“How can we make our operating room safer during the pandemic?” When Dr. James Hecker, an anesthesiologist at UW Medical Center, heard this question from a fellow physician, he thought about the problem not just as a doctor but also as an engineer. Hecker, who has a PhD in chemical and biomedical engineering, knew about …
We are pleased to announce that NRG is the recipient of a new CoMotion award that will support the development of University of Washington (UW) innovations that have potential for transformational impact in areas of pressing societal need. Led my Professor Igor, we are joined by James Hecker, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine …
The 2020 Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge (EIC), hosted by the UW Foster School’s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship, named Aquagga, co-founded by Brian Pinkard of UW Mechanical Engineering (ME) Novosselov Research Group and the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), as $15,000 Alaska Airlines Grand Prize winners, extending the ME department’s and specially the Novosselov Research …
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In a recently accepted article in the ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering journal, NRG student Brian Pinkard explores the reaction behavior of complex molecules such as methanol, ethanol and isopropyl alcohol in supercritical water. Working with Professor Kramlich and Professor Novosselov of UW’s Mechanical Engineering department, Pinkard proposes global reaction pathways in addition to discussing …
Supercritical Water Gasification Offers Promising Waste-to-Energy Technology Read More »
Happy International Women’s Day! In honor of all the women across the world, we’d like the share a recent article one of our students, Courtney Otani, wrote for the American Physical Society. Sharing her experience as a woman in engineering, Otani writes about her time attending the 2019 APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) and …
The winner of past startup competitions, AeroSpec, has now been selected as one of the recipients of the Jones + Foster Accelerator program. Guided by the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business, AeroSpec will receive up to $25,000 after they completing six months of milestones under the mentorship …
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2019 proves to be a strong year for NRG’s research in electrohydrodynamic flow. Electrohydrodynamics (EHD) involves the study of plasma actuators to generate plasma that can then be controlled with the application of an external flow, and in the past year NRG has produced 10 articles involving analytical, experimental, and numerical investigations of EHD. From …
Numerous NRG students including Justin Davis, Yifei Guan, Patrick Fillingham, Ravi Vaddi, James Riley, Courtney Otani, and Elizabeth Rasmussen present at this year’s 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics held in Seattle, WA. Our research presentations range from electrohydrodynamic, particle science, combution, and much more. Click on each student’s …
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Our recently published work (collaboration with Autonomous Insect Robotics Lab) featured in wired magazine. From the article: You may have heard of ion propulsion in the context of spacecraft, but this application is a bit different. Most solar-powered ion spacecraft bombard xenon atoms with electrons, producing positively charged xenon ions that then rush toward a negatively …
AN ITTY-BITTY ROBOT THAT LIFTS OFF LIKE A SCI-FI SPACESHIP Read More »
A team from the reserach group (Motif Materials) idea to make battery technology more sustainable won the top prize at the Alaska Airline environmental innovation challenge. Check out more at Geekwire and Official Blog posts.