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Concrete Canoe team members work together on building their 2023 competition boat.

Student Org Spotlight: UW-Madison Concrete Canoe

The UW-Madison Concrete Canoe team finished strong at the 2023 regional competition in Duluth, Minnesota this spring, taking second place overall, second place in prototype design, and second place in…

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Juliana Pacheco Duarte
September 25, 2023

Duarte leads NRC-backed research project

Juliana Pacheco Duarte, an assistant professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will lead a project to develop a new methodology for…

Allison Mahvi
September 18, 2023

Mahvi awarded $2.5M from DOE for thermal energy storage solutions

Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Allison Mahvi was recently awarded a $2.5M grant from the Department of Energy on developing HVAC-integrated thermal energy storage systems. In the project, Mahvi is collaborating…

Shiyu Zhou
September 15, 2023

Zhou leads NSF-backed multistage manufacturing monitoring research

Shiyu Zhou, a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin, will lead a project to develop new methods for monitoring product quality and…

Associate Professor Megan McClean and PhD student Zack Harmer
September 5, 2023

McClean receives fresh MIRA funding

Megan McClean, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has earned renewed funding from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for her work elucidating the…

UW Crest with engineering background
August 31, 2023

UW-Madison engineers receive $4.6M in DOE nuclear research awards

The U.S. Department of Energy recently awarded more than $41.2 million through its Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) to support university-led nuclear energy research and development projects, including a total…

Hantang Qin
August 29, 2023

Qin leads research on manufacturing 3D photonic structures

Hantang Qin, an assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will lead a new project to develop a novel manufacturing platform to fabricate 3D photonic…

Jennifer Choy and Mikhail Kats
August 23, 2023

Choy leads team awarded National Science Foundation Quantum Sensing Challenge Grant

The National Science Foundation has selected a proposal “Compact and robust quantum atomic sensors for timekeeping and inertial sensing” by an interdisciplinary team led by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers for…

George Huber in the lab with researcher Raka Dastidar
June 28, 2023

Two College of Engineering startups receive Discovery to Product funding

Two startup companies based in the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering have received funding through the Discovery to Product (D2P) State Economic Engagement and Development program. The annual program…

Assistant Professor Hannah Blum
June 12, 2023

Blum teams up with the Steel Deck Institute to improve building safety

Dr. Hannah Blum is working with the Steel Deck Institute (SDI) to improve the safety and reliability of steel roofing and floor decks that are common in buildings. Recently, two…

Carla Michini
June 5, 2023

Michini lands DoD grant to boost computation capabilities

Carla Michini, an assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will lead a collaborative, Department of Defense-funded project to develop new computational tools to bolster…