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Badger Solar Racing Car with student standing behind

Cross-college collab drives innovation: Badger Solar Racing

Badger Solar Racing is a team of dedicated undergraduate and graduate students from across the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison committed to building a solar-powered car for…

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Matt Gebbie and Ryan Cashen in the lab
October 10, 2024

DURIP grant will allow Gebbie lab to acquire cutting-edge microscope

Matthew Gebbie, Conway Assistant Professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a grant from the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) to acquire a…

UW Crest with engineering background
October 8, 2024

CHESS continues work on mental health, substance-use disorder treatment with $17M in federal grants

The Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies (CHESS), based in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a series of federal grants totaling…

October 7, 2024

UW team earns $2.5 million ARPA-E H2SENSE award

Mechanical Engineering Professor Scott Sanders and Scientist Matthias Beuting are leading a UW-Madison team that aims to develop novel sensors for detecting hydrogen gas leaks.  The team also includes Mechanical…

Allison Mahvi
October 3, 2024

Mahvi team awarded DOE funds for tech to decarbonize buildings

Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Allison Mahvi was recently selected for a $2M award from the Department of Energy to develop a more sustainable heat pump that can replace existing, less…

September 25, 2024

ECE spinoff company selected for Discovery to Product SEED grant

University of Wisconsin-Madison electrical and computer engineering professors Luke Mawst, the Grainger STAR Professor in Engineering, and Dan Botez, Philip Dunham Reed Professor, are one of seven teams from across…

Phil Terrien and Matt Knoespel
September 24, 2024

BME spinoffs earn SEED funding

Two companies with ties to the UW-Madison Department of Biomedical Engineering are among the funding recipients of the annual State Economic Engagement and Development (SEED) program. The first is Atrility…

Qiaomin Xie
September 19, 2024

Xie earns NSF grant to improve decision-making in complex systems

Qiaomin Xie, an assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will lead a National Science Foundation-funded research project to bolster the algorithms and theory behind…

UW Crest with engineering background
September 5, 2024

Prabhakar named 2024-25 Fulbright Scholar

Pavana Prabhakar, the Charles G. Salmon Associate Professor in the departments of civil and environmental engineering and mechanical engineering, has been named a 2024-25 Fulbright Scholar. Prabhakar is a leader…

UW Crest with engineering background
August 16, 2024

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

The U.S. Department of Energy awarded more than $44 million through its Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) in 2024 to support university-led nuclear energy research and development projects, including a…

Hantang Qin
August 6, 2024

Qin lands early stage NSF grant for transfer learning project

Hantang Qin, an assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received an Early-Concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) from the National Science Foundation to…