 I-Corps – register by 12/4

If you do, you should consider applying for the Winter 2023 I-Corps customer discovery program. Funded by the National Science Foundation and in collaboration with WE-REACH and University of Alaska Fairbanks Center ICE, the program aims to accelerate academic research projects that are ready to move toward commercialization. We support science-driven solutions across all sectors, and we offer…


IBUILD Graduate Research Fellowship Accepting Applications! – Info Session 10/19, apply by 12/2

The Innovation in Buildings (IBUILD) Graduate Research Fellowship is now accepting applications through December 2, 2022 (5:00 PM EST).  This fellowship will support innovative graduate research that aligns with the mission of the US Department of Energy Building Technologies Office (BTO) [energy.gov]. The fellowship will strengthen the pool of well-trained, diverse MS and PhD scholars who are…



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