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Four of the six winning startups in the Washington University Skandalaris Venture Competition (SVC) included students from McKelvey Engineering.

Winning startups at Skandalaris Venture Competition include McKelvey Engineering students

Skandalaris Center awards $25,000 to advance startups to the next level.

12.04.2025

ShiNung Ching

Ching named chair of the Preston M. Green Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering

ShiNung Ching will succeed Bruno Sinopoli as chair Jan. 1, 2026.

12.03.2025

Matthew Lew

Lew elected Fellow of Optica

Matthew Lew was elected for his contributions to super-resolution microscopy, single-molecule imaging and developing innovative nanoscale sensing techniques.

11.25.2025

(From left) Yuan, Bae

Two McKelvey faculty awarded Global Incubator Seed Grants

Joshua Yuan, Sang-Hoon Bae recognized for environmental research projects.

11.24.2025

Hong Chen

Chen named finalist for Sony Women in Technology Award

Hong Chen is a renowned expert in focused ultrasound.

11.20.2025

Clockwise from top left: Alfaro, Barnett, Cher, Xue and Cox

Five McKelvey Engineering graduate students selected for Olin-Chancellor’s Fellowships

Program recognizes second-year doctoral students with exceptional academic and research accomplishments.

11.18.2025

Pictured (l – r): Ehrhard, Ramani, Wyckoff

Three McKelvey faculty honored with 2025 Emerson teaching awards

Ray Ehrhard, Vijay Ramani and Kristen Wyckoff recently received 2025 Emerson teaching awards.

11.14.2025

Clockwise from top left: faculty members Pappu and Zhang, students Treiman, Najjuuko and Kim

McKelvey Engineering faculty, students receive Provost’s Research Excellence Award

Honor recognizes exemplary researchers and scholars across the university.

11.13.2025

Clockwise from top left: Jiao, Martin, Pappu, Yang, Wu

Five researchers from McKelvey Engineering among the world’s most cited

The faculty rank in the top 1% by citations for their field in the past decade.

11.13.2025

Events

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Imaging Science & Engineering Seminar | Kooresh I. Shoghi at Preston M. Green Hall

Electrical & Systems Engineering Seminar | Yang Liu at Preston M. Green Hall

EECE Seminar - Dr. Ling Fei at Uncas A. Whitaker Hall

Latest News Briefs

Clara McLeod and Izzy Mbatai

Mbatai wins Dean James E. McLeod First-Year Writing Prize

Sophomore Izzy Mbatai has been awarded the Dean James E. McLeod First-Year Writing Prize from the College of Arts & Sciences and the College Writing Program.

10.17.2025

Habib Chamoun (left) learned about an opportunity to teach at the Sever Institute through his son, Antoine.

Sever professor pursues global mission in engineering education, negotiation

Habib Chamoun shares Sever connection with his son, Antoine.

10.06.2025

John Gleaves, former chemical engineering faculty, 79

Gleaves was co-inventor of the TAP reactor system.

06.18.2025

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Hong Chen, her collaborators and her lab members have been using focused ultrasound to deliver drugs to the brain, to treat brain diseases and to aid in noninvasive brain liquid biopsy for the molecular diagnosis of brain diseases. Photo by Douglas Garfield

Wonderland

Focused ultrasound making strides in diagnosis, unlocking potential treatment of brain disorders.

06.05.2025

Kahan Chavda, who earned a bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering in 2016, is a co-founder and chief commercial officer of Inversa, which is working to manage invasive species in a unique way. Photo by Lisa Beth Anderson

How fashion could heal the planet

06.05.2025

Clockwise from left: Avery Cohen, Geoffrey Goffman, Sophie Fendler and Jack Galloway assemble the ground station frame. Photos by Jerry Naunheim

On a mission

WashU Satellite has big plans for its spaceflight technologies.

06.05.2025

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Katie Auyeung, a Washington University junior engineering major from Chicago, right, and Zachary Fine, a sophomore biomedical engineering major from Silver Spring, Md., left, help Craig Oberle, of Florissant, put on a device they invented that would help limit his hand tremors at the end of the school’s annual Make-a-Thon program on Thursday in St. Louis’ Central West End neighborhood. (Brian Munoz / St. Louis Public Radio)

Students invent new adaptive tech during 10-day Make-a-Thon blitz

This year's Make-a-Thon yielded eight projects.

02.26.2025

Image: Mark Ross

In the media: Mysterious blobs found inside cells are rewriting the story of how life works

Tiny specks called biomolecular condensates are leading to a new understanding of the cell.

01.22.2025

Hong Chen

In the Media: New Technique for Diagnosing Brain Diseases is Successfully Put to the Test

HEC Science & Technology explores Hong Chen's new method of detecting Alzheimer's disease.

07.31.2023

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