On January 25, 2024, University of Washington Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Tricia Serio visited BARC on Thursday to learn more about the importance of the collaboration to the educational experience at UW. During the interactive tour, BARC students in mechanical engineering, Jonas Beachy (second-year Ph.D.), Mohammed Safwat (second-year Ph.D.), Wade Marquette (fourth-year Ph.D.), and Ricardo Herrera (M.S. student) discussed the work in BARC as well as their research.
BARC is a novel approach to industry collaboration. College of Engineering Dean Nancy Allbritton and Vice Dean Jihui Yang joined the tour and talked about the background of BARC. BARC Director and Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Xu Chen, Mechanical Engineering Chair and Professor Alberto Aliseda, and Materials Science and Engineering Chair and Professor Di Xiao, along with Boeing executives Scott Gunther and Shannon Dong, talked about the benefits of BARC, specifically the value to student research and industry growth. Â
