UW environmental innovation wows judges
Judges were supposed to walk into the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall on March 29, pick up their folders and grab a seat. But the 23 prototypes were... Read More
Undergrad learns from losing and winning a competition
Guest post by James Barger, UW engineering senior and UW Environmental Innovation Challenge co-chair, 2012, Grand Prize team member, UW Environmental Innovation Challenge 2011 “It is... Read More
Clean-technology winners awarded $22,500 in 2012
If our future will be driven by clean-tech innovation, universities are the laboratories for a green economy. University of Washington engineering and business teams won... Read More
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
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