From local to national design—UW students progress on hybrid car
Guest post by Trevor Crain, UW engineering student and Environmental Innovation Challenge winner The Voltaic team is finishing up its sixth month of participation in... Read More
Video: Michael Potts on a renewable energy future
Michael Potts, CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute, spoke to a group of University of Washington students in all fields – business, engineering, public affairs... Read More
Electrifying cars, one fleet at a time
In 1909 Henry Fold laid down the law: “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is... Read More
$22,500 awarded to clean technology winners
Teams who won the 3rd annual University of Washington Environmental Innovation Challenge invented solutions to some of the world’s most pressing environmental issues. Wind energy.... Read More
Google sponsors UW Environmental Innovation Challenge
The Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Washington Foster School of Business has been awarded $20,000 from the Google Community Grants Fund... Read More
InTheWorks goes in for CARB testing
Third-party validation is a critical test of a new technology, and InTheWorks, which developed a catalytic converter for gasoline marine engines (a technology that could... Read More
Ecowell delivers on its refreshment kiosk promise
“For the Environmental Innovation Challenge in 2009, we had an old computer server rack we’d dummied up to look like a vending kiosk that served... Read More
2009 grand-prize winner HydroSense is acquired by Belkin International
“HydroSense won the grand prize at the inaugural Environmental Innovation Challenge in April 2009 with a water-usage monitoring technology that screws onto a single valve... Read More
Winners of UW Environmental Innovation Challenge
“It’s like a science fair on steroids.” That comment by judge and venture capitalist Loretta Little (of WRF Capital) captured the essence of the University... Read More
Center funds $35,000 in clean-tech prototype development
“We have funding available.” Those are four words that are bound to attract student attention. For the University of Washington’s Environmental Innovation Challenge, student teams... Read More