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Eric Kazyak lab tour fall 2023

Three new electrochemistry research labs open exciting opportunities for ME students

Three new electrochemistry-focused research labs are now open in Mechanical Engineering (ME), led by ME faculty members Eric Kazyak, Luca Mastropasqua and James Pikul. These labs are working together on…

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July 16, 2024

Grand lab opening ceremony

This April, we hosted the grand lab opening of the John C. Kuetemeyer Instructional Laboratories with many donors and alumni in attendance. If you didn’t get a chance to make…

Tom and Tim Smart
July 8, 2024

Spotlight on Badger Alumni: Mechanical Engineers Tom & Tim Smart

The Smart Brothers, Tom BSME’1976 and Tim BSME’1980, both credit their father E. Allen Smart for inspiring their paths into Mechanical Engineering. He completed both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees…

alumnus Scott Weisberg, left, sits with PML LLC founder Peter Lehrer
June 21, 2024

CEE alumnus Weisberg rises to executive role at PML LLC

University of Wisconsin-Madison civil and environmental engineering alumnus Scott Weisberg has been promoted to a leading executive role at PML LLC. Weisberg (BSCEE ‘02) is a Construction Engineering and Management…

black and white professional headshot, very close-up, man wearing glasses
June 12, 2024

Alumni Spotlight: Tampa Bay Buccaneers executive Atul Khosla

UW-ISyE alumnus Atul Khosla is the chief commercial officer for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. His is a fascinating example of the endless possibilities available with a degree in industrial engineering.

UW-Madison alumni Ryan Waddington and Michael Urynowicz pose in front of a mountain.
June 10, 2024

Badger alumni reimagine renewable energy and carbon capture technology

The decision to enroll at UW-Madison was a pivotal one for Ryan Waddington and Michael Urynowicz. It brought two Badgers a lifelong friendship and together they formed Cowboy Clean Fuels…

Sydney B. Williams and family
May 29, 2024

Remembering Sidney B. Williams Jr.

Sidney B. Williams Jr. (BSChE’61, JD’67), born December 31, 1935, peacefully passed away at the Health Center of Friendship Village in Kalamazoo, Mich., on Sunday, May 5, 2024. (Full obituary)…

Juan Esparza, Breanna Buck, Nicole Kunz, Justin Benz
May 13, 2024

Inaugural ECE Capstone Design event highlights student innovation

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison hosted its first ECE Capstone Design Open House on May 3, 2024. Twenty-two student teams from three…

May 7, 2024

Lab Grand Opening Celebration wrap up

The Grand Opening Celebration for the John C. Kuetemeyer Instructional Laboratories has been the culmination of multiple years of hard work, fundraising and construction to transform the summer lab space…

Michael Sohn ME
April 25, 2024

Student Spotlight: Graduating Senior Michael Sohn

Michael Sohn is graduating in spring 2024 and…heading right back to the classroom in the fall when he begins medical school at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He’s excited…

Class photo of students in the first summer lab session in the summer of 1994
April 17, 2024

Spotlight on Badger Alumni: chemical engineer Joe Moidl

Joe Moidl (BSChE ’94) is now the Vice President of Innovation, Technology and Quality at General Mills, but he was once a Badger engineering student, attending lectures and having a…