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Devesh Ranjan

Ranjan’s reflections

Through Ranjan’s Reflections, Dean Devesh Ranjan opens a window into the ideas driving his bold agenda for our college and his vision for how engineering can shape our tomorrow.

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Jeffrey Linderoth
April 8, 2026

Linderoth earns ONR grant to optimize decision-making aids

Jeffrey Linderoth, the Harvey D. Spangler Professor of industrial and systems engineering, will lead a new project funded by the Office of Naval Research to build automated decision tools to…

MBSE Team (left to right): Hasnaa Ouidadi (Postdoctoral Scholar), Kaibo Liu (Professor), Ying Fu (PhD Student), Xuepeng Jiang (PhD Student), Hantang Qin (Associate Professor), Shiyu Zhou (Professor)
March 30, 2026

UW–Madison Industrial and Systems Engineering Researchers Lead AI & Systems Integration for Major DOE Fusion Award

UW–Madison Industrial and Systems Engineering researchers are leading AI and systems engineering work for a major U.S. Department of Energy fusion project. Their efforts are helping advance new fusion technologies for clean, reliable energy.

UW Crest with engineering background
March 20, 2026

UW-Madison engineers receive $3 million in DOE nuclear research awards

The U.S. Department of Energy recently awarded $33.9 million through its Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) in 2025 to support university-led nuclear energy research and development projects, including a total of $3 million for three projects led by University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers.

Kiffer Creveling
March 12, 2026

New Assistant Teaching Faculty: Kiffer Creveling

Christopher ‘Kiffer’ Creveling joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering as Assistant Teaching Faculty in January 2026! Creveling completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Utah where he…

Mahvi and Wagner SEL
March 9, 2026

Allison Mahvi and Mike Wagner Named Co-Directors of the Solar Energy Laboratory

The UW-Madison Solar Energy Laboratory (SEL) has announced that Allison Mahvi and Mike Wagner will serve as the lab’s new Co-Directors, continuing SEL’s long tradition of collaborative leadership and impactful…

UW Crest with engineering background
March 6, 2026

Spring 2026 Faustin-Prinz Research Fellowship Awardees

The Department of Mechanical Engineering is excited to announce the Spring/Fall 2026 Faustin Prinz Fellowship Recipients. This fellowship supports undergraduate Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics students who want to develop…

Associate Professor Juliana Pacheco Duarte poses in the new PHILUS facility alongside PhD student Cole Dunbar and Dr. Donkoan Hwang.
February 17, 2026

New research facility to support nuclear reactor power uprates

The new PHILUS facility is generating crucial data to support safely expanding the operating capacity of current U.S. nuclear power plants.

Graduate student Connor Moreno and his advisor, Professor and Department Chair Paul Wilson, discuss his latest research in modeling stellarators
February 10, 2026

Grad student develops software used by fusion startups to automate stellarator design

Connor Moreno, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has developed software tools that are helping leading fusion companies design the first commercially viable fusion power plants.

Nuclear war effects modeling from Sebastien Philippe's research group
February 4, 2026

Sébastien Philippe receives over $550,000 to advance nuclear war effects modeling

UW–Madison has received over $550,000 to support the development of open, science-based tools for understanding the consequences of nuclear weapons use.

Yeonghoon Jin, Tanuj Kumar, Minjeong Kim, Mikhail Kats, and Chenghao Wan by MRS sign
December 18, 2025

ECE researchers shine at Materials Research Society meeting

UW–Madison Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) students, alumnus, postdoctoral researcher, and faculty from UW–Madison earned major recognition at the recent Materials Research Society (MRS) meeting, highlighting the department’s…