Join Rainbow Grads as we celebrate the start of the school year! Rainbow
Grads invites incoming and current LGBTQ graduate and professional
students and their allies to attend the annual Rainbow Grads Fall
Kick-Off Celebration. This event is our biggest of the year and is a
great way to get plugged in to the queer community across campus as well
as to learn about Rainbow Grads’ social events throughout the year.
It’s also an opportunity to enjoy free drinks, free food, and great
music!
The Kick-Off Celebration will be held Thursday, October 8th, 5 – 8 pm in 300 Fluke Hall. To RSVP, visit our Facebook page at facebook.com/RainbowGrads, go to our website at students.washington.edu/rbgrads, or find us on Twitter @RainbowGrads. Everyone is welcome--we hope to see you there!
Monday, September 28, 2015
Job posting for UW startup (WiBotic)
COMPANY DESCRIPTION
WiBotic is a startup company from the University of Washington Electrical Engineering
Department looking to hire undergraduate or graduate students for part time work during
the school year.
WiBotic is the first company to provide custom wireless charging systems exclusively for
robots. Our goal is to integrate our wireless charging systems with every robot in aerial,
mobile and aquatic robotic applications. We are a young and multi-disciplinary team of
highly motivated engineers with strong backgrounds in wireless power and robotics. We
already have an initial customer base and an initial prototype of our wireless charging
system.
JOB DESCRIPTION
WiBotic is looking for a highly motivated electrical engineer with experience in PCB
design, circuit design, power electronics, component manufacturing. The individual
will work very closely with our engineering team to help develop, design and test our
wireless power system, and customize the system for unique robotic applications.
Mandatory Capabilities
• Highly motivated individual comfortable working in fast-paced startup environment
• Experience in circuit design
• Basic understanding of electrical components
• Proactive team working attitude with good communication skills
Additional Capabilities
• Experience with Solidworks/3D printing/laser cutting
• Experience with radio frequency (RF) circuits and systems
• Experience with PCB design and layout
• Experience with vector network analyzer and oscilloscope
Job Conditions
• The team is located in Seattle, WA on campus at UW in Fluke Hall
• The pay will be hourly and depends on the relevant experience of the candidate
• The job is available for fall quarter, and potentially beyond
CONTACT
If you're interested, please submit your resume to jobs@wibotic.com.
WiBotic is a startup company from the University of Washington Electrical Engineering
Department looking to hire undergraduate or graduate students for part time work during
the school year.
WiBotic is the first company to provide custom wireless charging systems exclusively for
robots. Our goal is to integrate our wireless charging systems with every robot in aerial,
mobile and aquatic robotic applications. We are a young and multi-disciplinary team of
highly motivated engineers with strong backgrounds in wireless power and robotics. We
already have an initial customer base and an initial prototype of our wireless charging
system.
JOB DESCRIPTION
WiBotic is looking for a highly motivated electrical engineer with experience in PCB
design, circuit design, power electronics, component manufacturing. The individual
will work very closely with our engineering team to help develop, design and test our
wireless power system, and customize the system for unique robotic applications.
Mandatory Capabilities
• Highly motivated individual comfortable working in fast-paced startup environment
• Experience in circuit design
• Basic understanding of electrical components
• Proactive team working attitude with good communication skills
Additional Capabilities
• Experience with Solidworks/3D printing/laser cutting
• Experience with radio frequency (RF) circuits and systems
• Experience with PCB design and layout
• Experience with vector network analyzer and oscilloscope
Job Conditions
• The team is located in Seattle, WA on campus at UW in Fluke Hall
• The pay will be hourly and depends on the relevant experience of the candidate
• The job is available for fall quarter, and potentially beyond
CONTACT
If you're interested, please submit your resume to jobs@wibotic.com.
Autumn Inner Pipeline
Please help us spread the word about our amazing
Autumn quarter Inner Pipeline courses and the dynamic opportunity to
earn credit and also gain experience working in K-12 classrooms!!
All of our courses are Credit/No Credit, are I & S credits, and are listed under EDUC 401.
