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Mikhail Kats wins prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

Mikhail Kats, the Jack St. Clair Kilby and Antoine-Bascom Professor in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and…

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The UW-Madison 2025 ECIC team, comprised of students, faculty, and mentors
April 25, 2025

Badgers take on Design-build project in ECIC 2025

The 2025 Electrical Contracting Innovation Challenge (ECIC) is underway and Badger engineers are ready to compete. This year’s competition focuses on the electrical design of an office and warehouse building….

Kenzie Burns standing in front of a wooded landscape
April 16, 2025

From cow poop to purpose: Curiosity sparks career for Kenzie Burns

Kenzie Burns doesn’t shy away from stepping outside of her comfort zone—she pushes forward with curiosity—shaping her life in new and unexpected ways. “I like to joke that I cannot…

UW Crest with engineering background
April 8, 2025

UW-Madison engineering graduate programs ranked highly by U.S. News

University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering graduate programs are once again ranked among the nation’s best in the 2025 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools.” The UW-Madison College…

Hongyan Mei
April 2, 2025

Postdoctoral Scholar Hongyan Mei awarded Schmidt Science Fellowship

Hongyan (May) Mei, a recent PhD graduate and current postdoctoral scholar in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been awarded a 2025 Schmidt Science Fellowship. The highly…

March 31, 2025

Startup founded by PhD student Sanket Deshpande joins the Chicago Quantum Exchange

Dirac Labs, a Madison, Wisconsin–based startup that is leveraging quantum sensing and nanophotonics research to develop positioning, tracking, and navigation technologies for autonomous vehicles and other applications, has joined the Chicago…

ISyE PhD Candidate Weijun Shen
March 5, 2025

PhD student Shen honored for teaching

Weijun Shen, a PhD student in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, is among 31 University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate students to receive a 2024-25 Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Award. Shen,…

March 5, 2025

ECE graduate student Talha Sultan wins campus Capstone Teaching Award

Talha Sultan, an electrical and computer engineering PhD student working in the lab of Associate Professor Andreas Velten, is the recipient of a Capstone Teaching Award sponsored by the Graduate…

Stephanie Beth Hernández Hernández presenting her research
February 6, 2025

Meet grad student Stephanie Beth Hernández Hernández: Studying biomechanics to help improve rehabilitation treatments

Stephanie Beth Hernández Hernández is a PhD student in mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A Graduate Engineering Research Scholar (GERS), she is advised by Peter Adamczyk, Mead Witter…

Brightfield photograph of the free-standing membrane Bucky metasurface composed of hundreds of thousands of tilted rod voids
February 5, 2025

Biomedical engineers turn to Bucky Badger to show off metasurface biosensor

When Filiz Yesilkoy and her University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate students set out to demonstrate the capabilities of their optical metasurfaces, they wanted to do it with a little school spirit….

January 30, 2025

Two ECE students advance to Three-Minute Thesis finals

Two PhD students in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are among nine graduate students who have advanced to the campus finals of the…