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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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UW Crest with engineering background
April 1, 2024

New collaborative DARPA award for Krishnan Suresh

Congratulations to Mead Witter Foundation Professor of Mechanical Engineering Krishnan Suresh on his recent award from DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)! DARPA’s METALS program, short for Multiobjective Engineering and…

Hantang Qin lab I-Corps project team
February 28, 2024

Qin secures I-Corps funding for in-space printing tech

Hantang Qin, an assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovation Corps grant to support his lab’s work…

D2P mentor Aimee Arnoldussen (left) with Assistant Professor Josh Roth
December 20, 2023

Engineering faculty awarded Discovery to Product PRIME grants

Three Department of Mechanical Engineering faculty members have received funding from Discovery to Product’s (D2P) Piloting Research Innovation & Market Exploration (PRIME) grant program. The PRIME funding will allow the…

Ranjana Mehta
November 10, 2023

Mehta earns grants from National Academies, NASA

Ranjana Mehta, a professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will use two new grants to address worker fatigue in the offshore energy sector and study…

palm of plastic pieces
November 7, 2023

CBE researchers receive grant to scale up new recycling technique

The REMADE Institute, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) public-private partnership, has awarded a project led by engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison $600,000 for a pilot-scale plant to demonstrate…

UW Crest with engineering background
November 1, 2023

Pujara earns environmental protection and stewardship fellowship

Nimish Pujara, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been awarded an Early-Career Research Fellowship in Environmental Protection and Stewardship. The Gulf Research Program of the National Academies…

Notbohm cell velocities packs
October 12, 2023

Notbohm secures $1.9M NIH award studying the mechanics of cell motion

Congratulations to Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Jacob Notbohm on his prestigious new R35 award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Through his project, ‘Revealing forces driving collective cell migration,’…

Kaibo Liu
October 5, 2023

Liu receives ONR grant to boost predictive maintenance with data science

Kaibo Liu, a professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will lead a new research project to develop artificial intelligence techniques to aid predictive maintenance in…

Xiaoping Qian
October 4, 2023

New $3.7M DOE grant awarded to Qian and team

Congratulations to Mechanical Engineering’s Elmer R. and Janet Ambach Kaiser Professor and Associate Chair for Research Xiaoping Qian on his recently accepted award from the Department of Energy! This project…

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…