For these seminars, the number of credits a student receives depends on the number of tutoring hours completed in addition to seminar
attendance. Credit and tutoring requirements are as follows:
·
2 credits: 2.5 hours tutoring/week (at least 20 hours tutoring/quarter)
·
3 credits: 5 hours tutoring/week (at least 40 hours tutoring/quarter)
·
4 credits: 7.5 hours tutoring/week (at least 60 hours tutoring/quarter)
·
5 credits: 10 hours tutoring/week (at least 80 hours tutoring/quarter)
Here is the link to our website to read further about Pipeline autumn courses:
http://expd.washington.edu/pipeline/inner/autumn-2015-seminars.html
October info session for leadership/policy scholarships with national/campus November deadlines
Barry
M. Goldwater Scholarship Information Session Campus
Application Deadline: Tues., Nov. 10, 2015
National
Application Deadline: January 22, 2016, 5pm Central Time
·
2:00 – 2:50 p.m., Tuesday, October
6, 2015, MGH 173R Conference Room
·
2:00 – 2:50 p.m., Wednesday, October
7, 2015, MGH 173R Conference Room
·
4:30 – 5:20 p.m., Wednesday, Oct.
14, 2015, MGH 173R Conference Room
·
4:30 – 5:20 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 15,
2015, MGH 173R Conference Room
·
3:30 – 4:20 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 20,
2015, MGH 173R Conference Room
Public Policy and International Affairs Scholarships – National Application Deadline November 1st
•
4:00-4:50, Tuesday, Sept 30, 2015, MGH 173R Conference Room
•
5:00-5:50, Tuesday, October 6, 2015, MGH 173R Conference Room
•
2:30-3:20, Thursday, October 8, 2015, MGH 173R Conference Room
Harry S. Truman Scholarship Campus
Application Deadline: Friday, Nov. 13, 2015
National
Application Deadline: February 2, 2016
·
3:30-4:20 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 1,
2015, MGH 173R Conference Room
·
4:00 – 4:50 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 7,
2015, MGH 173Q Team Room
·
3:30 – 3:20 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 13,
2015, MGH 173R Conference Room
Morris K & Stewart Udall Scholarship
Campus Application Deadline: Friday, Dec. 4, 2015
National
Application Deadline: March 2, 2016
·
1:30 – 2:20 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 1,
2015, MGH 173R Conference Room
·
3:30 – 4:20 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 15,
2015, MGH 173R Conference Room
·
2:30 – 3:20 p.m., Wednesday, Oct.
21, 2015, MGH 173R Conference Room
·
3:00 – 3:50 p.m., Tuesday, Nov 17,
2015, MGH 173R Conference Room
Projects within the Ability & Innovation Lab for Undergraduate Research
Mission
The aim of the Ability & Innovation Lab is to empower human performance through
engineering and design. We take a humancentered design approach and work closely
with patients, clinicians, and families. Whether on the athletic field, in the clinic, or at
home we seek to understand how humans move and how we can improve performance
and quality of life.
Expectations for Undergraduate Researchers
Participating in research can give you an opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills
you are learning in the classroom to important clinical challenges. Research is
challenging by definition, most of what you will be doing has never been done before.
As such, we are looking for students who are selfstarters, independent, and willing to
explore uncharted territory. As a lab we work to support each other and work as a team
to improve human ability.
Our general expectations for undergraduate researchers include:
● Dedicating a minimum of three quarters to volunteer in the lab. During the academic
year, classes are your top priority.These are challenging projects and three quarters will
give you the time to dive in and make significant contributions to research.
● Spending a minimum of tenhours per week working on research (including weekly
meetings). We know that classes, work, and other extracurricular activities keep your
schedule busy. Ask yourself if you have time to responsibly dedicate to pursuing
research.
● Participating in weekly research meetings. You should come prepared to these meetings
with slides or other handouts to share your progress, discuss challenges, and help your
peers with their research.
● Helping with outreach activities. We commonly have requests from K12
students and other groups to tour our lab. We ask for volunteers from the lab to help with these tours
and share their experience.
● Keeping clear documentation and a lab notebook. Others will likely be building upon and
learning from your work in the future. Thus it is important that everyone keeps clear
notes (including comments in any computer code) so that you can easily share what you
have done.
● Defining clear goals and outcomes. We aim for everyone to produce a final report,
abstract, or other publication based upon their project. We will work with you to help
define these goals for your specific project and career goals.
Definitions
cerebral palsy (CP) is a disorder caused by an injury to the brain near the time of birth and commonly impairs movement and walking.
______________________________________________________________________
Cartilage Thickness
Title: Is cartilage health compromised in CP or amputees?
Description: Prior research has documented that joint pain is common among individuals with cerebral palsy and amputees. However, the impact of these altered dynamics on cartilage
health have not been thoroughly explored. Using MRI images we can analyze the thickness of the knee cartilage in the two interested populations along with their age, weight, and height matched nonaffected peers.
The goal of this research is to manually segment the knees of our 15 children
with CP and 14 transfemoral amputees along with each of their respective controls. This
analysis will let us determine if cartilage health is compromised and how MRI may help
to monitor cartilage growth, development, and maintenance.
Minimum Requirements: Undergraduates with experience with Matlab in Mechanical
Engineering, Bioengineering, HCDE, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or
related fields of interest.
To Learn More:
1. Contact forces increase at the knee during crouch gait (CP)
2. Gait mechanics influence healthy cartilage morphology and osteoarthritis of
the knee
____________________________________________________________________
Longterm
EMG
Title: Analysis of muscle activity in daily life
Description: Physical activity is an important component to
overall health and prevention of disease. Prolonged bouts of
sedentary behavior place individuals at an increased risk for
disease even if they perform moderate to vigorous activities.
While pedometers allow users to record walking durations,
surface electromyography (EMG) allows for understanding of
the demands placed on individual muscles during daily life.
The purpose of this research is to test longterm
monitoring
of muscle activity with EMG during activities of daily living in
unimpaired individuals. This project will set the foundation for
evaluating abnormal muscle activity in individuals with stroke,
cerebral palsy, and other neurological disorders.
For this project we will use surface electromyography (EMG)
to measure activity of the back, lowerand
upperextremity
muscles to analyze the repeatability of EMG measurements
and characterize muscle activity during daily life. We will use
both a lowcost
EMG device and a high end device to collect
data from the participant while they are both in and out of the
lab. EMG and accelerometer data will be processed in Matlab
to quantify daily muscle activity.
Minimum Requirements: Undergraduates in Electrical
Engineering, Computer Science, of Human Centered Design & Engineering with a
background in signal processing. Candidates with experience programming in Matlab
and some electronics (e.g. soldering) are preferred.
To Learn More:
Longterm
Surface EMG +12 hours
_____________________________________________________________________
Seattle Children’s Hospital Actigraph
Project
Title: Quantifying hand use during constraint induced movement therapy
Description: Children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy
(where one side of the body is affected) often favor
their unaffected limb during daily tasks. To promote
use of their hemiplegic hand a therapy called
constraintinduced
movement therapy (CIMT) is
administered where their unaffected hand is placed in
a cast for a month to encourage them to use and
improve performance of their affected hand. During
this therapy clinicians at Seattle Children’s Hospital
are interested in how the use of their affected limb
differs from the unaffected limb. We aim to provide
the clinicians with daily reports on hand use and
explore how the device can be used to motivate kids
to use their affected hand more. To quantify hand
movement we use an accelerometer (like a fitbit) to
track the movements of both wrists. The goals for this
research is to create a GUI for data analysis, collect
normative data (unimpaired individuals with our
inhouse
inertial measurement units), answer the question of how we normalize the
data, and determine what data is most useful to patients/clinicians/parents.
Minimum Requirements: Undergraduates in HCDE or related fields of interest.
To Learn More:
Constraintinduced
movement therapy in young children with hemiplegic cerebral
palsy
______________________________________________________
The aim of the Ability & Innovation Lab is to empower human performance through
engineering and design. We take a humancentered design approach and work closely
with patients, clinicians, and families. Whether on the athletic field, in the clinic, or at
home we seek to understand how humans move and how we can improve performance
and quality of life.
Expectations for Undergraduate Researchers
Participating in research can give you an opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills
you are learning in the classroom to important clinical challenges. Research is
challenging by definition, most of what you will be doing has never been done before.
As such, we are looking for students who are selfstarters, independent, and willing to
explore uncharted territory. As a lab we work to support each other and work as a team
to improve human ability.
Our general expectations for undergraduate researchers include:
● Dedicating a minimum of three quarters to volunteer in the lab. During the academic
year, classes are your top priority.These are challenging projects and three quarters will
give you the time to dive in and make significant contributions to research.
● Spending a minimum of tenhours per week working on research (including weekly
meetings). We know that classes, work, and other extracurricular activities keep your
schedule busy. Ask yourself if you have time to responsibly dedicate to pursuing
research.
● Participating in weekly research meetings. You should come prepared to these meetings
with slides or other handouts to share your progress, discuss challenges, and help your
peers with their research.
● Helping with outreach activities. We commonly have requests from K12
students and other groups to tour our lab. We ask for volunteers from the lab to help with these tours
and share their experience.
● Keeping clear documentation and a lab notebook. Others will likely be building upon and
learning from your work in the future. Thus it is important that everyone keeps clear
notes (including comments in any computer code) so that you can easily share what you
have done.
● Defining clear goals and outcomes. We aim for everyone to produce a final report,
abstract, or other publication based upon their project. We will work with you to help
define these goals for your specific project and career goals.
Definitions
cerebral palsy (CP) is a disorder caused by an injury to the brain near the time of birth and commonly impairs movement and walking.
______________________________________________________________________
Cartilage Thickness
Title: Is cartilage health compromised in CP or amputees?
Description: Prior research has documented that joint pain is common among individuals with cerebral palsy and amputees. However, the impact of these altered dynamics on cartilage
health have not been thoroughly explored. Using MRI images we can analyze the thickness of the knee cartilage in the two interested populations along with their age, weight, and height matched nonaffected peers.
The goal of this research is to manually segment the knees of our 15 children
with CP and 14 transfemoral amputees along with each of their respective controls. This
analysis will let us determine if cartilage health is compromised and how MRI may help
to monitor cartilage growth, development, and maintenance.
Minimum Requirements: Undergraduates with experience with Matlab in Mechanical
Engineering, Bioengineering, HCDE, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or
related fields of interest.
To Learn More:
1. Contact forces increase at the knee during crouch gait (CP)
2. Gait mechanics influence healthy cartilage morphology and osteoarthritis of
the knee
____________________________________________________________________
Longterm
EMG
Title: Analysis of muscle activity in daily life
Description: Physical activity is an important component to
overall health and prevention of disease. Prolonged bouts of
sedentary behavior place individuals at an increased risk for
disease even if they perform moderate to vigorous activities.
While pedometers allow users to record walking durations,
surface electromyography (EMG) allows for understanding of
the demands placed on individual muscles during daily life.
The purpose of this research is to test longterm
monitoring
of muscle activity with EMG during activities of daily living in
unimpaired individuals. This project will set the foundation for
evaluating abnormal muscle activity in individuals with stroke,
cerebral palsy, and other neurological disorders.
For this project we will use surface electromyography (EMG)
to measure activity of the back, lowerand
upperextremity
muscles to analyze the repeatability of EMG measurements
and characterize muscle activity during daily life. We will use
both a lowcost
EMG device and a high end device to collect
data from the participant while they are both in and out of the
lab. EMG and accelerometer data will be processed in Matlab
to quantify daily muscle activity.
Minimum Requirements: Undergraduates in Electrical
Engineering, Computer Science, of Human Centered Design & Engineering with a
background in signal processing. Candidates with experience programming in Matlab
and some electronics (e.g. soldering) are preferred.
To Learn More:
Longterm
Surface EMG +12 hours
_____________________________________________________________________
Seattle Children’s Hospital Actigraph
Project
Title: Quantifying hand use during constraint induced movement therapy
Description: Children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy
(where one side of the body is affected) often favor
their unaffected limb during daily tasks. To promote
use of their hemiplegic hand a therapy called
constraintinduced
movement therapy (CIMT) is
administered where their unaffected hand is placed in
a cast for a month to encourage them to use and
improve performance of their affected hand. During
this therapy clinicians at Seattle Children’s Hospital
are interested in how the use of their affected limb
differs from the unaffected limb. We aim to provide
the clinicians with daily reports on hand use and
explore how the device can be used to motivate kids
to use their affected hand more. To quantify hand
movement we use an accelerometer (like a fitbit) to
track the movements of both wrists. The goals for this
research is to create a GUI for data analysis, collect
normative data (unimpaired individuals with our
inhouse
inertial measurement units), answer the question of how we normalize the
data, and determine what data is most useful to patients/clinicians/parents.
Minimum Requirements: Undergraduates in HCDE or related fields of interest.
To Learn More:
Constraintinduced
movement therapy in young children with hemiplegic cerebral
palsy
______________________________________________________
Scholarships for Study Abroad Info Sessions
Happy
fall! We have a few workshops and information sessions coming up in
the first two weeks of school. Please share the following Global
Opportunities info session information with your students.
All workshops are in MGH 171
Getting Started: Funding your Study Abroad: Attend this information session to learn more about scholarships and planning for study abroad.
This session is geared for students who are just starting to think about study abroad.
Thursday, October 1st 3:30-4:30pm
Wednesday, October 7th 3-4pm
Fritz Scholarship Application Workshop:
Learn how to make your application more competitive! We’ll tackle the
personal statement and CV
section of the Fritz scholarship. The Fritz scholarship is a study
abroad scholarship for undergraduate students majoring in the Humanities
or Social Sciences. You must have a 3.0 gpa and be admitted to your
major prior to applying.
Tuesday, October 6th 3:30-4:30pm
Friday, October 9th 12-1pm
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